Services Overview
DSHS family planning agencies, in approximately 156 clinic sites, deliver preventive, medical, and educational services. Services are delivered to clients regardless of age, sex, marital status, number of children, method of birth control, handicaps, religion, income, ethnicity, or national origin. The DSHS family planning program provides services through contracts with local health departments, medical schools, hospitals, private non-profit agencies, and community and rural health centers. Services are confidential and voluntary (View a complete list of family planning services). No state or Federal family planning funds are used to pay for abortions. For more information visit the Texas Administrative Code web site.
Note: external links are not endorsed by the Texas Department of State Health Services. The Secretary of State's site may not reflect recent changes in the Texas Administrative Code.
Top of Page
Funding Sources Information
TITLE X - Public Health Service Act, 42 U.S.C. Section 300
TITLE XX - Social Services Block Grant, 42 U.S.C. Section 1397a
Title X - Public Health Service Act
The only Federal legislation that relates solely to family planning, including medical, educational and social services training, and research.
- Pays for infrastructure development and operating costs for family planning agencies.
- Supports population-based activities such as public education on reproductive health care issues, adolescent pregnancy prevention initiatives, male reproductive health projects, violence prevention strategies, technical assistance and training, quality assurance activities, research, and demonstration projects.
- DSHS receives an annual allocation of funds. Funds are distributed to contractor agencies after a competitive process.
- Monthly vouchers are submitted by agencies for cost reimbursement.
- No state match required.
Title XX - Social Services Block Grant (SSBG)
Provides individual and community-wide educational activities as well as family planning clinical services.
- Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC) receives annual Federal allocation. A portion is transferred to DSHS to provide family planning services. DSHS distributes to contractor agencies.
- Funds are supplemented by Temporary for Needy Families (TANF) funds, as authorized by the legislature.
- Reimbursement is fee-for-service.
- No state match required.
Top of Page