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![]() Enhancing reproductive health services in Region III TRAINING 3 Family Planning Council 260 South Broad Street, Suite 1000 Philadelphia, PA 19102 Phone: (215) 985-2612 Fax: (215) 732-1252 E-mail: Training3@familyplanning.org Website: www.training3info.org Training 3 is supported by the Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Population Affairs and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Our History and Mission Our Services Our Programs Select Training Courses Our History & Mission Since 1981, TRAINING 3 has served as the DHHS Region III General Family Planning Regional Training Center. We are one of ten such national centers. Region III includes Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia. Our mission is to identify and respond to the training needs of family planning service providers throughout the region by designing, delivering, and evaluating the most effective training programs that support human performance improvement. Our Services Training Training is the cornerstone of TRAINING 3 services. Training is available on a broad range of family planning-related topics, and is designed and delivered to clinicians, counselors, managers, and other staff. The training focuses on providing specialized, science-based information tailored to the needs of participants. Training addresses the clinical, managerial, psychosocial, environmental, and sociopolitical issues that affect family planning staff and/or clients. Development and Performance Improvement Services TRAINING 3 guides organizations, programs, and individuals through the often difficult task of growing and changing. In addition to training, TRAINING 3 can work with you and/or your organization to learn and implement skills, make decisions, and develop systems that are supportive of, and conducive to improvement. These services include, performance consulting, coaching, meeting planning and facilitation, strategic planning, missioning and visioning, a lending library, the development of job aids and the administration of personality inventories and reports. Our Programs General Family Planning Training Supported by the Office of Population Affairs, this core training project supports Title X priorities by ensuring that Title X provider staff throughout the region have the skills, knowledge, and attitudes necessary to deliver effective, comprehensive family planning services. Training is available on a broad range of family planning topics and is designed and delivered to clinicians, counselors, managers, and other staff. The training focuses on providing specialized, science-based information tailored to the needs of recipients. Training addresses the clinical, managerial, psychosocial, environmental, and sociopolitical issues that affect family planning staff and/or clients. TRAINING 3 uses a variety of design, delivery, and evaluation methods, including performance consulting, workshops, conferences, satellite broadcasts, and technical assistance. Technical Support Also supported by the Office of Population Affairs, the scope of this project is to provide Title X grantees in Region III with expert consultation within the broad areas of organization, administration, and clinical practices. Activities resulting from this project have included assessing and improving program areas and internal management processes. Technical support also includes developing and/or improving the capacity for electronic communication and other advanced technology capacity throughout the Region. HIV Prevention Integration into Reproductive Health Settings Supported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, this project improves the integration of family planning and HIV services within reproductive health programs throughout Region III. Through performance consultation, training, and technical assistance, TRAINING 3 assists reproductive health providers with designing, implementing, and evaluating service integration plans. Integration plans address the provision of HIV screening and related services in family planning settings, as well as the provision of family planning services in HIV care settings. Promoting Adolescent Reproductive Health Also supported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, this project assists state, local, and community organizations throughout Region III with selecting, implementing, and evaluating science-based approaches to teen pregnancy prevention and adolescent reproductive health. Through performance consultation, training, and technical assistance, TRAINING 3 helps organizations build their capacities to effectively promote adolescent reproductive health and provide related services. Select Training Courses: Client-Centered Pregnancy Options Counseling This dynamic and participatory training presents an overview of client-centered counseling skills and practice work specifically useful in options counseling. It can be useful as an initial exposure to such skills or as a refresher course for more seasoned counselors. This program considers actual case studies of options counseling clients and allows participants to practice applying counseling skills to these cases. Such cases may include: a client who is frightened, ambivalent, or confused; clients who are pregnant and HIV- positive; clients seeking Emergency Contraception; women who have repeated unintended pregnancies; and clients who are minors. Participants will also have the opportunity to explore their own feelings and responses to this challenging work. Counseling Dynamics Learn how to be most effective in a counseling session. Designed for all family planning and health care staff who provide counseling services, this program teaches staff client-centered counseling concepts and skills, and ways to consolidate information to address multiple issues during a counseling session. Greeting and Meeting: How to be Fabulous at the Front Desk First impressions are everything. Front desk staff are in the precarious position of having to remain courteous and patient in situations which are often hectic and seemingly unmanageable. Front desk staff usually perform multi-faceted tasks and are depended upon to keep clinic operations running smoothly. This session helps front desk staff learn how to manage their varied tasks while exhibiting superior customer service. HIV Prevention Counseling How to Provide Excellent Interpreter Services Introduction to Family Planning
Management of Abnormal Pap Smears On-the-Job Training Partner Management Services
Partnerships in Teen Pregnancy Prevention Preventing Sexual Coercion Among Adolescents Reaching Out, Recruitment, and Retention
STD and Contraceptive Updates To Fee or Not to Fee
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