2020 VISION ANNUAL REPORT Every person enjoys full equality and dignity, the right to sexual health and autonomy, access to the best quality sexual health care available, and the ability to make informed decisions without coercion or discrimination. MISSION To improve health and well-being by providing high-quality, nonjudgmental sexual health care, honest and accurate sexuality education, and reproductive health and rights advocacy. PLANNEDPARENTHOOD.ORG/TENNESSEE President’s Board Chair’s Message Message For 80 years, Planned The pandemic has had a significant impact on our Parenthood of Tennessee affiliate and our patients, but thanks to your support, This past year, we have collectively weathered the most Now more than ever, there is so much at stake— and North Mississippi has been a place of care, we have kept our doors open for our patients, all while contentious presidential election in modern history equality, life, health, and dignity. It’s a profound time in compassion, information, healing, and health for tens taking care of our hardworking, brave, and dedicated and a nationwide uprising for racial justice, while we the fight for equitable reproductive and sexual health of thousands of people. staff. We’ve expanded telehealth opportunities for our watched the most deadly pandemic in modern history care access. Our current battles at the state and federal patients and grown our free long-acting birth control Every day in our health centers we see patients of all enter our homes, schools, and businesses— all in real levels mean that we cannot rest. But we will fight every and teen services statewide. And we’re renovating our races, socioeconomic levels, and gender identities— time. We live in a nation at its most divided, one where battle, big and small, because in our book, every Knoxville Health Center to provide greater access to insured and not—who need affordable, confidential, political agendas and religious ideologies dictate to person counts. This year, we must recommit ourselves abortion services and comprehensive sex education. nonjudgmental care. whom freedom is given and to whom it is not. To say to caring for all of our neighbors—No Matter What. You’ll still find PPTNM educators and organizers all over that we are all tired, both physically and emotionally, This year, our ability to serve those patients has been This Annual Report is a testament of our continued our region despite the unexpected task of moving all would be a profound understatement. more necessary and under greater threat than ever commitment to the diverse people and communities in-person activities online. And in 2021 we’re growing, before. In July 2020, Tennessee Governor Bill Lee signed But the fight I’ve seen in the PPTNM staff and PPTNM serves. The thousands of patients we see adding education and organizing staff in Chattanooga a law banning abortion without exception. Mississippi’s supporters like you never ceases to astound me. each year are your neighbors, friends, and members and North Mississippi. so-called “trigger law” would ban abortion if Roe v of your families. We wouldn’t be able to get through By now you know that the Tennessee governor tried Wade were overtuned. At the same time, Tennessee Our 501(c)4 organization, Tennessee Advocates for the tough times like these without you. Thank you for unsuccessfully to stop Planned Parenthood from also passed new restrictions on abortion providers Planned Parenthood (TAPP), takes our advocacy and your unwavering support of Planned Parenthood of providing access to abortion services during the that make delivery of our services frustrating for our activism a step further by facilitating the lobbying, Tennessee and North Mississippi. pandemic. We filed—and won—a lawsuit to continue patients and more onerous for our providers. We have organizing, and electoral work necessary to protect offering these time sensitive services. The Tennessee only the federal courts left to protect our rights, and we our Planned Parenthood affiliate and our rights. The General Assembly and the governor also passed can no longer count on them. incredible work that TAPP does for PPTNM and our legislation this year, in the middle of the night, that bans state has grown exponentially valuable and will only In 2020, PPTNM coped with the incredible complexities abortion in Tennessee with no exceptions and again, continue to grow in the years ahead as we double down of four different lawsuits we were forced to file against PPTNM was forced to take the state to court to stop this on advocacy to protect our patients. With your support, the state of Tennessee on behalf of our patients while unconstitutional attack on our personal autonomy and we will use our hard-earned expertise, partnerships, navigating a deadly pandemic. As we also witnessed access to health care—a fight that continues into 2021. Holly Hagan Oehmler, Board Chair and willpower to make change happen. the centuries-overdue reckoning on racial justice, we affirmed and strengthened our resolve to fight for Our