Thursday, April 24, 2025 (via Zoom)

11:30 AM – 1:00 PM Central Time

Up to 1.5 CME/CE credits

This free, CME/CE-accredited virtual training will review:

• Contraceptive considerations related to co-occurring medical conditions and medications commonly used by people with intellectual, developmental, and physical disabilities

• Caregiver roles, consent, menstruation, and exam accommodations

• How the medicalization of disability can contribute to ableism, stigma, and reproductive coercion

• Resources for implementing practice changes that facilitate the delivery of inclusive, person-centered care

Hosted by: The UCSF Bixby Center's Beyond the Pill program and UNM's Contraception Mentoring Program (formerly known as the UNM LARC Mentoring Program)

This session will review best practices and new developments in the provision of emergency contraception. Topics include dispelling myths, mechanisms of action, the role of BMI and weight, safety and side effects, and best practices. We will also discuss the resumption or initiation of hormonal contraception after the use of emergency contraceptive pills (ECP) and the evidence supporting advanced provision of ECP and the use of the LNG-IUD for emergency contraception.

Hosted by: The UCSF Bixby Center’s Beyond the Pill Program

Wednesday, May 22, 2024

10:00 AM - 12:00 PM Pacific Time

Up to 2 Credits

This session will review weight stigma, the Health at Every Size® framework, and best practices and updated evidence for the provision of contraception for patients with bigger bodies.

Join us Monday at 5:30 PM for our virtual workshop, 'Best Practices for Teen-Friendly Reproductive Health Care’. Come learn about emerging trends in reproductive health, needs that teens have in accessing care, and strategies to overcome those barriers!

Click here to attend: https://loom.ly/qepo9n0

Hosted by: The Sex Education Collaborative Education Workgroup
Presented by: Jess McIntosh (she/they)

Sex ed has found itself on the frontlines of the disinformation war — this session will break down the opposition's strategy, and teach you how to communicate with people who might have been frightened by bad information. There are ways to communicate with the stakeholders you need — we're going to offer tangible strategies and solutions to the toughest challenges and hardest conversations you have. You are powerful and you're not alone. 

Discussion to be led by: Mary Ott, MD, MA, Abigail English, JD, Sharon Enujioke, MD, MPH and Cathy Shubkin, MD, HEC-C
 

“Parents’ Rights” has recently featured prominently in legislation and court cases that affect the health and wellbeing of adolescents and young adults. Parents’ rights rationales have been used as a strategy to give parents’ increased control over curriculum and availability of library materials in schools, restrict adolescent minors’ ability to consent to their own health care, and restrict confidentiality protections. While adolescent health professionals value the role of parent guidance and support for young people, these developments are presenting adolescent health professionals with difficult ethical choices about how best to protect patients, interact with families, and comply with both evolving laws and their ethical obligations. The Ethics and Legal Issues SIG provides space for conversations about providers’ experiences and ways forward in challenging times.