Permian Basin Womens Resource Center Inc

THE PREVENTION EDUCATION DEPARTMENT: The Life Center offers, free of charge, in-depth sexual risk avoidance programs. The education programs are medically accurate, fact and character-based programs for grades 4 through 12, including parent/teacher programs. The sexual risk avoidance programs are presented at public and private schools throughout West Texas. The programs educate on average 12,000 students annually. The programs include pre and post testing to measure attitudinal shifts of key health facts including STD/STIs, abstinence, contraception, and building healthy relationships.

MEDICAL SERVICES: Limited obstetrical ultrasound exams are offered as a part of the pregnancy education and support services. The program focus is to determine fetal viability, recognition and understanding of human life at conception, fetal viability, gestational age and maternal connection. Nearly 300 scans are performed by certified nurses in all four locations. In 2019, the STI/STD Testing and Treatment program was launched to compliment the prevention education programs. The clinic provides extensive education, testing and treatment for most sexually transmitted infection free for students and young adults 15-29. (Some exceptions may apply.) The patient participates in a pre and post-test survey to determine knowledge before and after education. Dramatic outcomes post education include: never use protection to choosing abstinence; patient did not know about partner testing to patient will have their partner tested. The education includes disease characteristics, symptoms, transmission, long-term effects of risky life-style choices and consequences. The education piece helps the patient consider choosing healthy life-style choices and developing healthy relationships.