Training and Reference Guides for Family Planning Screening Checklists

"The Training and Reference Guides for Family Planning Screening Checklists from Family Health International (FHI) are a series of four publications designed for program managers, administrators, trainers, and service providers interested in learning how to use the checklists to screen women wishing to initiate use of family planning methods, including combined oral contraceptives (COCs), injectables ([Depot Medroxyprogesterone Acetate] DMPA and [norethisterone oenanthate] NET-EN contraceptives), the copper intrauterine device (IUD), and implants (available after May 2008). A fifth checklist, entitled "How to be Reasonably Sure a Client is not Pregnant", enables providers to rule out pregnancy among nonmenstruating women seeking to initiate the contraceptive method of their choice at the time of their visit."

The titles of these documents are:

• Training and Reference Guide for a Screening Checklist to Initiate COCs
• Training and Reference Guide for a Screening Checklist to Initiate DMPA (or NET-EN)
• Training and Reference Guide for a Screening Checklist to Initiate Use of the Copper IUD
• Training and Reference Guide for a Screening Checklist to Identify Women Who are Not Pregnant
• Training and Reference Guide for a Screening Checklist to Initiate Use of Implants (available soon, according to the FHI website - accessed on May 13 2008)

The guides, developed with support from the US Agency for International Development (USAID), are designed to serve as both training and reference tools, as follows:
"As a training tool, each guide provides a four-to-six-hour curriculum for training service providers to use the checklist and a CD-ROM containing key resources needed during the training.
As a reference tool, each guide provides reference information to supplement the training. This information includes a collection of essential, up-to-date reference materials on the validity, effectiveness, and use of the checklists, recommendations on adapting the checklist to the local context, basic evidence-based information on the specific family planning method, and an annotated bibliography."