Just the Basics: Confidentiality & Patient Privacy

Adolescents have privacy rights!  All health care providers can legally provide private and confidential services to minors.  Adolescents have guaranteed confidential services in all Wisconsin publically supported clinics that provide family planning, reproductive health/sexually transmitted disease services.

• Wisconsin Family Planning Program Confidentiality Requirements
   
• WCASA Guidelines on “Teens and the Law “: Wisconsin Coalition Against Sexual Assault (WCASA)
   
• Adolescent Access to Confidential Health Services: Advocates for Youth

• Client Rights Posters: WI Department of Health Services
   
• Authorization for Release of Medical Information

* = CEU/CHES Opportunity

* Ethical Dilemmas: Teen Sexual Abuse Reporting and Sexually Coercive Relationships