|
Health Commissioner Julia
Sheen is pleased to announce that the Department’s
Family Planning Program will host the first in a series
of outreach activities in various communities
territorywide beginning Saturday.
The outreach, billed
“Summer Splash 2010” will be held from 9 a.m. to 1
p.m. on Saturday, June 19, 2010, at the Oswald Harris
Court Community Center on St. Thomas in collaboration
with HOPE Inc. and the Department’s Immunization and
STD/TB/HIV programs.
“The Family Planning
Program is doing this with the goal to educate
residents, especially teens, about the various services
that we offer and that they can take advantage of,”
Sheen said. “We are very excited to kick off this
program, which is part of our federal mandate as well as
an initiative by the Governor to make health care
services available and accessible to all.”
Mercedes Reyes,
Territorial Administrator for Family Planning, said the
program hopes to accomplish a myriad of objectives,
chief among them is increasing teen participation as
well as the comfort level of teens and their parents
with the program’s clinic services.
“We also want to
increase the community awareness on reproductive health
services and STD/HIV prevention as well as decrease
unplanned pregnancy and STD/HIV rate among teens,”
Reyes said.
In addition to scheduling
appointments to clinic services, the following free
services/screenings will be available:
- Gynecological exams
- STD/HIV/Testing and
counseling
- Pregnancy testing and
counseling
- Family Planning
counseling to include prescription of birth control
methods
- Immunizations (to
include Gardasil and Tetanus)
|
