Essential Access Health

Hawaii

Grantee Details

Fiscal Year: 2024
Annual Funding: $2,200,000
Website: https://www.essentialaccess.org/

Program Summary

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

Essential Access Health (Essential Access) is a non-profit organization that has been delivering Title X services in California for over 50 years. In 2022, Essential Access received funding to deliver the Title X program in Hawai'i. The program delivers services to approximately 26,000 persons annually through subrecipients, comprised of 14 agencies, including federally qualified health centers (FQHCs), a university health center, Planned Parenthood clinics and others, operating in 33 clinics across five of the seven inhabited Hawaiian Islands.1

Stats at a Glance2

  • Number of family planning (FP) encounters – 8,512
  • FP users with incomes below 100% Federal Poverty Level (FPL) – 1,824 (32%); all FP users with incomes below 250% of FPL – 2,432 (43%)
  • Number of tests performed for gonorrhea – 2,264, syphilis – 448, and HIV – 524
  • Number of female users who received a chlamydia test – 1,926 or a Pap test – 1,036

Overview of Services Offered

As a Title X recipient, Essential Access 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 Essential Access 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.