NFP Methods and Instruction

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The following list of NFP providers offers a variety of practical and convenient options to learn a method of Natural Family Planning, including virtual online classes, self-paced learning, and live instruction from NFP practitioners.

Local Instructor in the Marquette Method of Natural Family Planning:

Kaitlyn Rohan, BSN, RN, CMSRN; NFP Instructor in the Marquette Method (Contact: rohan@mmnfp.com).

Kaitlyn offers live, in-person instruction as well as online classes in the Marquette Method, a a sympto-hormonal method of natural family planning (NFP). She prefers email and phone for quick questions and scheduling follow-ups.

All Marquette Method instructors are licensed healthcare professionals, and have completed the teacher training program through the Marquette University Institute for Natural Family Planning.

The Marquette Method uses two main indicators to determine fertility: cervical mucus observations and urinary hormone measurements. One or both signs are tracked based on user preference, and then combined with a simple protocol to determine the fertile window. The Marquette Method has optional instructions for incorporating basal body temperature (BBT), urine luteinizing hormone (LH) tests, and urine progesterone tests to help be more precise in identifying fertility.

CLICK HERE  for more information about Kaitlyn and the Whole Mission network of NFP-related services.

Marquette University College of Nursing Institute for NFP (MINFP)

P.O. Box 1881
Milwaukee, WI 53201-1881
(414) 288-3838
(414) 288-1939 FAX 

Website: http://www.marquette.edu/nursing/natural-family-planning/index.shtml
Email: richard.fehring@marquette.edu

• MINFP provides client education in the Marquette Model, a Sympto-Hormonal method of NFP. This method is similar to STM with the added feature of teaching electronic hormonal monitoring.

•  MINFP offers on-line client education (English and Spanish). To learn the method CLICK HERE.

Couple to Couple League (CCL) 

P.O. Box 111184
Cincinnati, Ohio 45211-1184
or:
4290 Delhi Pike
Cincinnati, OH 4523

Website: http://www.ccli.org
1-800-745-8252
Email: info@ccli.org

• CCL provides client education in the Sympto-Thermal Method (STM). STM is a multi-indexed method. It teaches detection of cervical mucus, the Basal Body Temperature and cervical changes besides other secondary fertility symptoms.

• Client education (English and Spanish) is provided by professionally certified teaching couples in their local areas or via live on-line classes. A Self-Paced Online Class is also an option; this is a video-based version of the live class, with support available through phone and e-mail contact.

Couple to Couple League NFP Courses for Engaged and Married Couples (NOTE: Please check all dates on the main CCLI.org website for the most accurate dates and information)

Couple to Couple League Main NFP Series

Class Series: #9206

This course allows you to learn on your own schedule, from anywhere with internet access. It is broken up into short, video-based modules with interactive exercises, and is a complete course in NFP. Register Here for this class.

Live Online Classes - Virtual

6901 Mercy Road 
Omaha, NE 68106 
Website: www.popepaulvi.com
(402) 390-9168 
(402) 390-9851 FAX 
Email: education@popepaulvi.com

Local Providers of NFP Instruction in the Creighton Model of NFP:

Kait Mayer, FertilityCare Practitioner
Totus Tuus Fertility Care; Princeton, NJ area
Kait@totustuusfertilitycare.org
908-596-9160

Arielle Kaminski
Certified FertilityCare Practitioner
Arielle.crms@gmail.com
732-586-2255

The Pope Paul VI Institute provides education in the Creighton Model FertilityCare^TMMethod of NFP. This is a cervical mucus detection method

• Both client and teacher education are offered.

• Teacher education is offered in the Spanish language.

• The PPVI Institute is accredited by the American Academy of FertilityCareTMProfessionals (AAFCP).

• The AAFCP maintains a list of certified Creighton Model FertilityCareTMteachers.

• A variety of educational programs are available for health care professionals, clergy and laity.

• Training in the innovative NaProTechnology, an ethical approach to womens' health care, is also provided to physicians. 

A variety of resources, including scientific research, is published by the PPVI Institute. Contact the Education department for further information.

