Since the 1970's, New Jersey has shown a strong commitment to expanding and improving the quality of family planning services throughout the state. Our goal is to provide each client with the necessary information and education to make personal choices about their family planning needs.
This web page will help direct you to the family planning providers and services in New Jersey that can help you. It will also link you to other sources of reproductive health-related information and statistics.
What is Family Planning?
- Family Planning is a preventive health service that provides quality, low cost, and easily accessible reproductive health care to women and men during their reproductive years.
- Family Planning services are confidential.
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- Everyone has the right to informed consent regarding their reproductive choices and birth control methods. Family Planning provides clients with the information and counseling needed to do this.
- Services are provided at reasonable rates based on a sliding fee scale according to income. No one is refused services because they cannot pay.
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- Family Planning does not discriminate on the basis of age, sex, race, color, religion, national origin, income, marital status, number of pregnancies, or contraceptive choice(s).
- Teens are welcome and can receive confidential care
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Family Planning Services Are Much More Than You Think
All services include but are not limited to the following:
MEDICAL SERVICES
- Comprehensive physical exams & health screenings & referrals
- Pelvic and breast exams
- Pap smear
- Blood pressure & weight check
- Pregnancy testing & options counseling
- Preconceptual counseling
- Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STDs)
On-site diagnosis & treatment
- Birth control instruction & counseling
- Adolescent risk reduction counseling
- Infertility education and referral
- Emergency contraception
SPECIAL SERVICES (not available at all sites)
- Prenatal care & delivery program
- HIV testing & counseling
(Confidential testing for both you and your partner)
- Colposcopy & Cryotherapy & L.E.E.P. (Loop Electrosurgical Excision Procedure)
(Testing & Treatment for pre-cancerous conditions of the cervix)
- Male services
- Teen services
- Prenatal substance abuse programs
- Mid-Life services
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COMMUNITY EDUCATION SERVICES
- Workshops for schools, community groups, and others
- Consultation and training for professionals
- Parent education programs
- Parent education programs
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Here are the phone numbers to call for more information:
NJ Department of Health & Senior Services
Family Planning Program
609-292-8104 |
NJ Family Planning League
973-622-2425 |
Family Planning Association of NJ
609-393-3268 |
NJ Family Health Line
1-800-328-3838 |
Family Planning Agency Directory:
We Are Committed to Your Needs
We strive to provide honest information and answers so that clients can exercise personal choice in determining their family planning needs.
We provide confidential services and are committed to protecting the privacy and dignity of all clients.
We are affordable and accessible. ALL Family Planning clients regardless of their ability to pay are eligible to receive services.
We support the client’s right to choose where to receive family planning services. Those who are enrolled in a Medicaid Health Maintenance Organization (HMO) are entitled to receive reproductive health services at any state-supported family planning clinic.
These links will take you to sources of information and statistics related to reproductive health care:
NJ DHSS Center for Health Statistics
http://www.state.nj.us/health/chs/hlthstat.htm
Above link takes you to a web page with links to NJ health statistics for 1993 through the most recent year available.
Alan Guttmacher Institute
http://www.agi-usa.org
Above link takes you to the main web page for the Alan Guttmacher Institute, a nonprofit organization focused on sexual and reproductive health research, policy analysis and public education.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS): ‘Fast Stats’ for Reproductive Health
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/reproduc.htm
Above link takes you to the CDC NCHS ‘Fast Stats’ for Reproductive Health web page which has links to national sources of data and research about reproductive health and family planning.
Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), Public Health Service (PHS), Office of Population Affairs (OPA), Office of Family Planning:
http://opa.osophs.dhhs.gov/titlex/ofp.html
Above link takes you to the main web page for the DHHS, PHS, OPA Office of Family Planning, authorized under Title X of the Public Health Act of 1970 to fund and support family planning services in the US .
National Family Planning and Reproductive Health Association (NFPRHA):
http://www.nfprha.org
Above link takes you to the main web page for NFPRHA, a national non-profit membership organization that represents the US family planning field, including clinicians, administrators, researchers, educators, advocates and consumers.
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