SC Campaign Annual Report 2012-2013 December 2013 | Page 6

$1.3 Million
Investment
In 2012-2013, the SC Campaign provided
more than $1.3 million in mini-grants to local
communities to support the implementation
and evaluation of evidence-based
interventions and promising practices. With
these funds:

10,775 youth
participated in an evidence-based

curricula funded by the SC Campaign

4,938
teens

received family
planning
services at
SC Campaign
partner clinics.

73 programs
received
funding
from the SC
Campaign in
‘12-’13

Programs that
received funding
from the SC
Campaign
represent

23 counties

THE POINT
One of the SC Campaign’s strategic goals is that young
people who are sexually active have access to condoms
and other forms of contraception. With that in mind, our
staff’s marketing efforts have focused on encouraging
teens to visit clinics. One of our more innovative efforts
was a series of ads in the local bus shelters, which showed
users what routes they could take to get to “The Point at
Tobias,” a partnering clinic in Spartanburg County.
The SC Campaign has also worked hard to increase the
capacity of clinic staff to meet the needs of adolescent
patients. From helping to ensure that clinics are teen
friendly to ensuring sexually active young people are
leaving the clinic with the most effective form of birth
control - our comprehensive efforts are making a
profound impact. Tobias has seen a substantial increase in
the number of adolescent patients who are choosing longacting reversible contraception (LARC). The implant and
IUD (LARC methods) are highly reliable and are great
contraceptive method choices for patients who wish to
delay childbearing for up to 10 years.
At Tobias, more than one in three (37%) patients under
the age of 20 have used a LARC method from July 2012
– June 2013. This far exceeds the state average of 5% of
female adolescent family planning patients (DHEC) on a
LARC method during the same time.

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