Welcome to the Special Projects Section of the Family Planning Council!
Established in 1990, the aim of the Special Projects Department is to assist the Family Planning Council in fulfilling its overall mission. Specifically, this department is charged with developing and implementing programs that go beyond conventional family planning services to serve non-traditional clients.
Through various contracts and programs, the Special Projects Department supports both medical services and social services to people living throughout the five county Philadelphia area.
Currently, the Special Projects Department oversees the following programs:
AmeriChoice Community Partnership
The HealthyWoman Project
Parenting Education Program (PEP)
Healthy Lifestyles Program (HELP)
HIV Aftercare
Girls of Promise
Youth of Promise Coalition
AmeriChoice and FPC Community Partnership
AmeriChoice of Pennsylvania, Inc. and the Family Planning Council entered into a partnership in 2007 in an effort to invigorate both AmeriChoice’s and the Council’s visibility to and connection with the communities served by both organizations. Many of the patients seen at family planning provider sites throughout the city utilize AmeriChoice as their health insurance provider, making this an optimal partnership.
The project entails having both entities work together to review reporting data from family planning providers in order to identify and assess underutilization of services. Once determined, the partners will engage in strategic outreach and education efforts to inform AmeriChoice members about important health issues and motivate them to access the care. For more information click here.
The Healthy Woman Project
This program has been part of the Council's programs since 1995 and is funded through the Pennsylvania Department of Health and the City of Philadelphia Health Department.HealthyWoman provides breast and cervical cancer screening to low-income, uninsured or underinsured women age 40 and over in Philadelphia and Chester county.
Services include:
- breast self-exam education
- clinical breast exams
- mammograms
- pelvic exams
- pap tests
- breast biopsies
- case management follow-up
Parenting Education Program (PEP)
PEP is a parenting skills development program for women in the Chester and Delaware County prisons. Specifically, these services are offered to pregnant and parenting inmates in both individual and group counseling sessions.
Topics covered include:
- the effects of incarceration on family life,
- substance abuse
- domestic violence
- family planning
- prevention of sexually transmitted diseases including HIV
- prenatal care
- and child abuse and neglect prevention.
The program emphasizes positive parenting skills and family re-unification.
Healthy Lifestyles Program (HELP)
HELP is funded by the Philadelphia AIDS Consortium and provides information to incarcerated women in the Chester and Delaware County prisons about STD and HIV transmission.
This program empowers women to engage in risk-reduction sexual practices while incarcerated and upon their release from prison. Group and individual counseling is offered.
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For more information on these programs or the Special Projects Department, email us at SpecialProjects@familyplanning.org
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