Program areas at PPCW
Patient services - annually, more than 41,000 people visit one of ppcw's seven health centers in Oregon and southwest Washington for compassionate reproductive health care. Patients receive afforable contraceptives, emergency contraception, annual gynecological check-ups, breast exams, cervical cancer detection and treatment, std testing and treatment, vasectomies, pregnancy testing and options counseling, and preventative health counseling. Less than nine percent of ppcws services are for early-abortion care.
Public affairs - the public affairs program provides information, support, and training that helps ppcw supporters influence public policy and the legislative process. Ppcw works with local, state and national officals and through public information and grassroots organizing to make sure that reproductive health care is recognized as a basic and fundamental health-care service, to improve access to family planning services, to improve the availability and accuracy of sexuality education in public schools, to keep abortion safe and legal, and to reduce teen pregnancy rates in Oregon and southwest Washington.
Education and community engagement - ppcw is the leading provider of comprehensive sex education and youth peer education and leadership in Oregon and southwest Washington. Recognizing that health literacy and health care access are directly linked to improving individual and community health outcomes, we implement sex education and awareness programming throughout our service areas to include referrals, to build knowledge of existing resources, and to develop agency to access them.see schedule oour overarching goal is to increase young people's access to sex education and reproductive and sexual health care, and we are prioritizing serving bipoc and lgbtq2sia+ young people and their communities. Ppcw's robust education, outreach, and engagement work is guided by a model that 1) empowers young people to protect their health and increases access to health care services; 2) builds expertise for sex education and health literacy with youth, parents and families, teachers and service providers; and 3) works collaboratively with the communities we serve.ppcw's programs and services include curriculum-based workshops for middle school, high school, and college students; teen council peer education program for high school students and their peers; training and workshops for teachers, youth-service providers, and parents to help answer young peoples' questions related to sexual health and to help them identify healthy decisions for their futures; and informational outreach about health care services and how to access those services.