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Grantee Details
Fiscal Year:
2024
Annual Funding:
$1,025,000
Website:
https://bostonabcd.org/service/healthfamily-planningoverview
Program Summary
Action for Boston Community Development (ABCD) is a nonprofit organization that has been a Title X grant recipient since the early 1980s. It delivers services to approximately 27,000 clients through subrecipient agencies and direct service sites, including federally qualified health centers (FQHCs), community health centers, school-based health centers (SBHCs), and two hospitals in the Greater Boston Area. As a Title X recipient, ABCD provides a broad range of family planning services, including pregnancy prevention and birth spacing, pregnancy testing and counseling, assistance to achieve pregnancy, basic infertility services, sexually transmitted infection (STI) services, and other preconception health services. The services are voluntary, confidential, and provided regardless of ability to pay.
Learn more about ABCD. For information on services at individual service sites, visit ReproductiveHealthServices.gov.
Services
- Counseling on achieving pregnancy
- Preconception health services
- Pregnancy testing and counseling
- Basic infertility services
- FDA approved long-acting contraceptives
- FDA approved short-acting contraceptives
- Natural family planning methods
- STI and HIV education and counseling
- STI and HIV screening and testing
- STI and HIV treatment
- STI self-testing
- Expedited partner therapy
- PrEP counseling and risk assessment
- PrEP prescription services
- PEP counseling
- PEP prescription services
- Screening for breast cancer
- Screening for cervical cancer
- HPV vaccinations
- Screening for intimate partner violence
- Screening for mental health
- Screening for obesity
- Screening for smoking, drug, and alcohol use
- Adolescent-friendly health services