2014 annual report From the President/CEO and Board Chair 2014 really brought home to us that we have our great- fight sexual assault, and ensure that all New Yorkers have est impact when we work together with others! Here access to health care. are a few highlights of our work with partner organiza- tions this past year: For several years, we have helped patients enroll in public health insurance on-site at all of our health centers, but in In Queens, our Education and Training Department laid 2014 we participated in community forums around the city the groundwork for opening a new health center in this to educate New Yorkers about the Affordable Care Act and extremely diverse, fast-growing borough by partnering began enrolling patients in the New York State of Health with community organizations. Planned Parenthood plans. As the Huffington Post reported in “What Really Federation of America honored PPNYC with their APPLE Goes On at Planned Parenthood Every Day,” “People are so Tree Award for the capacity building work that our Educa- relieved. They just had no idea they could get health insur- tion and Training staff did to empower these organiza- ance.” When our staff enroll patients in health insurance, we tions to provide their clients with sexual and reproductive enable them not only to get reproductive care, but also to health information and referrals. address their overall health needs. We collaborated with Bronx community partners to It is critical to PPNYC’s mission to build on the reproduc- launch “Building Healthy Futures,” a multimedia cam- tive justice work we did with our partners in 2014. We paign in English and Spanish to help New Yorkers want New Yorkers to be able to access reproductive health choose and use reliable birth control. We expanded this care, but we also want New Yorkers to lead healthy lives in campaign in the fall through our Promotores de Salud general. We want them to take the time they need to care program’s work at the Mexican Consulate by creating a for their families, to be safe in their homes and communi- special set of Spanish-language materials bearing the ties, and to have the resources to set the course of their branding of both the campaign and the Consulate. own lives. PPNYC’s advocacy work in 2014 involved teaming up Thank you for your support of PPNYC. It is your commit- with 150 coalition partners to push for gender equity, ment to the organization that allows us to ensure that New Yorkers have the care they need, when and where they need it, no matter what. Joan Malin Diane L. Max President and CEO Board Chair Joan Malin (l), President and CEO, and Diane Max (r), Board Chair, accepting the APPLE Tree Award from Planned Parenthood Federation of America for our outstanding education and training programs in Queens. At the groundbreaking (l-r): Assembly Member Nily Rozic, Board Chair Diane Max, City Council Member Mark Weprin, Council Majority Leader Jimmy Van Bramer, Assembly Member High spirits as Catherine T. Nolan, President/CEO Joan Malin, Representative Carolyn Maloney, Council Member Elizabeth Crowley, Council Member Costa Constantinides, Council Member Rory Lancman, we broke ground State Senator Toby Ann Stavisky, Board Vice Chair Katie Danziger, in Queens and Assembly Member Aravella Simotas. Before the shovel hit the ground, considerable analysis showed their support by allocating $923,000 for the and preparation paved the way for our new health center initial build-out and equipping of the health center. We in Queens. We conducted a comprehensive assessment would like to especially recognize the leadership and and determined that the need for our services was great. support of City Council Majority Leader Jimmy Van Queens has the highest rate of uninsured women and Bramer and the Queens delegation, Assembly Member girls in the city. Certain Queens neighborhoods have Catherine T. Nolan, and Queens Borough President some of the city’s highest rates of unintended pregnancy Melinda Katz. and sexually transmitted infections, with as much as half of the borough’s pregnancies being unintended. With great excitement, we hosted a groundbreaking event on October 16! A large turnout of nearly 70 people The next step was to introduce ourselves and get attended, with community members and 12 elected of- acquainted with stakeholders and community leaders. ficials welcoming us to Long Island City. Mr. Van Bramer PPNYC built relationships with community organiza- attested that “Planned Parenthood has already been tions by offering them our capacity building assistance working closely with local community organizations to to enable their staff to address the sexual and repro- provide educational programs to local residents. The ad- ductive health concerns of their clients. We provided dition of a Planned Parenthood health center in Queens this kind of training to staff of the Queens Library, South is a positive step toward ensuring all borough residents Asian Youth Alliance, Sunnyside Community Services, have the quality health care they deserve.” and Queens Community House, establishing a fruitful collaboration and long-term relationship with them. The groundbreaking received extensive and very positive media coverage from the New York Times, Associated Thanks to generous individual donations, PPNYC raised Press, NY 1, Daily News, Queens Times-Ledger, Queens $8.1 million of the $9 million needed to open a new Tribune, Queens Chronicle, Gothamist, and DNAinfo health center. City and state elected officials from Queens among others. Launching a new health center requires a great deal of dedicated work from staff throughout the agency, and we have all pitched in to achieve this expansion. 