Clinician Training Curricula
CHT and Engenderhealth collaborated to create three training curricula on the following content, designed to increase clinician comfort and skills in providing services to males: Taking a Sexual History, Performing a Genital Examination, and Disorders of the Male Reproductive System. You may review and download the entire curriculum at www.engenderhealth.org/res/offc/map/mrhc/#mrhc

Infertility Prevention Project
The Region VI Infertility Prevention Project is funded by CDC to assist in the development of prevention strategies and reduce the prevalence of chlamydia and gonorrhea. An advisory committee comprised of the laboratory, family planning program, and STD directors from each of the five states in Region VI meet three times per year. The advisory committee maintains the project through a strategic planning process; development of regional screening, treatment, data collection, education and training and quality assurance guidelines; development of a bi-annual newsletter and offering networking opportunities. Information on the Region VI project may be obtained by contacting austin@jba-cht.com.

Integration of HIV Prevention in Reproductive Health
Increasing HIV Prevention in FP Clinics. This CDC-funded project focuses on helping FP agencies develop a client-centered culture. By being client-centered, staff are better able to individualize services to client needs and provide more consistent and appropriate HIV prevention messages. Other results include decreased waiting times, increased staff involvement and morale, and improved client satisfaction. For more information contact srice@jba-cht.com.

Prison Inmate Peer Education
Since 2001
Audience: Prison inmates
Goals and Objectives: Through collaboration with correctional systems, community-based organizations and other stakeholders, our goal is to improve prison inmates' understanding of and access to health care, while in prison and upon release.
Products:

• Wall Talk, peer education training manual on HIV and other infectious diseases.
• Woman to Woman: Inside and Out, peer education training manual to help women take responsibility for their own health, to support one another, to improve communication with health care providers.
• Safe Prisons, peer education training manual designed to help inmates reduce coercive to violent behavior, including manipulation, extortion and sexual violence.

Region VI Title X Training and Technical Assistance
This General Training project is funded by the DHHS Office of Population Affairs, Office of Family Planning. Its purpose is meeting the basic training needs of family planning clinic staff at all levels with a primary goal to increase knowledge, skills and attitudes necessary for the management and delivery of quality client services. Workshops, retreats, conferences (both onsite or via telephone and satellite downlink) are specifically designed to address training needs of clinic personnel in Arkansas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, New Mexico, and Texas.

Texas Infertility Prevention Project (TIPP)
TIPP is a part of the Region VI Infertility Prevention Project. It is a partnership between the Texas Department of Health Microbiology Laboratory, Family Planning, HIV/STD Health Resources and the Center for Health Training. Together, these programs partner with sentinel chlamydia and gonorrhea screening sites across Texas to reduce the incidence and complications of these STDs. This is accomplished through screening high risk women, counseling infected and at-risk women and their partners on safer sex practices, and referring women for other medical services as appropriate. More information can be obtained from the TIPP website maintained by The Texas Department of Health or by contacting austin@jba-cht.com.

For a list of completed CHT projects, click here.

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