ANNEX TEEN CLINIC
Smart About Sex
Programs and results
What we aim to solve
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
Clinical Services & Health Education
Clinic Services:
Pelvic Exams, Pap Smears, Colposcopies
Birth Control Information Sessions
Birth Control
Emergency Contraception
Pregnancy Testing & All-Options Counseling
STI Testing & Treatment
HIV Testing
Health Education Services:
Puberty Education
Parent Education
Youth Development Programs
Comprehensive Sexuality Education Programs
Trainings for Professionals Community Presentations
Where we work
External reviews

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Our results
How does this organization measure their results? It's a hard question but an important one.
Number of patients who accessed healthcare services
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Young adults, Adolescents
Related Program
Clinical Services & Health Education
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Number of students who accessed sexual health education in schools
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Adolescents
Related Program
Clinical Services & Health Education
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Goals & Strategy
Learn about the organization's key goals, strategies, capabilities, and progress.
Charting impact
Four powerful questions that require reflection about what really matters - results.
What is the organization aiming to accomplish?
The Annex's vision is to be a catalyst for creating a community where all young people have the resources and support they need to successfully make the transition from adolescence to adulthood. We aim to improve the sexual health of adolescents and to be a clinic that parents trust.
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
The Annex will continue to make youth voice a priority in its programs, services, and operations. We will strengthen our commitment to the principles of positive youth development, youth-adult partnerships, and continuing education for all of our staff and volunteers. The Annex is proud to offer parent education programs and to provide the resources and support that parents need to be the primary sexuality educators of their children.
The Annex's 5-year strategic plan (2015-2020) includes 8 position statements with a variety of strategies to meet each one. The positions we aim to hold in 2020 are:
The Annex is an essential community provider of high quality, accessible services for adolescent sexual health.
Work is driven by positive youth development principles.
The Annex is a critical access point for advancing and coordinating young people's health and wellness goals.
Parents, professionals, and youth advocates consider the Annex a high quality resource on adolescent sexual health.
The public understands how the Annex positively contributes to young people's lives.
The Annex thrives on diverse and sustainable finances.
The Annex provides a challenging and supportive environment for mission-driven employees and volunteers.
Strong leaders promote innovation, embrace best practices, and ensure longevity.
What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
We have a 45-year history of partnering with young people to provide the confidential clinical services and factual information they need to make good decisions for themselves. With the completion of our new strategic plan, the Annex has made the strategic decision to remain focused solely on adolescent sexual health. At the same time, we've made the decision that partnerships with other youth serving organizations are critical to our ability to achieve positive sexual health outcomes. We know young people grapple with an array of interrelated needs, and these needs impact their sexual health outcomes. Because of our longstanding reputation as a trusted provider of confidential services, young people disclose their need for additional support (e.g. mental and chemical health, self-harm, abusive relationships, homelessness, and more). As such, the Annex is a critical access point for young people in need of additional services. We have made the strategic decision to focus exclusively on sexual health with the recognition that it needs to be done broadly and in partnership with other youth-friendly organizations.
We have rich and long standing relationships with numerous schools who depend on the Annex for the delivery of sexuality education in their curriculum. The Annex utilizes best practices to provide fact-based interactive education, and is able to respond to the schools' unique needs. One teacher noted: “Annex staff are professional, kind, and relevant. They know how to work with our student population and are able to deliver the sex education curriculum more effectively than our school's staff." These presentations provide the knowledge base for positive attitude and behavior change: 90% of participants report they are more knowledgeable and confident in their ability to prevent an infection or unintended pregnancy following an Annex presentation. Importantly, these community presentations connect young people to clinical services; over 50% of clinic patients report learning about the Annex through a classroom presentation. Informed young people make good decisions for themselves.
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
An over 40% decrease in the teen birth rate over the last 5 years is cause for celebration! However, there remain significant disparities in birth rates between white youth and youth of color. The Annex is proud to serve a diverse patient base and aims to reduce those disparities in the coming years.
We know there will always be a need for confidential, nonjudgmental sexual health services for adolescents. Establishing and maintaining trust with young people is imperative to delivering successful education and clinical services, and we are proud of our 45 year track record as a trusted provider.
