The Wyoming Health Council (WHC), a 501 (c) 3 private, nonprofit organization located in Cheyenne, Wyoming, incorporated in 1990 to serve as Wyoming's Title X family planning grantee, is submitting this application for federal funding to continue into our 29th year of serving as Wyoming's Title X family planning grantee, and to contract with 10 sub-recipient agencies that will provide core family planning and related preventive health care services throughout Wyoming,with priority for serving clients living with low incomes. WHC proposes to conduct all Title X family planning activities in compliance with Title X statute, program requirements, legislative mandates, and program regulations. WHC is applying for funding for 3 years, from April 1, 2019-March 31, 2022. WHC proposes to continue to provide administrative, clinical, and fiscal management of Title X funds to facilitate voluntary family planning services in clinics throughout Wyoming that offer a broad range of acceptable and effective family planning methods and services, including hormonal methods, barrier methods, and/or permanent sterilization, sexual risk avoidance counseling and education, especially for adolescents, and instruction in fertility awareness-based methods, assuring that the broad range does not include abortion as a method of family planning. Services offered at Wyoming's Title X clinics include preconception counseling, including basic infertility services, pregnancy testing and counseling, breast and cervical cancer screening and referral, STD prevention education, screening and treatment, and HIV testing and referral to care, as well as screening and referral for substance abuse, mental health needs, intimate partner violence, smoking, and obesity. The materials in this application are written in direct alignment with the funding opportunity announcement. The project narrative follows the 17 narrative topics and provides a clear and concise descriptio
n of the proposed project. The workplan outlines 10 goals that align with the 10 Key Issues while integrating measurable activities to assist us as we continually seek to provide a diversity of options for clients with the intention of improving overall service provision, increasing the number of clients served in innovative ways that empower voices of families and populations served as direction setters and change agents for our program development, and continuing to promote the role of family planning in creating opportunities for optimal overall health among individuals, couples, families, and communities. We propose additional innovations in contracting with Wyoming's first Title X clinic in a Federally Qualified Health Center, connecting meaningfully with faith community nurses to provide community education with adolescents, couples, and families, and continuing to develop our innovative tool for subrecipient support and monitoring, the electronic WHC Title X Toolkit and Deliverables Tracking System.