Thanks to ABCD Family Planning Services, the Boston Children’s Hospital Division of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine is able to provide free and confidential reproductive health counseling services. These services include sexual health counseling; HIV testing, prevention education, and treatment; comprehensive contraceptive counseling, including emergency contraception; pregnancy testing and counseling; sexually transmitted infection (STI) counseling, testing, and treatment; health exams including Pap tests; and future family planning.
Family planning services are free and based on only your consent, so you do not need the permission of a parent or a guardian for a visit. Information about your family planning visit will not be shared with anyone, including your parents or guardian, without your permission (with a few exceptions to this basic rule). You, the patient, will be leading your visit and in charge of your reproductive future.
Currently we are able to offer contraception options including combined hormonal contraceptives (birth control pill, patch, or ring); progestin-only pills; contraception injections (Depo Provera); intrauterine devices (IUDs, including both hormonal and non-hormonal options); the contraceptive implant (Nexplanon); and condoms. You can be seen in person or virtually, depending on your specific needs, by our providers, nurses, and certified family planning counselors.
Services are available to all teens and young adults regardless of their race, immigration status, income, gender, and sexual identity or orientation. You are not required to be a Boston Children's Hospital Adolescent Medicine patient or to bring insurance documents to receive these services. Members of our staff speak English and Spanish, and an interpreter is also available for other languages such as Arabic, Haitian Creole, Portuguese, and more.
Please call our office at 617-355-7181 for more information about the program, or to make an appointment with one of our family planning counselors.