work is far from done, but the work we have done equitable access to vital health care, no matter what. together deserves to be celebrated. Every triumph we’ve recorded in this Annual Report is one that you Our mission at Planned Parenthood remains steadfast. made possible. Thank you for standing with us this year We provide affordable high quality and nonjudgmental and every year. Pictured left to right: sexual health care, honest and accurate sexual health Senator Jeff Yarbro, Ashley Coffield, education, and fearless advocacy for your reproductive Tracey George, Chris Guthrie, John Spragens, Claire Meneely rights. Your belief in that mission has been undaunted and ever growing through these challenging times, which is why we have so many triumphs to show you in this Annual Report. Ashley Coffield, President/CEO Your support made vital, SERVICES PATIENTS nonjudgmental care accessible to BY thousands of adults and teens across Care LOCATION Tennessee and North Mississippi. Planned 16,685 28,169 Unduplicated Patient Parenthood of Patients Visits 14,507 Tennessee and Tennessee North Mississippi serves 123 counties in Tennessee, North Mississippi, and East Arkansas. 696 5,618 Clinical Medication & Breast Exams Surgical Abortions 648 17 & under 1,032 PATIENTS Mississippi 7,046 18-24 BY 4,467 25-29 AGE 2,407 30-34 21,139 5,923 HIV & Other Cycles of 2,117 35 & older STI Tests Contraception Each patient that walks through our doors receives high-quality reproductive and sexual health care, no matter their racial, ethnic, or socioeconomic background. 301 Arkansas 4,229 1,923 African-American 7,328 LARCs Emergency PATIENTS (IUDs, implants, the shot) Contraception Kits BY White 7,199 RACE / Asian, Native American, Other 377 ETHNICITY Multi-racial 493 845 Identify as Hispanic 1,066 89 1,015 Other States PrEP & PEP Gender-Affirming Unknown 222 Clients Healthcare Patients CONDOM DISTRIBUTION Education Despite the pandemic, Free Condoms TN continues to provide free condoms to over 200 agencies across the state. This year, we were thrilled to be able to expand this program to include North Mississippi. PPTNM educators replace fear with facts and misinformation with education. www.freecondomstn.org • www.freecondomsms.org All education programs are inclusive, evidence-based, interactive, and custom to the needs of the group. East TN 126,226 5,107 3,815 1,227 Middle TN 176,788 ALL Directly Reached Through Reached Through Total Educational SESSIONS a PP or Peer Educator Peer Education Session Participants Shelby Co 464,564 North MS 9,000 & AR Sessions include: Youth Sessions, Adult Sessions, Askable Adult Sessions, and Professional Trainings Total Condoms Distributed: 776,578 Because the laws in Tennessee make it hard to directly reach youth, we ONLINE EDUCATION train high school and college students in Tennessee to accurately and PEER Throughout the pandemic, much like the rest OVERALL NUMBERS honestly reach and teach their peers sex ed. EDUCATION of the country, our department has primarily shifted to virtual learning sessions. 161 + 96.5 = 257.5 • Online peer ed groups Education Professional Total • Weekly interactive social media Q&As Session Training Hours • Over 5,000 video views on Facebook & Hours Hours Instagram 36 Middle Schoolers 282 Adults JUST US PG-13 PLAYERS FYI 321 High Schoolers 129 Professionals 415 44 7 West TN 8 Middle TN 8 East TN College Students Parents High Schoolers High Schoolers High Schoolers Peer Educators Trained: 65 SEXPERTS: 42 COLLEGE STUDENTS STATEWIDE Students Reached 3,815 Through Peer Educators: + performance PROMOTORAS Promotoras aims to increase the awareness of Planned audiences Parenthood and our health services within the Spanish- speaking and Latinx community. Performances: 5 + 1 virtual 13 Peer Ed Lobby Day Appointments 126 12 9 155 PG-13 Players Performance Attendees Community Monthly Columns in Education Members Educated La Prensa Latina Sessions HIGHLIGHTS + August 2019 Stop the Bans Days of Action: Over 100 PPTNM supporters showed up in Community Engagement opposition to the six week abortion ban during the Senate Judiciary Committee’s two day hearings on the bill. + The Committee Chairman barred people who have had abortions from speaking during the hearings, so PPTNM hosted the “People’s Hearing on Abortion” where people who 5 171,200 357 have had abortions and supportive legislators shared their stories. + Gen Action Chapters at Local Supporters in TN & North MS Trained Patient Nationwide press coverage of our actions Colleges & Universities (+16,300 since this time last year) Greeters & Escorts 7 5 2,972 SPRING + 3 Days on the Hill with bus stops in Chattanooga, Jackson, Advocacy Workshops Action Councils Volunteer Hours Knoxville, & Memphis and 165 people attending from all Hosted Each Month (teams of volunteer leaders) in FY20 2020 LEGISLATIVE across the state SESSION + 5 Action Forums for 307 6,246 6,000 supporters to learn about Volunteers Supporters Mobilized to Take Calls & 2020 legislation and Action Doors Knocked build grassroots lobbying skills.