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: The Family Planning for Advanced Practice Training is designed for practitioners seeking to enhance their knowledge of Family Planning. This course combines self-paced eLearning modules and two interactive Zoom sessions. Participants will explore key family planning topics including birth control counseling and prescribing, infertility care, LGBTQ+ health, adolescent care, pregnancy options, and more. Exclusively offered to RNs, NPs, PAs, and physicians, this training offers 15 contact hours upon successful completion.
Date and Time:
March 4, 2025 at 11:30am – 4:05pm
March 11, 2025 at 8:00am – 12:45pm
(Must attend both days for credit) (VIRTUAL)
Cost: If seeking contact hours, the cost for non-ABCD sites is $300. If not seeking contact hours, it is $200. For ABCD sites, the course is free unless contact hours are desired, then it is $100.
Registration Form: Sign up here
Registration Deadline: February 18, 2025
Payment for non ABCD sites due: February 25, 2025
Registration fees must be paid before attending.
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HIV Education for Health Workers Training
Description: This two-day course is designed to provide health workers and educators with a deepened knowledge of STIs and HIV, testing and counseling, harm reduction and prevention strategies, the history of HIV, and HIV as an issue of racial health inequity.
Registration Form: Form for next training forthcoming
Previous session: New England AIDS Education and Training Center: Events (neaetc.org)
The passcode is “ABCD”. Once registered, you will receive an email with Zoom and further information.There is a cap of 20 participants for this training, however a waitlist will be kept for future offerings. If you have any questions or challenges with registration, please reach out to Kristin at NEAETC at Kmoccia@crihealth.org
Family Planning BASICS 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: February 6, 2025
Registration Form: Sign up here
BAYER IUD Certification / Nexplanon Certification Training
Description: ABCD is partnering with Bayer to offer a new IUD Certification Training for Mirena, Skyla, and Kyleena, followed by a Nexplanon Certification Training from Organon. Participants may choose to attend either or both trainings.
Date: February 26, 2025
Time:
IUDs: 9:00am – 10:30am
Nexplanon: 11:00am – 12:30pm
Location:
ABCD Health Services, 4th floor
105 Chauncy St, Boston MA, 02111
Cost: FREE
Target Audience: Licensed advanced practice clinicians who will be placing or removing IUDs and/or Nexplanon may attend either training. This includes current NPs, PAs, MDs, and DOs. NP and PA students are also invited to register for the Bayer IUD training, space permitting.
Registration Form: Sign up here
Before registering, please first check with your employer that you will be able to insert and remove IUDs and/or Nexplanon implants at your clinic following certification. There is a cap on the number of participants, so please register soon.
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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