The Sexual Health Strategy has three priority areas:

1. To improve youth preconception health through reduction in unwanted teen births by:

   • Expanding and sustaining comprehensive sexual health education in middle and high schools;

   • Evaluating and expanding access to youth-friendly clinical services; and

   • Expanding opportunities for youth leadership development.
      

2. To support reproductive life planning by:

   • Implementing rights-based, justice-informed reproductive health framework as part of achieving race equity and eliminating health disparities;

   • Ensuring continued funding and availability of patient-centered, affordable health care and full range of contraception;

   • Expanding access to the full range of contraceptives in publicly-accessible clinics; regardless of income, age, insurance, or legal status;

   • Expanding sexual health information efforts to adults ages 20 and older; and

   • Standardizing family planning training and materials across BHB.
      

3. To address the sexual health needs of marginalized populations, such as:

   • Women who use substances and/or are undergoing treatment;

   • Incarcerated women;

   • Immigrant and refugee women;

   • Adult men and/or male partners;

   • Individuals on self-identify as LGBTQIA+; and

   • Youth in foster care.