1. Grant Programs
  2. Title X Service Grants
  3. Action for Boston Community Development, Inc.

Action for Boston Community Development, Inc.

Massachusetts

Grantee Details

Fiscal Year: 2024
Annual Funding: $1,025,000
Website: https://bostonabcd.org/service/healthfamily-planningoverview

Program Summary

Map showing service sites for the grant recipient and population per square mile.

Action for Boston Community Development (ABCD) is a nonprofit organization that has been a Title X grant recipient since the early 1980s. It delivers services to approximately 27,000 clients through subrecipient agencies and direct service sites, including federally qualified health centers (FQHCs), community health centers, school-based health centers (SBHCs), and two hospitals in the Greater Boston Area.1

Stats at a Glance2

  • Number of family planning (FP) encounters – 20,650
  • FP users with incomes below 100% Federal Poverty Level (FPL) – 10,831 (83%); all FP users with incomes below 250% of FPL – 12,138 (93%)
  • Number of tests performed for gonorrhea – 3,828, syphilis – 793, and HIV – 3,198
  • Number of female users who received a chlamydia test – 2,416 or a Pap test – 787

Overview of Services Offered

As a Title X recipient, ABCD provides a broad range of FP services including pregnancy prevention and birth spacing, pregnancy testing and counseling, assistance to achieve pregnancy, basic infertility services, sexually transmitted infection (STI) services, and other preconception health services. The services are voluntary, confidential, and provided regardless of ability to pay.3 The infographic below is an Overview of Services Offered within the ABCD network. The data shown below are not specific to any particular site but rather are representative of the broader grantee network. For information on services available at individual service sites, please refer to the OPA clinic locator.

  • Counseling on achieving pregnancy
  • Preconception health services
  • Pregnancy testing and counseling
  • Basic infertility services
  • FDA approved long-acting contraceptives
  • FDA approved short-acting contraceptives
  • Natural family planning methods
  • STI and HIV education and counseling
  • STI and HIV screening and testing
  • STI and HIV treatment
  • STI self-testing
  • Expedited partner therapy
  • PrEP counseling and risk assessment
  • PrEP prescription services
  • PEP counseling
  • PEP prescription services
  • Screening for breast cancer
  • Screening for cervical cancer
  • HPV vaccinations
  • Screening for intimate partner violence
  • Screening for mental health
  • Screening for obesity
  • Screening for smoking, drug, and alcohol use
  • Adolescent-friendly health services

Footnotes

1 Source: Data collected by Mathematica in 2023 for the Title X Implementation Study.

2 Source: Family Planning Annual Report (FPAR): 2022 National Summary.

3 See the Title X Service Grants web page for more information on the requirements and regulations guiding Title X projects.