Phillips County Family Planning Clinic:

Family Planning services are defined as "educational, comprehensive medical or social activities which enable individuals, including minors, to determine freely the number of spacing of their children and to select the means by which this may be achieved. 

Family Planning Priorities:

• Assuring the delivery of quality family planning and related preventive health service, with priority for services to individuals from low-income families. 

• Assessing clients reproductive life plan/reproductive intentions as part of determining the need for FP services & providing preconception services

• Providing access to broad range of acceptable and effective FP methods and related preventive health services

• Ensuring all clients receive contraceptive & other services in a voluntary client-centered & non-coercive manner

• Identifying individuals, families, & communities in need, not currently receiving FP service through out-reach to hard-to-reach and/or vulnerable populations & partnering with other community based health/Social service providers that provided needed services. 

Why is Family Planning Important?

• Help women & men plan & space births

• Prevent unintended pregnancies

• Reduce the number of abortions

• Help improve infant and maternal outcomes

• Improve Women, Men, and Infant health

• Provide Sexually Transmitted Disease screening & treatment services to prevent tubal infertility 

What are your rights?

• Receive the best possible care

• Be respectful and treated in a fair, polite manner

• Have your cultural, social, religious, and language needs heard.

• Privacy & Confidentiality 

• Have your health, treatment options and follow-up options explained to you

• Be told about resources available to you & be given information you can understand 

* In accordance with Federal Law & USDA policy this institution is prohibited from discriminating on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, age, or disability.