NEWS FROM POWER TO DECIDE
It’s Nearly Thanks, Birth Control Day
On November 18, the nation celebrates #ThxBirthControl Day, 24-hours dedicated to acknowledging all the wonderful things birth control makes possible. To help you celebrate the day, we've created an online toolkit—including suggested social media language, new merchandise, and our newest gifs. You can access it here.
You can also get ready for Thanks, Birth Control day by spreading the word among friends and professional networks, buying #ThxBirthControl merchandise in our store, and making a tax-deductible donation.
One Key Question Certification Training, Now Offered Online!
One Key Question® is a pregnancy desire screening tool used by thousands of clinical and non-clinical providers across the US. Power to Decide is excited to announce trainings are now offered online.
The One Key Question Certification Training takes 4-6 hours and can be taken at any time, from any location, and covers topics such as reproductive well-being, unconscious bias in family planning, and how to successfully implement the program.
Participants can take an additional 1 to 2-hour training on how to offer high-quality, patient-centered preconception and contraception counseling and care by building personalized pathways to care. The training covers information about all contraceptive methods, and factors to consider before pregnancy.
Continuing educations credits are available to those who are interested.
Registration is available to individuals as well as groups and is appropriate for those in health care or social services settings alike. To find out more about training registration, visit the website.
Our Newest Power Womxn
We’re committed to uplifting the many individuals working to improve access to women’s reproductive health options. This month’s power womxn is Elina Berglund Scherwitzl, Co-founder and CEO of Natural Cycles. Read her story.
Updates to our Advancing Contraceptive Access Toolkit
Earlier this year, we launched a toolkit designed to help elected officials, public health officials, and advocates in their efforts to enact key state-level policies to improve access to contraception. The toolkit focuses on three policies: insurance coverage for an extended supply of contraception, pharmacist prescribing of contraception, and protecting contraceptive coverage in health insurance. The latest additions to the toolkit include an infographic on the importance of having access to the full range of birth control methods as well as state contraceptive landscape fact sheets for Utah, Missouri, and Wisconsin.
RWB Team: Syracuse, New York
Earlier this year, we selected 8 teams from across the US to partner with us in implementing our reproductive well-being work within their communities. Reproductive well-being means that all people have the information, services, and support they need to have control over their bodies and to make their own decisions related to sexuality and reproduction throughout their lives.
A long history of racist policies, including redlining, has led to disinvestment in Syracuse, New York. The city is ranked number one in the country for rate of concentrated poverty among Black and Latino people, and fifth for child poverty. However, the community is deeply committed to turning this narrative around and embracing dialogue and new policies around race and equity.
The Allyn Family Foundation is partnering with the Family Planning Service of Syracuse and the Center for Court Innovation to advance reproductive well-being for youth and families in Syracuse.
Join Bedsider Providers
If you’re a provider, check out the first in a new series on Bedsider Providers highlighting the lived experiences of those getting sexual and reproductive health care with a focus on people of color. Articles in this series allow sexual and reproductive health care providers to see through a patient’s perspective how their entire interaction with the health care system impacts their reproductive well-being.
Bedsider Providers is committed to strengthening health care providers ability to provide high-quality, culturally responsive sexual and reproductive care that meets patients where they are. That commitment includes celebrating all that birth control has to offer, but it also includes shining a light on some of the harsher realities, such as inequities in health care. If you’re not already, sign up to join the Bedsider Provider Network.
2021 Open Enrollment Has Begun
The Affordable Care Act is still law, and HeathCare.gov has now opened its enrollment period for 2020. Open Enrollment runs from November 1 through December 15. That’s only 6 weeks to find a plan or change to a plan that better fits your needs.
We know that seems like a short time, but don’t worry. Here are the resources and reminders to help you get your plan in time.
Let’s Talk Month Wrap Up
Over the last month, we celebrated Let’s Talk month by publishing a number of blogs, personal narratives, and resources to help you talk to friends, family, and the young people in your life. Read this recap of everything that happened this month and check out all of our Let’s Talk materials. Although October and Let’s Talk Month are ending, don’t stop having powerful conversations with those around you.
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