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2018 ANNUAL REPORT UPPER HUDSON PLANNED PARENTHOOD Table of Contents More than ever before, Planned Parenthood is putting the tools people need to live healthy lives Message from Our Leadership 4 directly into their hands. Whether they are getting Impact of Services 5 sexual and reproductive health information from PlannedParenthood.org, booking an appointment Expanding Services 8 on their phone, or marching to defend their rights Holding On & Pushing Forward 10 — Planned Parenthood is providing them with the Educating Our Future 14 care, information, and resources they need to take control of their health and their future. Capital Campaign 18 Financial Data 20 With so much at stake, we are joining hands and Demographics 22 working together toward our mission: Care. No matter what. Page 3 We are so proud to share this annual report of our work and our vision in 2018. Regardless of the relentless attacks and Impact of Upper Hudson misinformation, this was a year of expansion and growth for Upper Hudson Planned Parenthood. Our vision is a future Planned Parenthood where everyone has access to the affirming and non- judgmental care that Planned Parenthood is known for — no Health Care and Education matter their income, no matter their ZIP code, no matter their documentation status. Ours is a vision of care. No matter what. Our community’s unwavering access to reliable information support has meant that our vision about where candidates stood on is coming true. UHPP launched the issues important to them. And 9,119 Patients a Capital Campaign focused on they used that information to usher relocating our health centers in in representatives who reflect our Hudson and Troy and completing community’s values and respect for renovations in Albany. Our reproductive health care. 15,162 Patient visits campaign does not stop there. We are raising funds to act as a Our Education department was bulwark between our patients and recognized with awards and added the administration in Washington, new venues to provide honest D.C. Our Patient Access Fund is education about sexual health, 20,943 Birth control information designed to cover the cost of low- consent, healthy relationships, PEP and services or no-cost services in our health and PrEP, and much more. In 2018, centers — regardless of the attacks. our team was making connections We are committed to keeping our and giving people the tools they doors open and to opening new needed to make decisions about 8,733 Breast exams and Pap tests ones. their health and their future. In 2018, UHPP expanded care to All of this was possible because of include behavioral and mental you and the support you provide. 710 health care for our patients. Our We look forward to more places, Gender-affirming health care visits patients come from all walks of life more people, and more services in and all kinds of communities. When 2019! they enter our health centers, they deserve to be seen and heard. We 3,859 People reached through are so proud that we can provide CHELLY HEGAN sex education even more services to give our President/CEO, UHPP patients the care they deserve. Our Public Affairs team worked DEBORAH SHAKOTKO tirelessly to ensure that voters Board President, UHPP throughout our service area had Page 5 Health within Reach Care. Planned Parenthood is committed to No matter providing care, no matter what. We find what. a way to get care and information to the people who need it most — going over, under, and through barriers to get there. Now, more than ever, we’re innovating to put tools for a healthy life directly into people’s hands. No matter who they are, what they need, or where they live. Page 7 Hudson Expansion Expanded Behavioral Over the last three years, Health Care UHPP expanded its operations in Hudson from Public health tells us that there are more “When I booked my one day per week in 2016 to indicators of health than height, weight, three days per week in 2018, and blood pressure. Food security, safe appointment with UHPP and expanded services to housing, counseling, and social support online, I was able to do are all part of what makes a person include gender-affirming it in minutes and was health care, high-complexity holistically healthy. Our communities have struggled to provide enough access to gynecological care, and sent a reminder as soon mental health services and the kind of behavioral and mental health patient care that can connect people to as it was booked. The care coordination. With the what they need. So, in 2018, UHPP began language they use is additional days, the Hudson offering behavioral health care for our super inclusive and easy Health Center saw patients at all three of our health centers. unprecedented growth— a Recognizing that there are both physical to understand. It didn’t 138 percent increase in and social indicators of health, our team alienate my lifestyle, patient visits