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CORE's contraceptive access framework, which is built around three interconnected strategies, ensure contraceptive care is community-centered, built with sustainable practices and systems, and that clinical care is person-centered.

1. Sexual and reproductive health (SRH) training, technical assistance, and coaching 

2. Contraceptive access assessment 

3. Person-centered care and LARC provider training packages

4. Public health nurse consultant services

5. SRH proposal development

6. SRH program planning, development, implementation, and management

The Core Framework

Community Centered Engagement

CORE prioritizes deep and meaningful community partnerships to ensure reproductive healthcare solutions are locally informed and sustainable. This strategy focuses on:

  • Conducting surveys, focus groups, lived experience panels, and listening sessions to incorporate community voices

  • Partnering with community-based organizations, schools, pharmacies, and faith-based agencies to expand contraceptive access

  • Leveraging data from Maternal Child Health (MCH) Title V Block Grants, Title X, and Community Health Assessments (CHA) to guide community engagement strategies

  • Developing and implementing community engagement and outreach plans

  • Strengthening Medicaid enrollment support and collaboration with pharmacists

  • Exploring expanded roles for Community Health Workers, Health Educators, and Registered Nurses

  • Guarding against sexual and reproductive health misinformation and disinformation

Person Centered Care

CORE promotes person-centered contraceptive counseling and care that is equitable, affirming, and centered on patients' goals and values through provider training, and quality improvement initiatives. Key activities include:

  • Training providers and staff in anti-racism, anti-coercion, and reproductive justice principles. 

  • Fostering gender inclusive and affirming healthcare

  • Implementing standardized reproductive desires screening tools like PATH, OKQ, PCCC, and SINC

  • Enhancing patient counseling techniques to align with QFP 2024 recommendations

  • Utilizing patient experience surveys to refine care delivery

  • Ensuring seamless contraceptive method access to a broad range of methods, including same-day provision and advanced supply options

  • Desiloing STI/HIV and SRH programming

  • Emphasizing patient autonomy in contraceptive method choice (e.g. self-administered DMPA, Plan B as Plan A, patient preference)

CORE supports healthcare providers in clinical capacity building the infrastructure and skills needed to deliver sustainable, efficient and effective contraceptive care. Key actions include:

  • Providing hands-on LARC training

  • Expanding provider competency in provision of contraceptive methods

  • Developing and implementing evidence-based policies, procedures, and workflows

  • Strengthening electronic health record (EHR) templates and privacy, and data collection capabilities

  • Integrating validated clinical performance measures to assess contraceptive care quality

  • Scope of practice and staff role optimization (/RN/MA/CHW/doulas/HE/medical chaperones utilization)

  • Contraceptive train-the-trainer, contraceptive champion, and contraceptive community ambassador training

Organizational & Program Sustainability

CORE assists clinics to align and improve systems and policies with best practices in reproductive health, ensuring the infrastructure supports equitable contraceptive access. CORE is on a mission to bridge the implementation science gap from research and policy to provider-level knowledge. This includes supporting implementation of policy shifts, enhancing provider scope, and navigating reimbursement frameworks. Key focus areas include:

  • Assisting organizations in understanding changes to federal, state, and local funding landscapes

  • Assisting healthcare providers in implementing federal, state, and local reproductive health guidelines and policy

  • Training providers on Medicaid reimbursement improvement strategies, prioritizing access and quality

  • Expanding understanding and utilization of scope of practice for RNs, MAs, CHWs, and Health Educators in contraceptive care spaces

  • Encouraging use of AI in advancing contraceptive access

Ensuring long-term access to high-quality contraceptive care requires financial sustainability and strategic resource management. CORE’s priority concepts include:

  • Identifying funding opportunities to enhance reproductive health funding diversification

  • Supporting clinics in securing discounted rates for contraceptive methods through 340B and discount programs

  • Developing financial strategies to mitigate the impact of Medicaid reimbursement reductions

  • Increasing third-party payer revenue, including Medicaid

  • Improving billing and coding systems to maximize reimbursement and financial sustainability

  • Create a capable and resilient workforce sustainability plan addressing burnout, training pipelines, and retention