How we listen
Seeking feedback from people served makes programs more responsive and effective. Here’s how this organization is listening.
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Who are the people you serve with your mission?
Young people in the Twin Cities Metro/Greater Minnesota
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How is your organization collecting feedback from the people you serve?
Electronic surveys (by email, tablet, etc.), Paper surveys, Suggestion box/email,
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How is your organization using feedback from the people you serve?
To identify and remedy poor client service experiences, To identify bright spots and enhance positive service experiences, To make fundamental changes to our programs and/or operations, To inform the development of new programs/projects, To identify where we are less inclusive or equitable across demographic groups, To strengthen relationships with the people we serve, To understand people's needs and how we can help them achieve their goals,
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What significant change resulted from feedback?
Moving towards more digital rather than physical resources for young people to take home so they can learn more about sexual health without having any physical evidence of accessing these services or acquiring this information.
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With whom is the organization sharing feedback?
Our staff, Our community partners,
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How has asking for feedback from the people you serve changed your relationship?
We center young people in all of our decision making and this allows us to better hear from them to understand their wants and needs, which allows us to better direct our decisions.
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Which of the following feedback practices does your organization routinely carry out?
We collect feedback from the people we serve at least annually, We take steps to get feedback from marginalized or under-represented people, We aim to collect feedback from as many people we serve as possible, We take steps to ensure people feel comfortable being honest with us, We look for patterns in feedback based on people’s interactions with us (e.g., site, frequency of service, etc.), We engage the people who provide feedback in looking for ways we can improve in response, We act on the feedback we receive,
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What challenges does the organization face when collecting feedback?
It is difficult to get the people we serve to respond to requests for feedback,
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Operations
The people, governance practices, and partners that make the organization tick.
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ANNEX TEEN CLINIC
Board of directorsas of 12/14/2021
Jocelyn Beard
Tubman
Term: 2021 - 2022
Barry Schade
Retired
Babra Mumia
St. Cloud University
Jessica Jerney
Ramsey County
Jocelyn Beard
Tubman
Scott Dyer
Retired
Chris Sullivan
Self Esteem Brands
Baye Diouf
University of Minneosta
Alissa Fountain
Children's Hospital of Minnesota
Jon Braman
University of Minnesota
Javiera Popelka
Hennepin Healthcare/Familia Solutions
April Foster
Project Success
Liz Corey
Minnesota Department of Health
Sandy Naughton
West Side Community Health Services
Board leadership practices
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Board orientation and education
Does the board conduct a formal orientation for new board members and require all board members to sign a written agreement regarding their roles, responsibilities, and expectations? Yes -
CEO oversight
Has the board conducted a formal, written assessment of the chief executive within the past year ? Yes -
Ethics and transparency
Have the board and senior staff reviewed the conflict-of-interest policy and completed and signed disclosure statements in the past year? Yes -
Board composition
Does the board ensure an inclusive board member recruitment process that results in diversity of thought and leadership? Yes -
Board performance
Has the board conducted a formal, written self-assessment of its performance within the past three years? Yes
Organizational demographics
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Sexual orientation
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Equity strategies
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- We review compensation data across the organization (and by staff levels) to identify disparities by race.
- We ask team members to identify racial disparities in their programs and / or portfolios.
- We disaggregate data to adjust programming goals to keep pace with changing needs of the communities we support.
- We employ non-traditional ways of gathering feedback on programs and trainings, which may include interviews, roundtables, and external reviews with/by community stakeholders.
- We have long-term strategic plans and measurable goals for creating a culture such that one’s race identity has no influence on how they fare within the organization.
- We use a vetting process to identify vendors and partners that share our commitment to race equity.
- We seek individuals from various race backgrounds for board and executive director/CEO positions within our organization.
- We have community representation at the board level, either on the board itself or through a community advisory board.
- We help senior leadership understand how to be inclusive leaders with learning approaches that emphasize reflection, iteration, and adaptability.
- We measure and then disaggregate job satisfaction and retention data by race, function, level, and/or team.
- We engage everyone, from the board to staff levels of the organization, in race equity work and ensure that individuals understand their roles in creating culture such that one’s race identity has no influence on how they fare within the organization.