Organization: Planned Parenthood California Central
Mission: Trusted provider of reproductive health care, education, and advocacy operating in three counties.
Activities: PPCCC provides high-quality, low or no cost health services across five health centers in San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara and Ventura County. In 2019, PPCCC served 29,000 unduplicated patients by providing a wide-range of reproductive health services including birth control, sexually transmitted infections (STI) testing and treatment breast and cervical cancer screenings, HPV vaccines, well-woman care and abortion. Over half of these patients were living in poverty and 85% were considered low income or 200% of the Federal Poverty Level. PPCCC distributed over 145,000 condoms and provided over 81,000 tests for STI on order to combat the statewide increase in infections.
Planned Parenthood is dedicated to supporting and defending public policies that protect women's health and advance reproductive rights. This includes educating the public and elected officials about the impact that local, state, and federal policies have on the communities served by Planned Parenthood.
PPCCC provides evidence-based teen pregnancy prevention education programming to nearly one thousand young people along the California Central Coast each year. Thousands more benefit from educationaloutreach, including health fairs and community presentations. Programming is designed to enable participants to make healthy decisions and reduce rates of sexually transmitted infections.
NTEE category: Health Care
Secondary category: Voluntary Health Associations & Medical Disciplines