Essential Access Health (Essential Access) champions and promotes high-quality sexual and reproductive healthcare for all. For over 50 years, Essential Access has successfully partnered with the Office of Population Affairs (OPA) to promote and expand access to equitable, affordable, high-quality, client-centered family planning services for people with low incomes. Essential Access will extend and deepen this work by re-establishing Title X Family Planning Services throughout the State of Hawai¿i. Through its statewide Title X subrecipient network, Essential Access will support the delivery of comprehensive, inclusive, culturally responsive, adolescent-friendly family planning services. Essential Access requests a Title X Family Planning Services Grant of $3,000,000 to advance the Title X statute, regulations, legislative mandates, and OPA program priorities through four goals: (1) Rebuild, strengthen, and expand Hawai¿i’s Title X provider network and strategic partnerships to increase the availability of equitable, affordable, client-centered, high-quality family planning services; (2) Advance health equity through Hawai¿i’s Title X family planning program by removing barriers to access, improving the quality of care, and providing services that are client centered; (3) Support and monitor the adoption of “Providing Quality Family Planning Services: Recommendations from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the U.S. Office of Population Affairs” (QFP) recommendations and best practices in the provision of high-quality family planning care through data-driven performance metrics and high-quality improvement activities; and (4) Provide training, technical assistance, and resources to ensure access to equitable, affordable, client-centered, high-quality family planning services that comply with the Title X statute, regulations, legislative mandates, and additional program guidance, and address OPA program priorities. Essential Access wil
l address these goals by increasing the availability of family planning services to reach 26,550 Hawai¿i residents annually, with Title X family planning services provided by 16 subrecipients with 41 clinical sites. Essential Access will leverage its experience, operational and administrative infrastructure, and training expertise to select, train, support, and monitor the statewide Title X provider network; make rapid and effective use of federal funding; ensure that each Title X provider provides family planning services that adhere to QFP and nationally recognized standards of practice; collect and report all required program data and conduct quality improvement efforts; and maintain a statewide Information and Education Review Committee to ensure that Title X services and information are culturally and linguistically responsive and informed by community voices and experiences at the state and local levels.