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Causes: Family Planning, Food, Health, Nutrition, Reproductive Health Care, Reproductive Rights
Mission: Family planning is a non-profit health care organization dedicated to providing confidential and accessible services through reproductive health and wic nutritional services to improve the quality of life and well-being of the community. The caring staff seeks to help couples plan families when they are ready, improve pregancy outcomes, improve maternal & child health, reduce unintended pregnancy, slow the spread of sexually transmitted diseases, detect cancer at early and curable stages, and educate the community about general health maintenance, sexuality, and reproductive health.
Programs: Family planning operates four reproductive health care clinics, four std testing and treatment clinics, a teen services clinic, five wic (women, infants, and children) program clinics, and an education center. Family planning proivdes reproductive health care services to over 2,000 clients, wic program services to approximately 5,000 eligible women, infants, and children each month, and educational services to an average of 1,000 community members per year. Our clinics offer reproductive health care and crucial cancer screening services to women of all ages and incomes. Services include clinical breast exams, pap tests, pelvic exams, pregnancy tests, diagnosis and treatment of vaginal infections, and provision of birth control. No one is ever refused services due to inability to pay. Fees are based on household size and gross income. Many individuals qualify for free or reduced fee services. Std testing and treatment services are available to both males and females. Wic program services offer nutrition education and supplemental foods to eligible pregnant, post-partum, and breastfeeding women and their children under five.