Family Planning Training Institute
The ABCD Health Services Department is committed to keeping low income residents and communities in the greater Boston area healthy through local public health promotion and disease prevention programs, including Title X family planning and related preventive health services. ABCD’s programming provides free, high quality care to tens of thousands of people each year.
The ABCD Family Planning Training Institute provides professional level training on family planning, reproductive health and sexuality education for healthcare providers, counselors, educators, and other community health workers. We offer a comprehensive calendar of professional training opportunities. Introduction to Family Planning, Basic Family Planning, and Family Planning for Advanced Practice are usually offered three times a year.
In addition, trainings on current reproductive health topics are held several times a year. Specialized trainings on family planning and reproductive health topics are available for community and health care agencies by special arrangement with ABCD staff.
ABCD also conducts mandatory trainings on current reproductive health topics several times a year. These trainings are required for certified family planning counselors in ABCD family planning funded sites.
Trainings:
Family Planning Training for Advanced Practice
Description: Our Advanced course is designed for practitioners to increase their knowledge of Family Planning topics. This course consists of self-paced eLearning modules and two live Zoom sessions. We cover prescribing and counseling for Birth Control options, Infertility Care, LGBTQ+ Health, Working with Adolescents, Pregnancy Options, and more! This course is designed for RNs, NPs, PAs, and MDs only and offers 15 CEUs.
Date:
August 8th, 2023 and August 15th, 2023 (Must attend both days for credit) (VIRTUAL)
November 7th, 2023 and November 14th, 2023 (Must attend both days for credit) (VIRTUAL)
Time: 8:00am – 12:45pm
Cost: If seeking CEUs, the cost for non-ABCD sites is $300. If not seeking CEUs, it is $200. For ABCD sites, the course is free unless CEUs are desired, then it is $100.
Registration Form: Sign up here
HIV Education for Health Workers Training
Description: This two day course is designed to provide health workers and educators with a knowledge of STIs and HIV, testing counseling skills, Reproductive Justice and HIV, the history of HIV, and more!
Registration Form: bostonabcd.org/HIVEducationForm
Basic Family Planning Training
Description: Our Basic training course is a comprehensive introduction to Family Planning Counseling. This course contains two sets of self-paced eLearning modules and two live Zoom sessions. In this course, we cover Quality Family Planning Counseling principles, Reproductive Anatomy, Reproductive Justice, LGBTQIA+ Health, Contraception, STIs, Pregnancy Options, Working with Adolescents, and more!
FINAL REGISTRATION DEADLINE: October 23rd
Registration Form: Sign up here
IUD Certification / Nexplanon Certification Training
Description: ABCD will be partnering with Paraguard to offer an in-person IUD certification training!
On this same training day, we are hoping to also offer a Nexplanon training. If you are interested in a Nexplanon training as well, please indicate this in the registration form!
Registration Form: Sign up here
Webinars:
Available Webinars
HPV Prevention Training presented by Team Maureen
Sexual Education for Individuals with Developmental Delays presented by Mad Hatter Wellness
Sexual Misconduct Prevention and Response Training presented by RAINN
Culturally Responsive Reproductive Health Education for Youth Training Presented by HRiA
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