Planned Parenthood of Tennessee and North Mississippi
Programs
Budget
$580,000.00
Description
Our sex ed programs are comprehensive, easy-to-understand, and age-appropriate. They empower participants with medically accurate information about anatomy, STIs, birth control (including abstinence), communication and refusal skills, decision making, and more. Because laws in our area make it difficult to reach students directly in their schools, PPTNM uses peer education models to teach young people to teach each other. We also offer programs for parents, youth-serving professionals, Spanish speakers, and adults who are incarcerated or in drug/alcohol recovery programs. To complement our education programs, we run a state-wide condom distribution campaign to promote the accessibility, acceptability, and availability of safer-sex supplies.
Program Successes
Education in 2023: 118 education hours and 74 professional training hours delivered; 20 peer educators trained; 1,398 education session enrollees; and 885,271 condoms/safer sex supplies distributed for free.
Category
Education -
Beneficiaries
General Public
Adolescents
Long-term Success
We have served our communities for more than 30 years, providing unbiased, medically accurate, comprehensive sex education.
Short-term Success
We have recently hired a new Senior Manager of Health Education who is re-envisioning our programs based on community needs assessments and the latest in sexual health education best practices.
Program Success Monitored By
Victoria Freeland, Senior Manager of Health Education and Aimee Lewis, VP of External Affairs
Program Areas Served
None
$580,000.00
Description
Our sex ed programs are comprehensive, easy-to-understand, and age-appropriate. They empower participants with medically accurate information about anatomy, STIs, birth control (including abstinence), communication and refusal skills, decision making, and more. Because laws in our area make it difficult to reach students directly in their schools, PPTNM uses peer education models to teach young people to teach each other. We also offer programs for parents, youth-serving professionals, Spanish speakers, and adults who are incarcerated or in drug/alcohol recovery programs. To complement our education programs, we run a state-wide condom distribution campaign to promote the accessibility, acceptability, and availability of safer-sex supplies.
Program Successes
Education in 2023: 118 education hours and 74 professional training hours delivered; 20 peer educators trained; 1,398 education session enrollees; and 885,271 condoms/safer sex supplies distributed for free.
Category
Education -
Beneficiaries
General Public
Adolescents
Long-term Success
We have served our communities for more than 30 years, providing unbiased, medically accurate, comprehensive sex education.
Short-term Success
We have recently hired a new Senior Manager of Health Education who is re-envisioning our programs based on community needs assessments and the latest in sexual health education best practices.
Program Success Monitored By
Victoria Freeland, Senior Manager of Health Education and Aimee Lewis, VP of External Affairs
Program Areas Served
None
Budget
$645,000.00
Description
We believe that all people?no matter who they are, where they live, or what they earn?have the right to make decisions about their bodies without political interference. We're committed to shifting the cultural climate in favor of sexual and reproductive health, and our priority issues are:Health care access for allSafe and legal abortionComprehensive sex educationIn pursuit of these priorities, PPTNM uses community engagement strategies such as volunteer activation, outreach, neighborhood canvassing, town halls, and storytelling. For lobbying and electoral work, PPTNM collaborates with Tennessee Advocates for Planned Parenthood, a 501(c)4 social welfare nonprofit, and with Planned Parenthood Tennessee Action Fund, a 527 political action committee. Through community engagement and advocacy, we are reducing abortion stigma, spreading truth and knowledge, and training the next generation of advocates and activists.
Program Successes
Community Engagement/Advocacy in 2023: 223,061 TN and MS supporters; 1,006 volunteers; 7 Generation Action Chapters on college campuses; average of 30 advocacy trainings/events per month; 468 trained patient greeters and escorts; 942 supporters engaged with Raiz, our Spanish-language organizing program; and 538 people engaged through our B.L.A.C.K. Organizing program.
Beneficiaries
General Public
Black/African American
Hispanic/Latino/Latina/Latinx
Long-term Success
We have been building grassroots organizing across the state of Tennessee for the past 10+ years. Our supporters grow every year, and we are making gains in changing the public sentiment about abortion and reproductive rights in Tennessee.
Short-term Success
We worked with partnering organizations to lead protests and activism around our sister cause of gun control after the Covenant shootings and in protest of the ousting of the Tennessee Three. (Gun control is a reproductive rights issue, as we believe that people have the right to raise their families in a safe environment.) Our network of activists and supporters was activated in a way that allowed us to use our base to show support for other causes and gain new supporters of our own through shared alliances.
Program Success Monitored By
Francie Hunt, Director of Advocacy and Community Engagement
Program Areas Served
None
$645,000.00
Description
We believe that all people?no matter who they are, where they live, or what they earn?have the right to make decisions about their bodies without political interference. We're committed to shifting the cultural climate in favor of sexual and reproductive health, and our priority issues are:Health care access for allSafe and legal abortionComprehensive sex educationIn pursuit of these priorities, PPTNM uses community engagement strategies such as volunteer activation, outreach, neighborhood canvassing, town halls, and storytelling. For lobbying and electoral work, PPTNM collaborates with Tennessee Advocates for Planned Parenthood, a 501(c)4 social welfare nonprofit, and with Planned Parenthood Tennessee Action Fund, a 527 political action committee. Through community engagement and advocacy, we are reducing abortion stigma, spreading truth and knowledge, and training the next generation of advocates and activists.
