Let’s Talk About Sexual Health
Let’s Talk About Sexual Health
This short video provides guidance on discussing sexual health with adolescent patients.
Resource Type: Clinical Tools and Guidelines
Sexual Health and Your Patients: A Provider’s Guide
Sexual Health and Your Patients: A Provider’s Guide
A guide to help primary care providers (physicians, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, and nurse-midwives) learn how to better incorporate sexual health discussions and recommended preventive sexual health services into an adult or adolescent wellness visit.
Responding To Your Patient’s Questions
Responding To Your Patient’s Questions
Tips to prepare all members of a care team to answer common patient questions regarding sexual health including sexually transmitted infections.
Why Screen for Chlamydia? A How-To Implementation Guide for Healthcare Providers
Why Screen for Chlamydia? A How-To Implementation Guide for Healthcare Providers
Provides information on how to incorporate chlamydia screening, testing, and treatment in a clinical care setting. Includes topics such as taking a sexual history, making screening a routine practice, improving screening and treatment delivery, and providing confidential care to adolescents.
Understanding Confidentiality And Minor Consent In California: An Adolescent Provider Toolkit
Understanding Confidentiality And Minor Consent In California: An Adolescent Provider Toolkit
Provides information on the steps an office can take to protect minor consent and confidentiality.
Includes:
- Charts on minor consent and confidentiality
- Practice tools
- Screening, assessment, and referral tools
- Resource sheets
- Health education handouts for teens and their parents/guardians
- Online resources and research
Adolescent Health Care 101: The Basics – CA Edition: An Adolescent Provider Toolkit
Adolescent Health Care 101: The Basics – CA Edition: An Adolescent Provider Toolkit
Provides information on adolescent health assessment tools and insight on how to create an adolescent-friendly environment.
Includes:
- Screening tools
- Brief office interventions and counseling guidelines
- Resources and referrals
- Information and tip sheets
- Health education materials for teens and their adult caregivers
- Literature and internet resources
- A Youth Health Rights and Responsibilities poster
- A counseling tips bookmark
A Teen-Friendly Reproductive Health Visit Infographic
A Teen-Friendly Reproductive Health Visit Infographic
This infographic models a positive reproductive visit in a teen-friendly clinic. Use it to assess your clinic’s opportunities to become more teen-friendly.
Standard of Care for Patients with Chlamydia and Gonorrhea: Expedited Partner Therapy (EPT)
Standard of Care for Patients with Chlamydia and Gonorrhea: Expedited Partner Therapy (EPT)
Use this document to educate providers and clinic administration about the need to implement patient-delivered partner therapy (PDPT) within the expedited partner therapy (EPT) framework to treat the partners of those who have tested positive for chlamydia or gonorrhea.
Essential Sexual Health Questions to Ask Adolescents
Essential Sexual Health Questions to Ask Adolescents
Provides information on how to assess an adolescent patient’s sexual risk and provides a framework determine the types of services and STI screenings needed.
Quick Start Guide/Reminder Card
Chlamydia Quick Start Guide/Reminder Card
Edit this reminder card (PowerPoint version for download) to reflect your sexual risk assessment and chlamydia screening clinic flows and to remind providers about doing a HEADSSS assessment:
- H: Home
- E: Education/Employment
- A: Activities
- D: Drugs (incl. alcohol and tobacco)
- S: Sexuality
- S: Safety
- S: Suicidality/Depression
