1. Grant Programs
  2. Title X Service Grants
  3. Delaware Health and Social Services

Delaware Health and Social Services

Delaware

Grantee Details

Fiscal Year: 2024
Annual Funding: $1,133,730
Website: https://www.dhss.delaware.gov/dhss/dph/chca/dphfpservices1a.html

Program Summary

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

The Delaware Health and Social Services (DHSS) is a state agency that has been providing Title X services since the 1970s throughout the state of Delaware. DHSS serves approximately 12,000 clients annually through subrecipients that serve clients in hospitals, federally qualified health centers (FQHCs), school-based health centers, primary care associations, and nonprofit organizations.1

Stats at a Glance2

  • Number of family planning (FP) encounters – 18,493
  • FP users with incomes below 100% Federal Poverty Level (FPL) – 6,738 (67%); all FP users with incomes below 250% of FPL – 8,800 (87%)
  • Number of tests performed for gonorrhea – 5,605, syphilis – 2,880, and HIV – 3,887
  • Number of female users who received a chlamydia test – 3,934 or a Pap test – 1,222

Overview of Services Offered

As a Title X recipient, DHSS 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 list below is an Overview of Services Offered within the DHSS 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.