CCBH Family Planning Clinic

My experience thus far at Cuyahoga County Board of Health (CCBH) has been a very enjoyable and educational one. My group and I are working very hard at advertising the “My Life, My Body” Family Planning Clinic in the Parma area. This Clinic is a Title X Clinic, meaning it is governmentally funded so that no individual may be turned away from services or care. The Clinic provides low-cost to free birth control options ranging from the pill to the intrauterine device (IUD) to condoms and barrier methods, HIV/STD testing, pregnancy testing, counseling services, and countless educational resources. Our site coordination, Sandi Hoch, is very passionate about the topic and is constantly looking for ways to better incorporate us into the world of public health. My group and I have gone on Newborn Baby, Help Me Grow, and environmental health visits with different professionals working at CCBH. We have shadowed Sandi for a day or two in the Family Planning Clinic, talking with her about how to better reach teenagers at risk for unintended pregnancy and HIV/STDs. We will also be shadowing a nurse in the immunization clinic at CCBH in the near future. Our advertising for the Family Planning Clinic has been ongoing. We have a booth at Tri-C West twice a week, have visited CWRU two times, have hung up flyers at more than 100 business in the Parma area, put CCBH and the Family Planning Clinic on Googlemaps, and uploaded information on radio stations community boards and events. We look forward to doing more outreach for CCBH…we hope to reach 300 businesses!