Balancing Options Counseling with the Infant Adoption Program 3rd National Title X Grantee Meeting

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Balancing Options Counseling with the Infant
Adoption Program3rd National Title X Grantee
Meeting

• Phoenix, Arizona
• September 19, 2006

JSI Research Training Institute,
Inc. 303-262-4300 1860 Blake Street, Suite
320 Fax [phone] Denver, Colorado
80202 denver_at_jsi.com
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Background

• Lutheran Social Services of South Dakota is an
  Infant Adoption Awareness Training Program
  grantee serving Region VIII, compromised of six
  states
• Colorado
• North Dakota
• Montana
• South Dakota
• Utah
• Wyoming

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BackgroundOverall Project Goal

• To work collaboratively (nationally and
  regionally) to improve awareness and increase
  knowledge about adoption among health care
  workers in Region VIII, especially those in rural
  areas and other underserved areas, including
  Native American reservations.

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BackgroundMeasurable Objectives

• To increase the number of health care workers in
  Region VIII who are trained in the area of infant
  adoption awareness by increasing marketing
  efforts and offering flexible training designed
  to meet participant needs.
• To increase training opportunities in underserved
  geographic areas, allowing participants to attend
  training close to where they reside.
• To improve and expand upon the existing
  curriculum by continuing to collaborate with
  other IAATP grantees.

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BackgroundPartnership with JSI RT

• The IATI project partnered with the Title X
  training grantee for Region VIII, JSI Research
  and Training Institute in 2003.
• The partnership has
• Allow shorter combined trainings of Understanding
  Infant Adoption and Title X Options Counseling
  requiring the Title X staff.
• Increase legitimacy and visibility of the IATI to
  the Title X providers
• Provide conference information as well as
  guidance in training techniques used for Title X.
• Connect the IATI with a Native American Title X
  employee.
• The Lutheran Social Services staff has attended
  Regional Title X meetings to promote the IATI
  project trainings.
• The JSI Director of Training has been a part of
  the curricula development committee.
• JSI has attended the yearly IATP Region VIII
  Trainer Update

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BackgroundTrainers

• The majority of trainers have been training under
  the IAATP program since the start of the program
  in 2001.
• At minimum, no trainer can train for this project
  unless they have two years of adoption practice
  experience in the field of infant adoption.
• All trainers are required to be employed in the
  adoption field.

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Current Trainings

• Beginning in April 2006, five states in Region
  VIII have received the Infant Adoption/Options
  training.
• Approximately 100 Title X providers received
  training.

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Evaluation

• Trainees rated their achievement of IATI
  objectives following their training.
• Ratings were
• Objective 1 Articulate federal expectations and
  my role in providing pregnancy options 97.2
• Ojective 2 Separate my personal values from
  professional values in providing options
  counseling 99.7

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Evaluation
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Training Targets.

• Approximately 1,435 entities who serve pregnant
  women in Region VIII.
• Includes
• State health department professionals
• School nurses
• Pregnancy centers.
• Hospitals
• Non-profit OB/GYN clinics
• Non-profit primary care clinics
• Indian Health Service staff
• ICWA staff
• Planned Parenthood staff
• Abstinence programs
• Family consumer science teachers

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Next Steps

• Project will focus particularly on staff of the
  Title X and 330 clinics in Region VIII.
• Project will facilitate 144 trainings per year,
  training approximately 1,500 health professionals
  each year.
• Over the next five years, we expect to train
  approximately 7,500 participants.

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Next Steps

• Trainings will be presented through three
  different delivery options
• An area training where participants come
  together from various facilities and an on-site
  training where participants are trained in their
  own healthcare facility.
• We will strive to continue training in rural
  areas as well as on Native American reservations.
• A computer-based training.
• A two-hour refresher session available to past
  participants to update information and encourage
  skill development.

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Next Steps

• In order to meet local needs we have and will
  continue to
• Offer four-hour trainings to those who can not
  spend the whole day in training.
• Offer two separate sessions of four-hour training
  to those facilities with a small staff.
• Offer four-hour training in conjunction with a
  Title X trainers Options Counseling so that
  the family planning staff can attend both
  trainings in one day.

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Next Steps

• The IATI collaborative recently began developing
  a marketing plan that would assist recruitment
  efforts as well as follow-up with the past
  participants.
• We will conduct focus groups within the first
  four months of the next grant period involving
  Title X/330 health care providers (including
  Native American providers) assessing current
  recruitment and marketing strategies to better
  engage our target population in the project.
• Focus groups will be conducted with the
  assistance of the Region VIII Title X Training
  Director.

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Next Steps

• Continuing this year, the JSI Training Director
  will be involved in training as a co-presenter.
• Native American health care trainers will be
  available to assist in training needs.

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Contact Information

• Patrice Zink
• Phone [phone]
• E-mail pzink_at_jsi.com