Leading the Way: Increasing Access to Sexual and Reproductive Health Confer...
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“Leading the Way: Increasing Access to Sexual and Reproductive Health” will present AccessMatters’ health care providers and other health care professionals in the region with new strategies for integrating sexual and reproductive health care services. Speakers will help identify ways to increase access and quality of care for underserved populations; offer strategies to better integrate sexual and reproductive health care across the spectrum of health services; provide tools to advocate for and support improved health outcomes for the community; and offer information to help health care professionals provide quality service within the changing health care landscape.
Plenary Sessions will include the following topics:
- Examining Disparities in Family Planning Using a Reproductive Justice Framework
- Sex Work, Stigma, & Sexual Health: Providing Compassionate Care to Folks in the Sex Industry
- Adolescent Development
Workshop Sessions will include the following topics:
- Advocating for Access to Sexual and Reproductive Health in Harrisburg and Beyond
- Bringing Patient Advocacy Outside the Exam Room: Mobile Apps and Tools You Can Utilize for Health Promotion
- Contraceptive Update
- Essential Counseling Skills for Challenging Encounters
- Genital Dermatology
- ICD 10: Are you ready?
- Improve Your Outlook: Coping with Stress
- Integrating Sexual and Reproductive Health into Primary Care: Panel
- Meeting the Sexual and Reproductive Health Needs of a Transgender Client
- Motivating Behavior Change: An Addictions Perspective
- STD Update
- Sexuality Across the Lifespan
- Taking an Inclusive Sexual History
Audience:
AccessMatters’ network health care providers working in sexual and reproductive health and other health care professionals from the region including primary care. These include physicians, physician assistants, nurses, nurse midwives, nurse practitioners, counselors, social workers, health educators, outreach staff, administrative staff, public affairs staff, external partner organizations/coalition members, and students from local medical, nursing, public health and social work programs.
CEU:
We will be offering CEUs for Nurses, Certified Health Educators, Social Workers, Physicians and Physician Assistants. Approximately 5.5 contact hours.
