Our Impact in Tennessee
In Tennessee, Title X funds Converge to support a network of trusted health care providers that deliver high-quality, confidential, and affordable care to people in need. In 2024 alone, nearly 9,000 Tennesseans received more than 11,500 services through Converge's Title X grant. Most patients (90%) were uninsured or covered by public programs, and over half lived at or below the poverty line. These clinics help ensure that everyone, regardless of income or insurance status, can access the care they need to stay healthy and informed.
Ensuring that high-quality reproductive and sexual health care is not only affordable but sustainable and responsive to the lived experiences of women and men in the South.
Title X Resource Portal
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Go here for protected access to current resources and information related to Title X clinical practices and requirements.
Current and Prospective Providers
If you have questions about your Title X subaward or are interested in applying for Title X funds for your clinic in Tennessee, please contact Denise Diaz, Converge’s Title X Program Director, at ddiaz@convergeaccess.org.
Title X (ten) is a federal grant program that helps people access essential sexual and reproductive health care. For more than 50 years, the Title X family planning program has played a critical role in ensuring access to family planning and related preventive health services for millions of people with lower incomes or without insurance. Converge is a Title X grantee for Tennessee.
Learn more about Title X Service Grants here.
Converge is a Mississippi-based nonprofit working to ensure that everyone can access high-quality, person-centered sexual and reproductive health care—when, how, and where they need it. Rooted in the South and built for it, Converge partners with health care providers, insurers, and community organizations to reimagine a health care system that meets people where they are and reflects their real lives.
Through its clinical network spanning Mississippi and Tennessee, Converge strengthens local providers and ensures that sexual and reproductive health care in the South is not only affordable, but sustainable and deeply responsive to the people it serves.
Learn more about Converge here.
In March 2023, the Office of Population Affairs notified the Tennessee Department of Health that it did not plan to issue continued Title X funding due to the department’s non-compliance with Title X regulations.
To ensure continued access to quality family planning services throughout Tennessee, in September 2023, the Office of Population Affairs issued supplemental funding to both Converge and The Virginia League For Planned Parenthood. Converge funds a network of providers across Tennessee that provide high-quality family planning and reproductive health care to people in need.
If your agency is interested in learning more about Title X funds, please click here to fill out a brief survey. New sub-recipients participate in an onboarding period before they are expected to start providing services in accordance with Title X requirements. Converge expects to award sub-grant awards for this onboarding period in early 2024.
Title X provides essential funding to providers that are committed to delivering high-quality, affordable sexual and reproductive health care. Through Converge, providers in Mississippi and Tennessee receive support to expand access, strengthen sustainability, and deliver care that reflects the real lives of the people they serve.
Agencies can use Title X funds to pay for a variety of expenses. In addition to clinical services for uninsured and underinsured clients, Title X funds can cover staff training, quality assurance and quality improvement activities, program promotion and outreach, IT support, salaries and benefits, and other costs that support the delivery of Title X services.
All funds granted for Title X family planning service projects must be expended only for the purpose for which the funds were awarded and in accordance with the approved application and budget. Title X funds cannot be used:
- In a project where abortion is a method of family planning.
- For lobbying activities or advocacy.
- To purchase equipment.
Converge’s Title X project includes the following services:
- Contraceptive Care and counseling
- Wellness exams
- Breast and cervical cancer screenings
- Pregnancy testing and counseling
- STI screening and treatment
- HIV screening
- Fertility counseling and referral
- Preconception health and education
The following services are not covered by Converge’s Title X project:
- Primary care
- Abortion
- Colposcopy, LEEP of biopsies
- Extensive genetic counseling and evaluation
- Advanced infertility services
- Laboratory services alone
For additional information on required clinical services, see Family Planning and Related Preventive Health Services Checklists for Women and Men.
A family planning encounter is a documented contact between an individual and a family planning provider that is either face-to-face in a Title X service site or virtual using telehealth technology. The purpose of a family planning encounter is to provide family planning and related preventive health services to female and male clients who want to avoid unintended pregnancies or achieve intended pregnancies. In order to count as a family planning encounter, a written record of the services provided during the visit must be documented in the client record.
For additional information on how to determine which visits and clients qualify for the purposes of Title X reporting, see Understanding FPAR Definitions: What is a Family Planning Encounter and Who is a Family Planning User?
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