Additional Reading

Recommendations for the use of specific contraceptive methods by women and men who have certain characteristics or medical conditions. Intended to assist care team members when they counsel women, men, and couples about contraceptive method choice.

Recommendations that address a select group of common, yet sometimes controversial or complex, issues regarding initiation and use of specific contraceptive methods. Intended to serve as a source of clinical guidance for care team members and provide evidence-based guidance to reduce medical barriers to contraception access and use.

Opinion from the Committee on Adolescent Health Care, which concludes that obstetrician-gynecologists should counsel all sexually active adolescents who do not seek pregnancy on the range of contraceptive methods, including LARC, and should help make these contraceptives readily accessible to them.

Recommendation regarding the provision of behavioral counseling for all sexually active adolescents and for adults at increased risk for sexually transmitted infections.

Recommendation regarding screening for chlamydia and gonorrhea in all sexually active women, including pregnant persons.

Policy statement from the Committee on Adolescence, which provides the pediatrician with a description and rationale for best practices in counseling and prescribing contraception for adolescents.

Principles to protect the bodily autonomy and to respect the agency, health, and dignity of marginalized women so that those who have historically been oppressed or harmed feel safe when making reproductive decisions.

Recommendations for the organization and delivery of preventive clinical sexual and reproductive health services for reproductive-aged males from adolescence through adulthood.

Recommendations that address the provision of family planning services, including a description of the type of services to include for female and male clients and special populations, such as adolescents.

Recommendations for the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of sexually transmitted infections. Intended to be a source for clinical guidance.

Community-wide, multi-component intervention in Bronx, New York to increase adolescents’ access to and use of sexual and reproductive health care by increasing community partner capacity to link neighborhood clinics to youth-serving organizations. Early results show that the model may be useful for other municipalities or organizations.

QI activities focused on improvements in sexual risk assessment and delivery of annual chlamydia screening to adolescent and young adult clients of primary care pediatric offices in Buffalo, New York. QI methodology led to successful change in provider capacity to conduct a sexual history assessment of adolescent patients and increases in chlamydia screening coverage.

QI initiative that increased testing for chlamydia and gonorrhea among young people 15 to 24 years of age in Omaha, Nebraska through 1) media campaigns emphasizing the importance of testing as a means of normalizing and increasing the demand for testing and 2) free chlamydia and gonorrhea testing and treatment in a youth-friendly manner during expanded hours.

QI intervention that disseminated accurate information about contraceptive methods with a focus on Long-Acting Reversible Contraception (LARC) by delivering interactive lunch-and-learn talks throughout the Greater Rochester, New York area. Audiences included both health center staff and adults who work with adolescents in nonmedical community-based organizations. This intervention led to a significant increase in LARC use (from 4% to 24%) among sexually active female high school students in Rochester.

Text messaging reminder system that showed short-term preliminary efficacy for improving clinic attendance at the first two family planning visits in an urban academic practice among adolescent and young adult women who chose Depo-Provera.

Training and technical assistance intervention that showed improvements in knowledge of, attitudes toward, and practices for caring for sexual and gender minority youth among care team members in 10 diverse clinics in Michigan.

QI initiative that worked to 1) improve the quality of publicly funded health centers’ adolescent sexual and reproductive health services and 2) improve adolescent access to sexual and reproductive health services if needed. The latter was accomplished by working with youth-serving organizations to refer and link young people to care. Funded organizations also promoted health centers’ services to increase awareness among young people in the local community.

This toolkit is made to support pediatricians in all facets of their academic practice, including leadership-practice, peer-peer, pediatrician-patient, and educator-trainee interactions.

This toolkit provides resources to help adolescent health professionals combat racism, promote racial justice, reduce health disparities, and advance health equity for youth.

This resource supports pediatricians, health clinicians, community leaders, and public health professionals in identifying strategies and key partnerships to expand equitable access to reproductive health care.

This compendium of resources was created for pediatric health care professionals to address the impact of racism, bias, and discrimination on the health and well-being of their patients and families.

A guide to cultivate a clinical environment that supports primary care providers in the delivery of inclusive sexual health services to all patients.

Blog post on using a reproductive justice lens when implementing LARC services; note that while originally intended for School Based Health Centers, this resource has useful information for all health centers.

This resource is a facilitated, comprehensive self-assessment and guided improvement process for organizations, which includes customized resources, recommendations, technical assistance, and implementation plans using Plan, Do, Study, Act (PDSA) improvement cycles.

This change package describes four best practice recommendations for improving chlamydia screening rates and suggested strategies for implementation of these practices.

This toolkit provides resources to implement QI initiatives related to male-friendly reproductive health services and includes discussion of QI methods, a variety of assessment tools, and recommendations and strategies for managing change.

This toolkit provides tools and resources that support operationalizing the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Recommendations for Providing Quality STD Clinical Services, 2020 in clinical settings.

This toolkit provides evidence-based practice guidelines to enhance a provider’s ability to meet the sexual health needs of adolescents. It includes practice readiness tools; screening, assessment, and referral tools; resource sheets on various sexual health issues; and online resources and hotlines.

This guide provides resources to help health care providers better integrate sexual health conversations and recommended preventive services into routine visits with adolescents and adults.

This tool assesses if health care services are delivered in a youth-friendly way to assist organizations in identifying improvement goals. It includes a guide for using the tool, a description of youth-friendly services, and a bibliography.