Overview
This tool guides youth-supporting professionals in scanning the landscape of sexual and reproductive health care providers and services for youth within their communities.
As a landscape scan tool, it is designed to help these professionals think more deeply and to assess the multiple factors—or dimensions—that impact youth’s access to sexual and reproductive health services.
The tool features a step-by-step “how-to” section and reflection questions that youth-supporting professionals can use, whether individually or within their organizations, to gather relevant information about the sexual and reproductive health providers in their communities.
How to use this tool
- Identify providers in your community: Use online searches and/or your network to compile a list of sexual and reproductive health care service providers in your community (e.g., clinics, school-based health centers, hospitals). The list might include providers to whom you already refer youth for sexual and reproductive health care services and/or providers to whom you would like to begin referring youth.
- Complete the worksheet: Complete Section A: Exploring the Seven Dimensions for each sexual and reproductive health care service provider on your list that serves youth. For some questions, you may not know the answers—which is acceptable. Based on your responses to the guiding questions, select the option that best represents your assessment of the provider’s capacity to provide accessible care.
- Review and reflect: Review and reflect on your assessment using Section B: Reflecting on the Seven Dimensions. Some dimensions may be more critical than others to the youth you serve, and you may need to gather additional information on certain dimensions to better assess the questions for a comprehensive understanding. Periodically, update your understanding and reflect on each provider individually and on the collective network of providers in your community.
The information presented in this tool is based on a research summary from our previous resource describing the seven dimensions of access to sexual and reproductive health care.
Suggested citation: Offiong, A., Huang, L.A., Pruim, M., Wulah, A., Rust, K., & Tallant, J. (2024). Identifying accessible sexual and reproductive health resources in your community. Child Trends. https://activatecenter.org/resource/identifying-accessible-sexual-and-reproductive-health-resources-in-your-community
This page was last updated in September 2025.