Wednesday, February 5, 2025
2/5/2025
Project Abstract: The overarching goal of Vermont’s Title X Program is to provide high quality clinical family planning and related preventive health services, outreach, education, and counseling to Vermonters who would otherwise not have access, with a special focus on low-income and rural populations, to ensure the health and well-being of all Vermonters. The Vermont Department of Health has been collaborating with Vermont’s family planning service delivery system for more than 40 years to deliver Title X services. The Health Department has a proven record of excellent performance and compliance with Title X and state rules, and commitment to serving all Vermonters with a special attention to underserved populations. Vermont proposes to achieve this goal through the selection of a qualified subrecipient to provide high-quality clinical services to a minimum of 9,000 individuals across 10 health centers throughout the state located in rural towns and communities. All family planning and related preventive health services will be provided at a sliding fee scale, based on a patient’s ability to pay. Vermont’s Title X program will outreach to underserved populations in need of family planning and related services, including low-income, adolescent, LGBTQ, and English language learners. Vermont’s Title X project will be carried input in accordance with the OPA Program Priorities: • Advance health equity through the delivery of Title X services • Improve and expand access to Title X services • Deliver Title X services of the highest quality • Implement a quality improvement and quality assurance (QI/QA) plan The Vermont Title X network will ensure access to and encourage use of a broad range of acceptable and effective medically approved family planning methods, provide education to all patients and the community on family planning and related preventive health issues and reproductive life planning, and expand access to related preventive health services, breast & cervical cancer screening, STI and HIV prevention education, testing and referrals. Adolescents will receive confidential services in a timely manner and will receive guidance on family participation in decision-making and counseling on sexual coercion. Vermont’s Title X program will continue to develop formal linkages and partnerships with primary care providers, as well as other health and social service providers, to ensure that all Title X family planning service users have access to well-coordinated and comprehensive primary care. Finally, Vermont’s Title X program will continue to work collaboratively with leaders at the local and state levels to inform on family planning and reproductive health services as part of the broader health care system.
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