FertilityCare Practitioners in the Philadelphia area:

Bucks County
-Elizabeth Parrish, RN, CFCP
fertilitycareservices@comcast.net
 215 - 249 – 9829
 
-Theresa Strenge, RN, CFCP
 tcstrenge@yahoo.com
 267-342-2512

Montgomery County
-Barbara Rose, CFCP, AGPCNP-BC
 savro@verizon.net
 215-884-2922

-Amy Salica, RN, FCPI
 amyj.salica@gmail.com
 215-620-7685
 
Philadelphia County
-Jane Hodges, RN, FCPI
 janehodgesfc@gmail.com
 267-882-7043

Creighton Model FertilityCare™ service providers are listed on the following website:   www.fertilitycare.org.

Creighton Model FertilityCare™ professionals work within a network of service programs developed and operated by specialists in FertilityCare™ education. All of the specialists listed, FertilityCare™ Practitioners and Creighton Medical Consultants, have received their training in a program whose professional curriculum was developed at the Creighton University School of Medicine, Omaha, Nebraska.  

The following list includes both FertilityCare™ Practitioners and Creighton Medical Consultants for the Philadelphia five county area and neighboring counties, including New Jersey. For a brochure explaining Creighton Model FertilityCare™ services and NaProTechnology for Catholic couples struggling with infertility in the Greater Philadelphia area click here and here.

                                                                                                                                              Billings Ovulation Method Association – USA (BOMA-USA)

P.O. Box 2135
St. Cloud, MN 56302
Website: www.boma-usa.org
(651) 699-8139
(320) 654-6486 FAX 
Email: boma-usa@msn.com

• BOMA provides client education in the Billings Ovulation Method^TM (BOM^TM). BOM^TM is a cervical mucus method created by the Drs. John and Evelyn Billings of Melbourne, Australia. BOMA-USA is the only authorized representative of the BOM^TM in the United States.

• Distance learning for client education is provided through WOOMB-International at http://www.thebillingsovulationmethod.org or www.fertilitypinpoint.com. Multi-languages are available.

Family of the Americas Foundation (FAM)

P.O. Box 1170
Dunkirk, MD 20754

Website: http://www.familyplanning.net
(301) 627-3346 (301) 627-0847 FAX
Email: familyplanning@yahoo.com

• FAM provides client education in the cervical mucus method. This approach to NFP is founded on the work of the Drs. Billings.

• FAM offers a client correspondence course via the US Postal system. An interactive CD program is an added feature of this curriculum. The Spanish language and multi-languages are available.

Website: http://www.nfpandmore.org.

• Natural Family Planning International provides high quality and low cost instruction about Natural Family Planning in the context of Christian discipleship and the moral teaching of the Catholic Church. "Natural Family Planning" includes both ecological breastfeeding and systematic natural family planning. This not-for profit organization was started in 2004 by John and Sheila Kippley on the basis of their 33 years of experience in teaching and writing about natural family planning. Via the internet NFPI makes NFP instruction available all throughout the world.

the NFPI Home Study Course is conducted with personal attention via email., using the The NFPI manual, Natural Family Planning: The Complete Approach, http://www.nfpandmore.org/NFPI_Home_Study_Course.pdf
 

Catholic Couples NFP - Free NFP Classes for Catholic Couples

CCNFP was formed to teach Catholic Couples the latest developments in natural family planning (NFP).

NFP can be used by married Catholic Couples in full harmony with Church Teaching.
The original NFP science was developed by Drs. John and Evelyn Billings in the 1950’s. The original method relied on cervical mucus observations to predict and confirm ovulation. This science has been supplemented by the use of basal body temperature and reproductive hormone charting.

Our program, sometimes in partnership with Catholic dioceses, is offered, including full fertility awareness training over 13 weeks, without any charge, to married Catholic couples.

Catholic Couples NFP is sponsored by the St. Augustine Foundation (SAF), an association of lay Catholic men and women. SAF’s mission is to assist Catholics to live virtuous lives following Catholic Church Teaching.

Catholic Couples NFP
St. Augustine Foundation
538 Riverdale Avenue
Yonkers, New York 10705
(914) 613-5510
Info @CCNFP.org

Other resources..................A variety of NFP related resources and a national directory of NFP only physicians can be found at the website of One More Soul (OMS): https://onemoresoul.com.
OMS is a non-profit organization dedicated to education on NFP and Catholic teaching which support its use in marriage.
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