AccessMatters
Transforming Access to Sexual and Reproductive Health
Programs and results
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Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
Providing Direct Health Services
AccessMatters provides guidance, referrals, testing, and case management directly to clients through public health programs and AccessMatters’ Information Hotline. AccessMatters' patient navigation programs provide warm referrals, individualized support for appointments, and linkage to care for services related to family planning, HIV prevention or treatment, substance use disorder, and breast and cervical cancer screening among other services. AccessMatters also provides community outreach, information, and education services through AccessMatters’ Information Hotline. The hotline, with both phone and text capability, fields over 2,600 requests annually – answering questions, providing health counseling, and making referrals to care on issues ranging from STIs to adolescent health to birth control and consent. AccessMatters’ Information Hotline is staffed by trained counselors who provide compassionate, confidential, and comprehensive information and referrals for services.
Supporting a Healthcare Provider Network
AccessMatters provides funding and specialized support for network partner organizations working in the community. The Organization anchors a broad network of over 50 healthcare provider organizations, providing community-based sexual and reproductive health care, supporting them with grant funding, quality management, and guidance on best practices in care and delivery.
AccessMatters' Title X Family Planning Program
AccessMatters’ Title X Family Planning Program – supports a network of healthcare provider organizations serving over 67,000 people – the majority living at or near the Federal Poverty level - with confidential, high-quality, patient-centered sexual and reproductive health services. These vital services include the following: affordable FDA-approved birth control, pregnancy planning, breast and cervical cancer screening, testing and treatment for sexually transmitted infections (STIs), HIV testing, and referrals for other critical services such as prenatal care, substance use disorder treatment, and primary care.
Adolescent Health Services
Along with providing adolescent health services through the Title X Family Planning clinic-based sites, AccessMatters manages a statewide network of Health Resource Centers serving young people in Pennsylvania schools and communities. AccessMatters also hosts the Philly Youth Power (PHLYP) Project, serving youth in systems of care in Philadelphia. Collectively, these programs serve close to 24,000 youth aged 13-24.
HIV Services
AccessMatters manages the Ryan White Part D HIV services network in Philadelphia serving women, infants, children, and youth who are living with HIV with comprehensive, family-centered primary and specialty care supports.
Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection & Prevention
AccessMatters hosts the Pennsylvania Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program in Southeastern Pennsylvania which reaches uninsured or underinsured people with early detection and treatment services. Read more: https://www.accessmatters.org/earlydetection/
Pennsylvania Perinatal Partnership
The Pennsylvania Perinatal Partnership, a program of AccessMatters, is a collaborative group of perinatal and family health professionals and organizations who partner to improve health outcomes for people who are pregnant or postpartum and their children through education, advocacy, and collaboration.
Research, Evaluation & Data
AccessMatters trains organizations in best practices, researches public health issues, and evaluates quality of care. The organization centers health equity, breaks down stigma, ensures confidentiality, and works to normalize discussions of sexuality and the provision of sexual and reproductive health services.
AccessMatters supports long-standing, nationally-recognized research, evaluation, training, and quality management programs, providing tailored solutions for hundreds of healthcare and social service providers – helping people and organizations do their part to eliminate systemic racism and other oppressions, and work in trauma-informed and client-centered ways.
Through research, AccessMatters evaluates healthcare providers’ success in implementing best practices and assesses the effectiveness of innovative interventions. AccessMatters conducts community-informed research, program evaluation, and needs assessments, frequently partnering with leading academic institutions.
Training
AccessMatters provides critical professional development training – on topics related to sexual and reproductive health, client-centered care, health equity, and social determinants of health, including racism – to thousands of health, medicine, and human service providers as well as staff of foundations, corporations, and government agencies locally, regionally, and nationally.
Advocacy
AccessMatters recognizes the need for ongoing advocacy to underscore the importance of continued funding and support for this vital work and speaks out to shape opinion and policy on key issues. Since the start, AccessMatters has held a firm belief that access to sexual and reproductive health care is key to a person’s overall health and well-being, and that advocacy is key to securing access.
By serving people directly and providing specialized support to a broad network of healthcare providers, AccessMatters is attuned to the profound impact of public policy on service delivery and access at every level. The organization weighs in on local, state, and national policy, outlining effective policy change and program strategy to address the issues that impact AccessMatters’ programs and the people they serve.
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AccessMatters
Board of directorsas of 01/02/2024
Sara Woods
Philadelphia VIP
Term: 2020 -
Nicole Bradley
Evolvr, a Publicis LifeBrands agency
Frances Burns
Philadelphia Industrial Development Corporation
Caitlin Goldwater Coslett
Berger & Montague, P.C.
Michelle Histand
Independence Blue Cross (IBX)
Alycia Kinchloe
Kinchloe Law, LLC
L’Oreal McCollum
City of Philadelphia’s Department of Behavioral Health & Intellectual disAbility Services
Kerry Slade
Klehr Harrison Harvey Branzburg LLP
Sara Woods
Philadelphia VIP
Ellen Fernberger
Human Resources Consultant
Kiana Muhly
Self-Employed Certified Public Accountant