Youth Resources
Program Guides, Job Aids, Africa, Latin America
Program Guides
Title: Technical Guidance on Youth-friendly PAC
Authors: PACC Youth-friendly Working Group
Organization: PAC Consortium
Date: 2006
Description: This technical guidance was developed to improve the quality and access to PAC services for young people, as a way to improve the overall quality of PAC services to meet the needs of all clients. The guidelines are organized by the five elements of the PAC Consortium’s Essential Elements of PAC model.
Also available in English, French, Spanish, Portuguese.
Title: Youth-Friendly PAC: Meeting the Needs of Young PAC Clients
Authors: G. Hainsworth
Organization: Pathfinder International in collaboration with the Youth-Friendly PAC Working Group
Date: 2005
Description: This resource provides technical guidance on the following youth-friendly PAC issues: community and service provider partnerships, counseling, contraceptive and family planning services, and reproductive and other health services. Youth-focused PAC research and intervention activities from the Dominican Republic, Malawi, and Mozambique are also reviewed.
Title: A Rapid Assessment of Youth Friendly Reproductive Health Services
Authors: J. Senderowitz, G. Hainsworth, C. Solter
Organization: Pathfinder International
Date: 2003
Description: This tool was developed to facilitate the rapid assessment of youth-friendly characteristics, providing the basis for developing and implementing a comprehensive action plan. The tool is implemented through a variety of methods, and can be used to establish a baseline, prepare a plan for training and service quality improvement, and measure changes in youth-friendliness by conducting periodic reassessments. It also allows for management and staff to become more involved in program operations and provides a means to get input from adolescent clients.
Title: FOCUS on Young Adults: a Guide to Monitoring and Evaluating Adolescent Reproductive Health Programs
Authors: S. Adamchak, K. Bond, L. MacLaren, R. Magnani, K. Nelson, J. Seltzer
Organization: Pathfinder International
Date: 2000
Description: Tool Series 5: A guide to Monitoring and Evaluating Adolescent Reproductive Health Programs is designed for program managers who monitor and evaluate adolescent reproductive health programs addressing such issues as postabortion care.
Title: Making Reproductive Health Services Youth Friendly
Authors: J. Senderowitz
Organization: Pathfinder International
Date: 1999
Description: This paper reviews challenges to providing youth-friendly reproductive health services, reviews program efforts to institute youth-friendly services, and strategies and actions to make services more accommodating to the needs of young people.
Title: Adolescents, Unwanted Pregnancy and Abortion: Policies, Counseling, and Clinical Care
Authors: M. de Bruyn, S. Packer
Organization: Ipas
Date: 2004, 2005
Description: A notable gap exists in policymaking and programming to address the consequences of unwanted adolescent pregnancies, including abortion-related care. This document seeks to provide direction on policies, counseling and clinical care that can help prevent unwanted pregnancies and offer abortion-related care tailored to adolescents' needs.
Job Aids
Title: Adolescent Counseling Cue Cards
Authors: Pathfinder International
Organization: Pathfinder International
Date: 2003
Description: These user-friendly job aids for providers offer helpful information and tips specific to the reproductive health needs of young people, covering a variety of contraceptive methods including: combined oral contraceptives, injectable contraceptives, emergency contraception pills, lactationalmenorrhea method, intrauterine device, female condom, male condom, and Norplant.
Also available in Portuguese
Title: Postabortion Care: Counseling Adolescent Clients
Authors: USAID: Extending Service Delivery (ESD)
Organization: USAID: Extending Service Delivery (ESD)
Date: 2008
Description: This informational pamphlet provides key information and messages to convey to young people during postabortion care counseling.
Title: YFPAC Cue Cards
Authors: USAID: Extending Service Delivery (ESD)
Organization: USAID: Extending Service Delivery (ESD)
Date: 2008
Description: Youth Friendly Postabortion Care Cue Cards 1-6, providing information for clinicians before, during, and after postabortion care.
Title: YFPAC Counseling Techniques
Authors: USAID: Extending Service Delivery (ESD)
Organization: USAID: Extending Service Delivery (ESD)
Date: 2008
Description: These counseling techniques help assure good communication with young people during the counseling session
Title: YFPAC Counseling Principles
Authors: USAID: Extending Service Delivery (ESD)
Organization: USAID: Extending Service Delivery (ESD)
Date: 2008
Description: These principles of effective counseling help assure effective counseling of youth or young people.
Title: Rights of the Client
Authors: USAID: Extending Service Delivery (ESD)
Organization: USAID: Extending Service Delivery (ESD)
Date: 2008
Description: Provides a list of ten rights of all community members, individuals, couples and clients, regardless of age, education, marital, ethnic, social, economic and political status.
Title: YFPAC Pain Management
Authors: USAID: Extending Service Delivery (ESD)
Organization: USAID: Extending Service Delivery (ESD)
Date: 2008
Description: This document gives suggestions for providing supportive treatment that can help youth client mange pain better.
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Africa
Title: Saving Young Lives: Pathfinder International’s Youth-Friendly Postabortion Care Project
Authors: M. Burket, G. Hainsworth, C. Boyce
Organization: Pathfinder International
Date: 2008
Description: This report shares Pathfinder's recent experience implementing the Youth-Friendly Postabortion Care (YFPAC) project in eight African countries; it contains program descriptions, an overview of the process of making PAC services youth-friendly, key results, challenges, lessons learned, and recommendations.
Title: Pathfinder Ghana Youth-Friendly PAC
Authors: Pathfinder International
Organization: Pathfinder International
Date: 2008
Description: In 2007, Pathfinder International administered a one-year Youth-Friendly Postabortion Care (YFPAC) project in eight sub-Saharan African countries. This brief document reviews the challenges, results, and lessons learned in Ghana.
Title: Community Level Dynamics of Unsafe Abortion in Western Kenya and Opportunities for Prevention
Authors: K. Rogo, L. Bohmer, C. Ombaka
Organization: Pacific Institute for Women’s Health
Date: 2000
Description: Approximately 20-50% of pregnancy related mortality in East, Central and Southern Africa is due to unsafe abortion. Postabortion care has been a successful approach to reducing morbidity and mortality by improving the care of women with abortion complications with: emergency treatment for complications of abortion; postabortion family planning and services; and links between emergency treatment and other reproductive health services. Programs to improve abortion care have almost exclusively focused on secondary prevention at the hospital level, although efforts to decentralize treatment for abortion complications are underway in the region. This publication provides several recommendations for action, including: strengthening efforts to prevent unwanted pregnancies, prevent unsafe abortions, increase access to safe affordable abortion services, increase access to postabortion care, and address legal and policy issues related to sexuality, contraception and abortion.
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Latin America
Title: Operations Research Study to Improve Postabortion Care (PAC) Services among Adolescents in the Dominican Republic
Authors: FHI, USAID, YouthNet, Interagency Youth Working Group
Organization: Family Health International
Date: 2007
Description: This paper summarizes an operations research study to improve the PAC counseling and contraceptive uptake among adolescent PAC patients seeking services in the Dominican Republic. Before the study and intervention, few patients left with contraception; after the intervention, 40 percent of patients who wished to delay pregnancy left with a contraceptive method, with no significant differences found between the adolescents and older women in terms of contraceptive uptake.
Title: Postabortion Care for Adolescents: Results from Research in the Dominican Republic and Malawi
Authors: S. Girvin
Organization: EngenderHealth
Date: 2004
Description: This document summarizes the results of studies in the Dominican Republic and Malawi and provides recommendations for improving adolescent PAC services.
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