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• About Teen Clinic
• Education Services - PDF: Sex Education Consent Form
• Clinical Services - PDF: Teen Clinic 2019-2020 Schedule
  • Birth Control - PDFs: Self Consent / Permission to Treat
  • STI Testing / Treatment
  • Pregnancy Testing
  • Other testing
  • Emergency contraception (Plan B) - PDF:
  • Free internal and external condoms, lubricant, dental dams, etc.
• Additional services
• Contact us directly or through social media

 

About Teen Clinic

Teen Clinic is a program by Variety Care established in 2011 to empower youth with medically accurate sexual health education and accessible support services.  Our program consists of Adolescent Health Specialists, a Clinical Access Coordinator, and a Manager of Adolescent Health Education.  Teen Clinic is in a collaboration of partnering organizations participating in the sexual health collective for youth known as THRIVE.

 

Why Teen Clinic?

• Oklahoma is consistently in the top five states for highest teen birth rates in the United States.
• Teen parents are more likely to drop out of high school, and even less likely to graduate.  Teen mothers are likely to have a second unplanned pregnancy.
• The current generation of teens and young adults are the first to see an increase in HIV infections since the early 1990s.
• Youth ages 15-24 make up just over ¼ of the sexually active population, but account for ½ of the 20 million new sexually transmitted infections that occur in the US each year.

 

What We Do:

 

Education Services:

Teen Clinic by Variety Care provides evidence-based sexual health curricula to students in Oklahoma County.

 

Topics covered include:

• Healthy Relationships
• Unplanned Pregnancy Prevention
• STI Prevention
• Goal Setting
• Consent

 

In accordance with state law, it is our policy that every student receiving sexual health education have a signed consent form on file.  Students may self-consent if they are 18 or older, emancipated, or pregnant and/or parenting, otherwise consent forms must be signed by a parent or legal guardian.  A PDF version of the sex education consent form is available here.

 

Clinical Services:

Teen Clinic provides after-school clinics twice a month at Variety Care for youth ages 13-19.  The after-school clinic events offer sexual and reproductive health services from teen-friendly medical providers at no cost to teens.  Services are provided on a first come, first serve basis.  Teen Clinic dates and locations for the 2019-2020 school year can be found here

 

Birth Control:

• Long acting reversible contraceptives (LARCs): Intrauterine Devices (IUDs) and the Hormonal Implant (Nexplanon)
• Traditional methods: The Shot (Depo-Provera), birth control pills, vaginal ring (Nuva Ring), and the hormonal patch
  
  ** Minors may require parental consent to access birth control methods, please review Oklahoma’s Minors Rights to Self-Consent regarding birth control.  If a minor does not meet the qualifications for self-consent, they can bring a Permission to Treat Student form signed by their parent/guardian with them to the Teen Clinic event or bring a parent/guardian to provide parental consent.

 

STI Testing/Treatment:

• Routine tests: Chlamydia, Gonorrhea, Hepatitis B and C, HIV, and Syphilis

• Additional screenings available upon request: Herpes, Trichomoniasis, and Pubic Lice

 

* Any person in the state of Oklahoma may self-consent to STI testing and treatment regardless of age*

 

Pregnancy Testing

Testing for bacterial vaginosis, yeast infection or urinary tract information

Emergency Contraception also known as Plan B

 

Free internal and external condoms, lubricant, dental dams, etc.

 

Additional Services:

• Goody bags at Variety Care locations – Any teen or young person can go to the front desk at any Oklahoma City or Norman Variety Care locations and ask for a “goody bag”, which is a bag of 10 external condoms.
• Teen Parent Coordinators employed by both Variety Care and OKCPS who can assist pregnant and/or parenting teens who attend a school within the OKCPS district with accessing resources.
• North Side schools: 405-205-1399
• South Side schools: 405-628-2783
• 24/7 text hotline (405) 882-3598 for youth to ask questions regarding sexual health or to get help accessing services.
• Any teen age 13-19 can text the Teen Clinic hotline to access emergency contraception from a Variety Care pharmacy.
  * Any person in the state of Oklahoma may self-consent to emergency contraception regardless of age *

 

 

Contact Us:

 

• Facebook - Teen Clinic by Variety Care
• Instagram - @TeenClinicOK
• Twitter - @TeenClinicOK
• 24/7 Text Hotline: 405-882-3598
• Manager of Adolescent Health Education: Kali Parks, M.Ed. 405-632-6688 ext. 3001 or kparks@varietycare.org
• Clinical Access Coordinator: Holly Parker, CHES. 405-632-6688 ext. 3014 or hcureton@varietycare.org