West Virginia
Family Planning Program

Training & Conferences

 

TRAINING

The WV Family Planning Program will provide orientation and/or in-service training of all provider personnel, including the staff of service sites at least once per project period (with a refresher course (conducted by the program clinic contact) once per year.  The WV Family Planning Program clinic contact must have the full orientation and update training once per year. While training will be conducted or arranged by the WV Family Planning Program, providers are responsible for maintaining updated records for clinic staff to show completion (such as certificates, confirmation of completion emails, etc.) of the required training. Clinic staff is/are responsible for completing training in the following areas on an annual basis:

 

•		Reporting requirements: staff must comply with Federal/State requirements for reporting or notification of child abuse, child molestation, sexual abuse, rape or incest, intimate partner violence or human trafficking; https://rhntc.org/resources/mandatory-child-abuse-reporting-policy-template
•		Cultural competency: staff must consider the educational and cultural backgrounds of the individuals to whom they provide services including the LGBTQ community, persons with disabilities, and adolescents; https://rhntc.org/resources/cultural-competency-family-planning-care-elearning
•		The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). https://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/for-professionals/training/index.html

Additional training and education materials can be located at The Reproductive Health National Training Center’s (RHNTC) website at, www.rhntc.org and at The National Clinical Training Center (NCTC) for Family Planning’s website at, https://www.ctcfp.org.

 

CONFERENCES

The WV Family Planning Program maintains a membership with the National Family Planning & Reproductive Health Association, www.nationalfamilyplanning,org, (NFPRHA). All clinical service sites in the program are also eligible for webinars, conferences, and information updates provided by NFPRHA.

 

The NCTC also offers an annual National Reproductive Health Conference (http://www.ctcfp.org/nrhc/), which clinic staff are encouraged to attend.

 

INFORMATION AND EDUCATION RESOURCES

Title X and the WV Family Planning Program follow the recommendations of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (www.cdc.gov), the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (https://www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/), the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (www.acog.org), the American Society for Reproductive Medicine (www.asrm.org), and other nationally recognized standards of care. Full clinical recommendations for the Family Planning Program can be located in the “QFP” or Providing Quality Family Planning Services: Recommendations from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the US Office of Population Affairs (QFP) - PDF and subsequent updates, Update: Providing Quality Family Planning Services — Recommendations from CDC and the U.S. Office of Population Affairs, 2015 and Update: Providing Quality Family Planning Services — Recommendations from CDC and the U.S. Office of Population Affairs, 2017.