CCI title x family planning services program - CCI health services (CCI) requests funding from the department of health & human services - office of population affairs to support its title x family…

CCI title x family planning services program - CCI health services (CCI) requests funding from the department of health & human services - office of population affairs to support its title x family planning program. CCI is a federally qualified health center that provides affordable and comprehensive health services to 60,000 community members in montgomery county and prince george's county, maryland annually. According to the guttmacher institute, approximately 95,000 women in montgomery and prince george's counties likely need public support for contraceptive services and supplies. In 2020, 82.6% of CCI family planning users were hispanic/latinx and 10.4% were black/african american. A study based on the national survey of family growth noted that 63.0% of black women and 48.0% of hispanic women had unintended pregnancies. Minority adolescent women experience disproportionate rates of unintended pregnancy. In 2019, there were 2,609 teen births among girls ages 15 to 19 in the state of maryland. Of teen births in the state, 37.6% were among black girls and 33.7% were among hispanic girls. Limited access to contraception has also contributed to rising HIV/STI rates. In 2019, montgomery county had the third highest number of new HIV infections in the state and ranked fourth in the state for the greatest number of people living with diagnosed HIV. Prince george's county had the second highest rate of new HIV infections in the state. In 2009, CCI established its family planning program at its greenbelt health center in prince george's county. In 2014, CCI began contracting with MDH, which funded the expansion of title x family planning services at CCI. In 2015, CCI expanded and fully integrated the title x family program at all primary care locations. CCI's family planning program grew exponentially over the next three years. In 2018, CCI became a federal title x family planning grantee. With the added resources, CCI continued to grow the program. Despite the pandemic, CCI's title x family planning program served 7,380 patients through 15,841 encounters in 2020. This represents a 6.7% increase in family planning users and a 13.4% increase in family planning encounters from 2019 to 2020. CCI has experienced a 57.2% increase in patient encounters over the past three years. Title x family planning funding will position CCI to continue increasing community awareness and provision of family planning services. CCI will hire 1.0 FTE provider, launch a comprehensive marketing and outreach campaign, and introduce a health educator program to ensure that patients are knowledgeable about reproductive health topics and are positioned to meet their family planning goals.