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Causes: Children & Youth, Children & Youth Services, Family Planning, Health, Reproductive Health Care, Reproductive Rights
Mission: The mission of planned parenthood mar monte, inc. Is to ensure that every individual has the knowledge, opportunity, and freedom to make every child a wanted child, and every family a healthy family.
Programs: Patient services - 34 health centers and additional satellite service sites; annual gynecological exams; cancer screening & treatment; birth control and reproductive health care; pregnancy testing & counseling; hiv testing & counseling; menopausal services; general adult and pediatric health care; prenatal care; emergency contraception; male sterilization; medical & surgical abortions. During the year there were 418,184 visits.
education services - age/developmentally appropriate and medically accurate sex education services including preteen curriculum; middle school aged curriculum; male involvement programs; teen peer-to-peer education programs, parent/child communication education; teen success groups for teen mothers, and community outreach and referral. During the year there were 71,171 contacts.
public affairs - educate & lobby legislators about the importance of affordable, accessible health care at local, state & national levels; monitor legislative & judicial activities regarding reproductive choice; inform, educate & mobilize the community about issues affecting access to reproductive health care & education.