1 Keeping New York healthy In 2014, we cared for nearly 50,000 adults and the homeless. Project Street Beat had more than 27,000 adolescents at our four health centers in Manhattan, service encounters in 2014, a 17% increase over 2013. Brooklyn, the Bronx, and Staten Island. No one is turned away from PPNYC if he or she cannot pay; we help clients to enroll in public insurance or obtain private insurance through the Affordable Care Act or we meet their needs with our sliding fee scale. PPNYC provides life-saving breast and cervical cancer Clinical Services Provided in 2014 screening, sexual and reproductive health care, • 51,572 sexual and reproductive health visits contraception counseling and methods, emergency • 84,094 tests for sexually transmitted infections contraception, surgical and medication abortion, HIV • 25,997 HIV tests counseling and testing, screening and treatment for • 7,867 Pap tests to screen for cervical cancer sexually transmitted infections, the HPV vaccine, and • 8,530 pregnancy tests screening for intimate partner violence. • 18,648 abortions — 91% in the first trimester • Helped 8,354 clients obtain public insurance Project Street Beat is PPNYC’s award-winning HIV- prevention and linkage-to-care program. The Keith Haring Foundation-Project Street Beat mobile medical unit travels through the Bronx, Brooklyn, and northern Manhattan offering free health care and other services to high-risk individuals who don’t access traditional health care, including substance users, sex workers, and 2 Project Street Beat launched its HIV Community Mobilization Project in Brooklyn, a four-year campaign to prevent the spread of HIV among African-American women and Latinas through social marketing and free testing services. Lauren Porsch (l) and Dr. Gillian Dean (r) presented a poster about their research study on IUD insertion after abortion at the annual meeting of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. 2014 Highlights • Thanks to a grant from the • A $1 million grant from the • PPNYC’s Clinical Training and New York State Department of Jerome L. Greene Foundation Research Initiative, which Health, we were able to expand made long-acting reversible addresses the critical shortage the hours of our health centers contraception (LARC) methods of medical and nursing in Manhattan and Staten Island, such as IUDs and implants professionals who can provide adding early morning and available to our low-income reproductive health care, evening appointments that are clients at no cost. Our LARC partnered with Mt. Sinai Hospital’s a hit with patients. provision increased 46% overall Department of Obstetrics and in 2014 and 78% immediately Gynecology to host a new following abortion. two-year Fellowship in Family Planning. Our clinical and research staff PPNYC’s Entitlement Counselors received the New published a study about the York Abortion Access Fund’s “Champion Award” for relationship between intimate partner their dedication to ensuring that cost is not a barrier to violence and abortion in Women & getting needed services. Health, Vol. 54. 3 Growing an informed community PPNYC reached 26,000 young people and adults in PPNYC offers innovative, collaborative programs for 2014 through its programs that help participants to lead adults as well. Adult Role Models are neighborhood sexually healthy and responsible lives. parents trained to lead workshops to teach other parents how to talk about sex with their children In our youth programs we collaborate with numerous comfortably and knowledgeably. Promotores de Salud community partners. We are implementing three are community members we train to help Latinas obtain evidence-based interventions — “Making Proud sexual and reproductive health care. Choices,” “Be Proud! Be Responsible!,” and “Be Proud! Be Responsible! Be Protective!” — in schools The Training Institute of PPNYC’s Robert and Harriet and community organizations in targeted high-risk Heilbrunn Center for Community Outreach, Education, neighborhoods to reduce sexual risk behaviors among and Training offers a variety of trainings annually on teens and teen mothers. We present our Taking Care sexual and reproductive health issues, best practices, of You workshop series to young people in schools and and model programs. other venues, covering such issues as contraception, HIV prevention, abstinence, sexual orientation, parenting, Our Capacity Building Program assists organizations and healthy relationships.