Reaching Sexually Active Youth with Family Planning Services: Learning from Experience and Moving Forward

Tuesday, November 18, 2003, Arlington, VA

To view the PowerPoint slides presented, please click on the appropriate session title on the meeting agenda below.

I. Meeting family planning needs of sexually active youth: an introduction

Irina Yacobson, YouthNet/FHI

II. Learning from experience 

Moderator: Marcia Townsend

Part One

• IPPF, lessons learned from Dutch adolescent programs. Doortje Braeken, IPPF
• Family Planning Association (FPA), Trinidad and Tobago. Dona Da Costa Martinez, FPA
• National Adolescent Friendly Clinic Initiative, South Africa. Kim Eva Dickson, Reproductive Health Research Unit

Part Two

• Youth Now, Jamaica. Pauline Russell-Brown, Youth Now
• Top Reseau Project, Madagascar. Josselyn Neukom, PSI
• Youth-friendly services as a key component of the African Youth Alliance. Judy Senderowitz, Pathfinder International 

III. Discussion of papers and brainstorming on how to meet the family planning service needs of youth

Moderator: Hally Mahler, YouthNet/FHI

IV. Youth-friendly service (YFS)

tools

Moderator: Shyam Thapa, YouthNet/FHI

• Pathfinder International/FOCUS/AYA. Judy Senderowitz
  • Assessing and planning for YFS (FOCUS)
  • Six recent AYA/Pathfinder tools:
    1. Training service providers in YFS
    2. Assessment of YFS in clinic settings
    3. Assessment of community-based YFS (draft)
    4. Technical guidance series on use of the YFS assessment tool
    5. Certification tool (ie., minimum standards) (draft)
    6. Job aids for service providers on family planning methods (with emphasis on appropriateness for youth)
• YouthNet/FHI/Save the Children. Irina Yacobson
  • Adolescent RH Provider Manual (FHI)
  • YouthNet Youth Issues Paper on Social Franchising (YouthNet�Steve LaVake)
  • Youth-defined Quality of Services (Save the Children)
  • Reproductive Health of Young Adults Module (YouthNet)
• WHO. Jane Ferguson
  • Pre-service training materials on adolescent health and development for healthcare providers (WHO)
  • Orientation program on adolescent health and development for healthcare providers (WHO)
  • Adolescent-friendly health services (AFHS): an agenda for change (advocacy document, WHO)
  • Job aids on adolescent health and development for healthcare providers (WHO)
  • AFHS: Making it happen (a resource document for improving the quality of health services to adolescents, WHO)
  • Adolescent-friendly health services: an impact model to evaluate their effectiveness and cost (WHO)
• PATH. Jolene Beitz
  • Youth-friendly pharmacies (PATH)

V. Where do we go from here?

What are the current gaps in policies, political will, programs, provider attitudes, resources, and donor/cooperating agency coordination that are restricting access of youth to family planning services?

Facilitator: Pauline Russell-Brown

Should more emphasis be put on the private/commercial/NGO sectors rather than public health clinics?

Facilitator: Barbara Addy

Suggestions for what different organizations, including YouthNet, can contribute to moving this area forward. Facilitator: Doortje Braeken

VI. Summary/Next Steps

Judy Senderowitz, Pathfinder International

Nancy Williamson, YouthNet/FHI

VII. Closing

Nancy Williamson, YouthNet/FHI