Family Tree Inc

Health Education Program:Family Tree's Health Education and Engagement department fills in gaps in sex education for populations least likely to receive comprehensive and inclusive sex ed, and who may face barriers to quality healthcare services. We provide comprehensive sexuality and healthy relationships education to youth and adults in schools, juvenile detention centers, and community locations. We teach lessons using the FLASH curriculum, developed in part by Family Tree, which is nationally recognized and proven effective in increasing participants' confidence to make safer sex choices. We also engage families through Parents are Sex Educators (PASE) lessons and Early Childhood Family Education (ECFE) classes. Additionally, we are the sole provider of puberty classes for St. Paul Public Schools district, and the sole provider of sexuality and healthy relationships education to youth in Hennepin and Ramsey county juvenile detention centers. Our Health Education department served over 14,286 individuals through 677 classes. We reached an additional 5,000 individuals through community outreach events.Since 1979, Family Tree has operated the Minnesota Department of Health-funded MN Sexual Health Hotline (1-800-78-FACTS, www.sexualhealthmn.org). This is a statewide service providing free and confidential information about STIs, birth control, and family planning. The hotline receives calls from people all over the state as well as the country, and we have specific outreach programming dedicated to reaching rural areas of Minnesota. Individuals in rural areas may have specific barriers to care. The hotline serves as a bridging point to help callers find local clinics and give accurate information to help them make informed choices about their health. Through the hotline, we maintain a sexual and reproductive healthcare provider database and provide referrals to low-cost clinics in all 87 counties in Minnesota.In 2025, Family Tree Clinic will continue providing quality, affordable sexual health and education services to communities most impacted by health inequities. In addition to core programs, specific activities include:1. Provide sexual and reproductive healthcare services reaching 3,500 unduplicated patients. Services are offered on a sliding-fee scale and include birth control, STI testing and treatment, menopause care, annual exams, etc.2. Provide 1,300 patients with testing for STIs through the clinic.3. Offer a full range of affordable, low-to no-cost birth control options to all, including long acting reversible contraception (LARC) methods.4. Provide medically accurate and age appropriate sexuality, healthy relationships, and puberty education for at least 14,000 unduplicated youth and families in schools, juvenile detention centers, and at community locations.5. Provide lessons to 1,000 youth in juvenile detention centers focused on STI/HIV prevention, consent, safer sex practices, and healthy relationships with Family Tree's Health Educators.6. Utilize Family Tree's trained MNsure Navigators on staff to assist 150 patients and community members with access to, and enrollment in, health coverage. 7. Enroll 200 individuals in the Minnesota Family Planning Program.8. Enhance patient access to HIV prevention resources including testing and PrEP, a daily pill that prevents transmission of HIV.9. Provide health resources and information to 7,000 community members through exhibits and outreach at community events.10. 100% of patients needing care beyond that available at Family Tree will be referred to other providers. Examples include primary care providers and mental health care.11. Cultivate clinical services and environments that better meet the needs for culturally competent sexual and reproductive healthcare.