Planned Parenthood Of The Columbia Willamette Inc

Programs: Patient services - annually, more than 60,000 women, men and teens visit one of ppcw's 6 health centers in oregon and southwest washington for compassionate reproductive health care. Patients receive affordable contraceptives, emergency contraception, annual gynecological check-ups, breast exams, cervical cancer detection and treatment, std testing and treatment, vasectomy, female sterilization, and pregnancy testing and options counseling and preventative health counseling. Less than five percent of ppcws services are for early-abortion care.

through a contract with another planned parenthood affiliate, ppcw provides wyman's teen outreach program (top) which is a comprehensive youth development strategy that promotes the positive development of adolescents through a combination of curriculum-guided group discussion and community service learning. The program provides teens with the necessary support and opportunities to prepare for successful adulthood and avoid problem behavior. Ppcw also provides peer education programs in portland and woodburn. In these programs, small groups of highly trained and motivated teens reach out to their peers in informal settings spreading knowledge and skills to help teens develop healthy sexual attitudes and behaviors.

public affairs - the public affairs program provides information, support, and training that helps ppcw supporters influence public policy and the legislative process. Ppcw works with local, state and national officals and through public information and grassroots organizing to make sure that reproductive health care is recognized as a basic and fundamental health-care service, to improve access to family planning services, to improve the availability and accuracy of sexuality education in public schools, to keep abortion safe and legal, and to reduce teen pregnancy rates in oregon and sw washington.