Outreach-Based Pregnancy Intention Screening and Prevention

Friday, June 23, 2017: 9:30 AM
Roosevelt (Grand Hyatt Washington)
Leah Warner, FNP, MPH (Nurse Practitioner, Street Medicine and Shelter Health, San Francisco Department of Public Health)
Joan Chen, BA (Outreach Worker, San Francisco Homeless Outreach Team (SFHOT), Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing.)
Higher risk of unintended pregnancy and lower access to contraception are significant health issues for homeless cisgender women of childbearing age who are out of care. We launched a pilot evaluation of One-Key Question®, a pregnancy intention screening tool, administered via outreach workers and outreach medical providers. Results of the pilot inform future directions in offering outreach-based pregnancy prevention methods which are accessible to the target population in the field. In particular, greater access to the subdermal birth control implant could be a potential method to address clients’ needs.