Program Successes
Community Engagement/Advocacy in 2023: 223,061 TN and MS supporters; 1,006 volunteers; 7 Generation Action Chapters on college campuses; average of 30 advocacy trainings/events per month; 468 trained patient greeters and escorts; 942 supporters engaged with Raiz, our Spanish-language organizing program; and 538 people engaged through our B.L.A.C.K. Organizing program.
Beneficiaries
General Public
Black/African American
Hispanic/Latino/Latina/Latinx
Long-term Success
We have been building grassroots organizing across the state of Tennessee for the past 10+ years. Our supporters grow every year, and we are making gains in changing the public sentiment about abortion and reproductive rights in Tennessee.
Short-term Success
We worked with partnering organizations to lead protests and activism around our sister cause of gun control after the Covenant shootings and in protest of the ousting of the Tennessee Three. (Gun control is a reproductive rights issue, as we believe that people have the right to raise their families in a safe environment.) Our network of activists and supporters was activated in a way that allowed us to use our base to show support for other causes and gain new supporters of our own through shared alliances.
Program Success Monitored By
Francie Hunt, Director of Advocacy and Community Engagement
Program Areas Served
None
Budget
$5,400,000.00
Description
Our patients trust us to provide the health care they need at prices they can afford and with the respect they deserve. With your support, we provide our communities will a full spectrum of sexual/reproductive health care services, including family planning counseling and birth control; pregnancy testing and options counseling; gynecological care including Pap tests; clinical breast exams; emergency contraception; HIV testing and counseling; screening and treatment for sexually transmitted infections (STIs); transgender services; safer sex counseling; abortion services and/or referrals; and referrals for specialized care. We have four health centers across the state of Tennessee, and last year, we served over 10,000 unduplicated individuals from 157 counties in Tennessee, North Mississippi, and surrounding areas.
Program Successes
Health Centers in 2023: 10,711 unduplicated patients; 14,826 patient visits; 710 clinical breast exams; 25,390 HIV/other STI tests; 1,131 cycles of contraception; 2,728 long-acting reversible contraceptives; 2,181 emergency contraception kits; 41 PrEP/PEP patients; 2,004 gender-affirming hormone therapy visits; 227 PPDirect (asynchronous telehealth) patients; and 504 patients navigated for abortion services. We provided over half a million dollars in unreimbursed care.
Beneficiaries
General Public
LGBTQI+ people
Women and girls
Long-term Success
We have been providing health care in Tennessee for more than 80 years. We have been resilient in the face of challenges, particularly in the last several years when we withstood the arson of our Knoxville health center and the loss of abortion in Tennessee. We are still here for our patients, providing vital sexual and reproductive health care, and we're not going anywhere. Our motto is Care, No Matter What, and we live this out each day.
Short-term Success
We have launched a mobile health unit in Knoxville to serve our patients while we rebuild our physical health center. We have begun offering vasectomy services, along with hypertension care, colposcopy, and pregnancy dating. We have recently received Title X funding to offer free and reduced cost services to patients based on income and family size.
Program Success Monitored By
Ashley Coffield, CEO and Tarsha Elliott, CCO
Program Areas Served
None
$5,400,000.00
Description
Our patients trust us to provide the health care they need at prices they can afford and with the respect they deserve. With your support, we provide our communities will a full spectrum of sexual/reproductive health care services, including family planning counseling and birth control; pregnancy testing and options counseling; gynecological care including Pap tests; clinical breast exams; emergency contraception; HIV testing and counseling; screening and treatment for sexually transmitted infections (STIs); transgender services; safer sex counseling; abortion services and/or referrals; and referrals for specialized care. We have four health centers across the state of Tennessee, and last year, we served over 10,000 unduplicated individuals from 157 counties in Tennessee, North Mississippi, and surrounding areas.
Program Successes
Health Centers in 2023: 10,711 unduplicated patients; 14,826 patient visits; 710 clinical breast exams; 25,390 HIV/other STI tests; 1,131 cycles of contraception; 2,728 long-acting reversible contraceptives; 2,181 emergency contraception kits; 41 PrEP/PEP patients; 2,004 gender-affirming hormone therapy visits; 227 PPDirect (asynchronous telehealth) patients; and 504 patients navigated for abortion services. We provided over half a million dollars in unreimbursed care.
Beneficiaries
General Public
LGBTQI+ people
Women and girls
Long-term Success
We have been providing health care in Tennessee for more than 80 years. We have been resilient in the face of challenges, particularly in the last several years when we withstood the arson of our Knoxville health center and the loss of abortion in Tennessee. We are still here for our patients, providing vital sexual and reproductive health care, and we're not going anywhere. Our motto is Care, No Matter What, and we live this out each day.
Short-term Success
We have launched a mobile health unit in Knoxville to serve our patients while we rebuild our physical health center. We have begun offering vasectomy services, along with hypertension care, colposcopy, and pregnancy dating. We have recently received Title X funding to offer free and reduced cost services to patients based on income and family size.
Program Success Monitored By
Ashley Coffield, CEO and Tarsha Elliott, CCO
Program Areas Served
None
