Family Planning Program
 
The Maternal Adolescent and Child Health Section’s Family Planning Program, which was established without Federal funding in 1975, provides cost-effective and culturally responsive reproductive prevention and health care services to our City’s most vulnerable populations.   The Family Planning Program provides reproductive health care and prevention services to over 7,500 unduplicated clients annually through a network of 7 community-based health centers. These sites are located in some of the most economically disenfranchised neighborhoods of the City and include 3 adolescent-focused clinics.  .
 
The vast majority of our clients have incomes at 150% of the Federal poverty level or below ($28,275 for a family of four; it is estimated that such a family in San Francisco requires $55,000 annually to live in minimal comfort). For many of these women and men, we are the only source of care and participation in the Family Planning Program often serves as their gateway to other important health services. Special MCAH Family
 
The The Youth Health Initiative Project  focuses its efforts in the Southeast sector of the City, serving primarily the Potrero Hill, Ocean-Merced-Ingleside, Sunnydale, and Bayview Hunters Point neighborhoods.  This outreach program educates youth about STI risk and prevention in street, community and educational settings and links them to appropriate clinic screening, testing and treatment services.
 
Community Link, a pregnancy prevention program, is a partnership between the MCAH Family Planning Program, the DPH Community Health Programs for Youth, Huckleberry Youth Programs, and the Teenage Pregnancy and Parenting Project (TAPP). In addition, Community Link involves extensive collaboration between these agencies and a much broader network of private and public organizations. Community Link is working to reduce teen pregnancies in those San Francisco neighborhoods designated by the State as “Teen Pregnancy Hotspots.”