since 2016, with works with individuals to help them find 1,291 visits in 2018. the services and tools they need to live which was really helpful healthier lives. and affirming when I was Within this program, a licensed in the process of booking professional is assigned to the patient to my appointment.” work closely with our health center clinical team and other partners in the community — Carissa Streckfuss, to help address physical health such as SUNY Albany obesity, hypertension, diabetes, asthma, and smoking, as well as social indicators of health, including safe housing, food security, and access to needed social services or transportation. Each patient is then connected to the relevant community resources to support our patients’ health and well-being. In addition, our patients are able to access onsite counseling through a RCDMH Psychiatric Nurse 5,686 Online appointments in 2018 Practitioner co-located in our health center. Page 9 Holding Fighting Back On & Planned Parenthood supporters continued the fight against the Pushing Trump administration’s efforts to block patients from care at Planned Parenthood, institute Forward a gag rule on our doctors, and appoint Supreme Court justices who would undermine reproductive freedom. Our advocates fought back in Albany, Hudson, NYC, and Washington, Mobilizing the Movement D.C. 2018 results: Our advocates attended the 2018 Day of Action in Albany and joined Planned Parenthood Action Fund President Cecile Richards and New York Governor • 92 events Andrew Cuomo for our Action Rally. Following the rally, advocates prepped and • 22 get out the vote participated in seven legislative visits and legislative actions on behalf of events reproductive health legislation. • 8 teach-ins For the second year in a row, UHPP hosted Across the Line, a virtual reality • 8 rallies experience where participants witness the realities of crossing an abortion picket • 5 marches line. More than 150 people participated in our viewing this year and took action • 17 lobby visits on social media following their experience. Top: UHPP President/CEO Chelly Hegan spoke at the Albany Women’s March. 189 Advocates registered to attend the Bottom: Fifty UHPP advocates went to NYC for the Women’s 2018 Day of Action Day March. Page 11 StandingSupporting Partners with our Community Planned Parenthood stands in solidarity with our community, whether it is fighting for the rights of LGBTQ individuals, people of color, immigrants, victims and survivors of sexual assault and/or gun violence, or anyone who feels threatened or marginalized. In 2018, UHPP partnered with OutHudson, the Columbia County Sanctuary Movement, In Our Own Voices, Citizen Action of New York, and the REACH Center. UHPP staff, volunteers, and Planned Parenthood Generation advocates marched in Capital Pride in Albany and OutHudson Pride in Hudson and did Planned Parenthood Generation (PPGen) at UAlbany has only been a outreach at the In Our Own recognized student organization at the University at Albany for three years, Voices Black and Latino Gay but you would never know it based on its campus presence. Established in Pride festival. 2016, when two students saw the need for grassroots organizing on campus that focused on reproductive justice, PPGen has grown to over 400 members. UHPP held three teach-ins to Over the past year the group’s influence on campus has developed so much uplift our partners’ voices in that it expanded its executive board, added a junior executive board to foster Albany and Hudson and joined future leaders, and partnered with over 15 student organizations to bring coalition partners at rallies, intersectional programming to campus that focused on social justice issues lobby days, and community such as sustainable menstruation, racial disparities in health care, feminist porn, events. healthy sexuality, and immigration policy concerns. PPGen members attended two national student convenings, the Power of Pink and the National Organizing Summit, where they networked with other student leaders, learned how to effectively leverage their voices and stories in the movement, and committed to spreading their message of reproductive justice on campus and in the community. Page 13 Expanding Educating Staff and Reach Our Future The Upper Hudson Planned Parenthood Education team expanded its department in 2018 by hiring an additional full-time Sexual Health Educator and Digital Manager. The new staff allow us to expand to new schools, including Green Island, where we provided the high school and middle school with evidence-based programming. Reaching Out to Teens We added programming in The Youth Health Promoters worked with social Hudson, serving Columbia County media to continue to reach out to young people. Jail and Warren Street Academy. In addition to running social media accounts, including Facebook, Snapchat, YouTube, and • 1,160 education sessions Instagram, they created two marketing campaigns.