Family Planning Elevated: Initiative Evaluation

Family Planning Elevated (FPE) is a statewide contraceptive initiative with two primary aims: 1) supporting existing and proposed legislative policy that expands family planning services in Utah among low-income individuals covered by contraceptive legislation (currently individuals at ≤100% federal poverty) and 2) demonstrating additional existing service need among low-income individuals who currently fall in the contraceptive coverage gap (101%-250% federal poverty). Family Planning Elevated provides contraceptive grants, education and training, and technical assistance on comprehensive contraceptive care to participating clinics. The purpose of this evaluation is to assess the effect of FPE on clinic-level family planning service delivery among low-income women who fall in the contraceptive coverage gap compared to those receiving services from matched control clinics which did not receive the intervention. To assess these effects, FPE will collect monthly family planning service delivery data from both intervention and control clinics, beginning 12 months prior to the FPE intervention, and following for 12 months after the FPE intervention ends. A difference-in-difference analysis will compare trends and level-changes in family planning services provided to intervention and control groups.