- Providers can take advantage of existing opportunities
for providing information to young adults
- With every client, the provider should ask:
- Referrals to other services and providers
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Traditional health care services can also help reach youth.
Those providing prenatal, delivery, postpartum and abortion
services have a valuable opportunity to reach young adults.
In outpatient clinics, for example, providers have an opportunity
to provide basic reproductive health information to youth and
to talk to them about their reproductive health needs. This
might be one of the few times a teenager gets such information
or has a chance to talk to a provider. In a confidential setting,
a provider could at least ask one question: "If you are
sexually active, what are you doing to prevent pregnancy and
sexually transmitted infections?"
Referrals to other service providers are very important. It
is not critical that all services be housed under one roof.
A nurse at a health post, for example, can take advantage of
supplementary resources available in the community.
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