Location
New York, NY
About the Organization
New York Presbyterian Hospital and the Mailman School of Public Health’s Center for Community Health and Education (CCHE) provides reproductive health services to young men ages 14 to 30 in the Washington Heights area of New York City.
Goal of the Project
The project goals are to: 1) engage and retain previously underserved men in reproductive health care; 2) reduce sexually transmitted infections (STIs) among clinic patients seen at the Young Men’s Clinic (YMC) by 50%; 3) increase by 25% the number of not yet sexually active young men who choose to delay onset of sexual activity; and 4) increase by 25% the percentage of sexually active men who consistently use condoms or whose partners consistently use contraception.
Approach of the Project
The agency will develop and implement a community-based research project that will investigate best practices in providing young men with high quality, effective, and cost-effective family planning services. CCHE will operate and provide data collection and analysis for two project components: the Young Men’s Clinic and a School-Based Health Clinic (SBC). The project has projected that over a five-year period it will serve 7,800 men. CCHE uses the Theory of Reasoned Action/ Theory of Planned Behavior.