News Release

HHS Awards New National Family Planning Training Center
Cooperative Agreement

10/18/2007

The Office of Population Affairs (OPA) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human
Services (HHS) today announced a cooperative agreement to develop and implement a
National Family Planning Training Center (NTC) with total funding of $500,000.

A nonprofit, Cicatelli Associates Inc. (CAI), located in New York City, is the recipient of
this competitive grant award. CAI has extensive expertise in all aspects of developing,
delivering, and evaluating training programs and conferences, and is also the Family
Planning Regional Training and Technical Assistance Center in HHS Region II, which
serves New York, New Jersey, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands.

The NTC will assist in the planning, development, and coordination of training activities
that will benefit personnel who carry out family planning service programs funded under
the Title X Family Planning Program. The Title X program is a Federal grant program
dedicated to supporting family planning services throughout the U.S., with priority for
serving individuals from low-income families. The new NTC will serve a national
network of family planning providers to ensure that Title X clients receive quality family
planning services.

To accomplish this, the new NTC plans to:
• Coordinate and promote sharing of resources and current, evidence-based
information among Title X-funded training entities;
• Maximize the impact of Title X family planning training activities by periodically
convening OPA Office of Family Planning staff, Title X-funded training entities,
Title X service grantees, and other experts in the field;
• Improve training on issues of broad impact and develop nationally-relevant
training resources; and
• Maximize existing public and private training resources that benefit Title Xfunded
programs.

Additional information about the Office of Population Affairs and its programs are
available at: http://opa.osophs.dhhs.gov/
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