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Purpose (all are below)
Project Design
Project Delivery
Project Continuing Education Activities
Other Project Activities

"Supporting the Effectiveness of the Wisconsin Family Planning Program under a grant from the Wisconsin Division of Public Health."

Purpose
The purpose of the WI Training and Support Services Project is to provide training, continuing education and technical assistance to current and new family planning service providers in order to improve and maintain the quality and cost-effectiveness of services provided through community-based family planning programs. Through this purpose Health Care Education and Training believes the following benefits will be derived from quality support services:

Wisconsin Department of Public Health's goals and guiding principles are supported.

Well trained and educated staff and volunteers improves the delivery of family planning services to persons from low-income families and other persons desiring such services thus ensuring safe and healthful childbearing.

A flexible and responsive training and communication system insures family planning service providers are capable of responding to an ever-changing health care delivery system and the emerging issues.

Training and technical assistance are tools for community-based family planning agencies to use to improve management systems, alleviate management problems, improve patient recruitment and retention and enhance the quality of family planning medical, educational and counseling services offered.

Training, education and enhanced communication systems are tools for the DPH-Family Planning Program to use as ways to introduce Program Requirements and Standards of Practice.

Training plans and curricula developed in partnership with policy makers and community- based organizations produce training serving the needs and interests of staff and therefore the needs of family planning patients, particularly low-income and minority clients.

Quality staff training ensures family planning providers achieve state goals and objectives, particularly those objectives relating to reducing unintended pregnancies, reducing STD rates and achieving diversity in the health care work force.

Quality training and technical assistance ensures family planning providers are on the "cutting edge" of technology and service delivery.

Project Design
The project design relies heavily on the principles of community-wide leadership to create a quality support services system that is useful, accessible and valued by the family planning providers in Wisconsin. In addition, the design and activities in this project will be delivered in a manner that encourages self-sufficiency of the family planning community for collaborating and assisting each other rather than dependence on the WI Training and Support Services Project for providing all the answers.

Training needs and priorities are constantly changing with the dynamics of the health care system. HCET determines training needs and priorities by obtaining input from a number of sources:

Input from DPH (state priorities). These state priorities are based on new program initiatives, contract initiatives and standards of practice.

Input from community based programs. HCET obtains input both formally, through the WFPP advisory committee, and informally through key informants and conversations.

Input from training needs assessment questionnaires. Needs questionnaires are circulated. The questionnaires will be designed based on evaluation feedback and WFPP advisory committee input. Questionnaire results are compared to input from other needs assessment mechanisms.

Input feedback from workshop evaluations. There will be space on each workshop's evaluation form to give input on future workshop topics. This information is used for understanding the interest levels of trainees for specific topics.

Input from the WFPP advisory committee which is representative of family planning providers across the state.

Project Delivery
HCET is an organization that specializes in the delivery of high quality training, education and technical assistance in the women's reproductive health field. They will utilize the following delivery modalities for this project.

Traditional Workshops. With the assistance WFPP advisory committee, HCET will identify workshop topics that require or will be enhanced by face-to-face training. Traditional workshops are delivered in a manner than causes as little disruption to clinic delivery as possible by scheduling sessions in locations throughout the state.

Satellite Broadcasts. HCET will assist in the coordination and development of satellite broadcasts that are tailored to the needs of Wisconsin family planning providers.

Web Site Delivery. A special web page has been established for this project that will be linked to HCET's current web site. The Support Services web site serves several purposes: a) electronic workshop registration, b) listing of reference and resource materials, c) Listing of WI FP clinics, and d) Reference materials.

Audio Programs. HCET developes and delivers LearningLink audio programs. Audio teleconferences allow listeners to participate from county extension sites at no charge.

Listserv Capability. A Wisconsin Family Planning Listserv has been established. The Listserv provides the capability for any listed member (family planning providers in Wisconsin) to ask a question or broadcast a message to all other individuals in the system.

Self-Paced Learning Modules. HCET will identify and have available as a resource tool, a variety of self-paced video/manual learning modules. These modules will be listed in a resource pamphlet as well as listed on the web site on the Internet

Project Continuing Education Activities
The WFPP Project will organize continuing education for clinic and community education personnel in publicly supported family planning programs including the following key areas:

Management and short-term care coordination of patients with abnormal pap tests.
Family planning/reproductive health privacy and confidentiality.
STD services with emphasis on Chlamydia based upon the Region V Infertility Prevention Guidelines.
Contraceptive services.
Pregnancy testing services.
Emergency contraception.
Prescription contraception with option of deferred exam.
Practice in compliance with recognized standards identified in the Family Planning/Reproductive Health/EIDP Quality Criteria.
WI Medicaid Family Planning Waiver Program.

Other Project Activities
Provide updated family planning and related reproductive health policy and protocols, training, and technical assistance to Title X, Title V, or GPR-funded family planning providers to be used as a reference in development of program/clinic-specific policies.

Provide updated family planning and related reproductive health quality assurance materials, training, and technical assistance to Title X, Title V, or GPR-funded family planning providers.

Provide technical assistance with procurement of low-cost supplies.

Assist the Infertiity Prevention Project is to monitor and measure rates of infection, chlamydial infection risk factors within the family planning patient population, the sensitivity of high-risk screening criteria for identifying patients at high-risk of infection, index patient and contact treatment rates, and intervention methods for patients at high-risk of reinfection.

Provide supplies to support infertility prevention services. Procure and distribute medications and supplies to all Title X, Title V, or GPR-funded family planning programs for treatment of patients diagnosed with chlamydial infection and their partners.

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