Presentation on 3/12/2012 for a National Coalition of STD Directors Sponsored Site Visit to the Annex Teen Clinic for the 2012 National STD Prevention Conference held in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The Annex Teen Clinic is a sexual health clinic serving young people of Northwest Hennepin County and North Minneapolis. The Annex provides low cost, sexuality-related health care, education, counseling and outreach to adolescents. The Annex provides a full range of low cost family planning services for teens including clinical services, referrals, follow-up and education. All programs are designed to reinforce preventive behaviors that will decrease the incidence of unintended pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections. www.annexteenclinic.org

1. Clinic Initiatives
Eric Meininger, MD, MPH
Medical Director

2. Diversity of Our Staff
Purposeful steps to create an employment
environment that reflects our clients
Ongoing dialogues and training to know and
understand staff and the youth we serve better
Working together to accomplish a common objective

3. 25>Total
Unknown
75 3344
657 <44
45-85114
3511--10
1 64
- 74
84
5-6 2
2%0%
0%
1%
1%
1%
15 - 17
22 - 24
19%
25%
18 - 19
25%
Demographics 20 - 21
26%
Age

4. Demographics
750 1125 1500
0 375
Female
Gender
Male

5. 23%
White
1% Black or African American
47% American Indian or Native Alaskan
6%
Asian
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander
More than One Race Reported
11% Other & Unknown
11%
Demographics
Race

6. STD Rates per 100,000
Minnesota Teens 20-24
Annex, all ages
US Teens 20-24
15,000
12599
11,250
7,500
3,750 3407 1322 561
237
0 1652 Gonorrhea
Chlamydia
Demographics
STD rates

7. Annex Programs and
Connections
Youth Advisory Council
Better Together - staff embedded in high school
Teen Outreach Program (TOP)
Response To Intervention (RTI) strengths-based framework
Embedded in the schools
REACH - faith based, intergenerational, celebration of change
HIV outreach

8. Clinic-based programs
Birth control classes
Express pill pickup
MAnnex
Volunteer program
Safer Sex Initiative
Urine based STD screening outreach pilot

9. Testing Modalities
Urine based GC/CT screening
self-collect versus provider collect
GC/CT for women
New guidelines for Pap screening
Male outreach and consistent male
providers

10. Birth Control
Birth control consult visit
Express pill pickup
Pregnancy testing visit (nurse-only)
Emergency contraception

11. Questions?