NEWS FROM POWER TO DECIDE



Get Ready to Shout #ThxBirthControl

This year the nation is saying #ThxBirthControl on Wednesday, November 15. Your voice, passion, and participation will help make this Thanks, Birth Control Day the best yet. Join the conversation across social media by using the hashtag #ThxBirthControl.  To help you get ready we’ve updated our toolkit with new graphics, interesting data, and suggested social language to make sharing your birth control love easy. 

Special thanks to our sponsors, Bayer, the JPB Foundation, Plan B, DiPaola Foundation, and Mayne Pharma. Their contributions – and yours – make our work possible. 

Join us on November 15! Together we can show everyone that affordable and accessible birth control is basic health care that everyone deserves access to. 

Free Training on Foundations in Human-Centered Design

We are now offering a free, introductory training on human-centered design, also called design thinking. The training focuses on how it has been used to develop interventions to improve sexual and reproductive well-being. The training includes information about the human-centered design process, as well as tools and strategies that are used in human-centered design, and real stories of how this approach has been used in the sexual and reproductive health field. Begin the course today!



Power Player

We’re committed to uplifting the many individuals championing reproductive well-being. This month’s Power Player is author Crystal Maldonado. Read her story.

New Five-Year Award to Evaluate ‘Let’s Talk Birth Control’

Power to Decide was recently awarded a 5-year cooperative agreement from the Office of Population Affairs to rigorously evaluate Let’s Talk Birth Control, a contraceptive decision-support intervention. Let’s Talk includes three core components: a printed contraceptive decision aid with a QR code that links to the Method Explorer page on Bedsider; the Bedsider Method Explorer, which includes digital information on the full range of contraceptive methods and a personalized method comparison feature; and an online training for providers on patient-centered contraceptive counseling. 

To date, there are few proven short-duration, clinic-based interventions. Our evaluation of Let’s Talk has the potential to address this notable gap. We hope our evaluation will result in new evidence-based interventions to support adolescent sexual and reproductive health.