PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF NORTHERN NEW ENGLAND INC
784 Hercules Drive Suite 110, Colchester, VT 05446 www.ppnne.org

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Organizations Filed Purposes: To provide, promote, and protect access to reproductive health care and sexuality education so that all people can make voluntary choices about their reproductive and sexual health.

Reproductive Healthcare and Education

PPNNE provides high-quality sexual and reproductive health (SRH) care through 21 health centers across Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont. Patients receive vital services including: well-person exams, cancer screenings, birth control counseling and access to the full range of contraceptive methods, emergency contraception, abortion care, STD testing/treatment/prevention services, immunizations, gender affirming hormone therapy, and other limited primary care. Highlights of our work meeting patient need in 2019 include:-Providing SRH care to 44,673 patients (through 65,877 medical visits), a 6.5% increase from 2016.-Achieving important patient and societal outcomes. Based on formulas developed in peer-reviewed Guttmacher Institute research (www.guttmacher.org/broader-benefits/), we estimate that the work of our health centers prevented approximately 7,370 unintended pregnancies, resulting in net public cost savings of $36 million in 2019. -Serving a predominantly low-income, underinsured, and young patient base. In 2019, 65% of our patients were low-income (at or below 200% of the federal poverty guideline, or $24,980 for one person), 37% were living below the poverty line ($12,490 for one person), 19% were uninsured/self-pay, and 34% had coverage through Medicaid or another public program. Our patient base was also overwhelmingly female (87%) and young, with 67% under the age of 30 (15% teens and 52% in their twenties).-Ensuring access for uninsured/underinsured patients by delivering over $8 million in free/discounted health care through our sliding fee scale program. -Providing services as individual patient need indicated such as: 88,916 STD tests, 11,797 pregnancy tests, 5,822 breast exams, 5,700 insertions of long-acting reversible contraceptives (LARC), and 4,915 Pap tests. -Continuing to enhance care to better help patients with critical needs and improve their health and overall welfare, including through further staff training on providing trauma-informed care; delivering high-quality, evidence-based contraceptive counseling; conducting psychosocial screenings and providing referrals for intimate partner violence, depression, and substance use (for patients who screen positive for having or being at-risk of developing a substance use disorder, we provide a brief intervention and referral to treatment); continuing care coordination work to help ensure that patients, especially the most vulnerable, receive the follow up care they need; and continuing to pilot an integrated behavioral health program at selected sites in VT, in which we embed licensed mental health professionals in our health centers, and positioning this program for future expansion. -Achieving a very high level of patient satisfaction. Highlights of 2019 survey results include that: patients felt the services offered met their needs (scoring 96.3 out of 100 points), they were treated with compassion and respect (97.2/100), and our clinicians spoke using clear language (97.4/100). As a result, patients were extremely likely to recommend PPNNE to others (96.8/100).-Advancing special proactive initiatives (as funding allows) to improve public health, address health inequities, and reduce unintended pregnancy, with downstream impacts on individuals, families, and communities. Examples of this work in 2019 included providing trainings on family planning needs/referrals, contraceptive counseling, and other SRH topics to community health and social service professionals; expanding partnerships to reach underserved populations; and participating in collaborative health reform efforts.

PPNNE reaches and engages youth and adults, with a focus on underserved and at-risk populations, through community outreach, events, intern programs, and expanding education programs. Our education programming strives to ensure that young people have access to the health information they need. Highlights from 2019 include: -Conducting 299 outreach activities across our region to deepen referral relationships with other health and human service organizations, raise visibility, and bring services and education to more people. -Empowering teens to serve as sexual health ambassadors through our unique peer education program, which delivers life-changing information in schools, community groups and through one-on-one interactions. In 2019, we supported peer educators from 6 high schools (5 in VT and 1 in NH), who organized dozens of educational events and conducted thousands of conversations with peers who had sexual health questions - providing quality information and helping them identify healthy next steps, such as talking to a parent or making a health care appointment. We also conducted recruitment for our first peer education program in Maine, which launched in early 2020. -Delivering trainings on youth sexual health and providing resources to youth-serving community professionals.-Expanding our work with schools to improve the quality and inclusiveness of their sex education, with a focus on helping middle schools implement the evidence-based sexual health curriculum called "Get Real." -Delivering sexual health workshops for parents. -Organizing PPNNE's first-ever Youth Sex Education Summit, held in Burlington, VT. Our peer educators played major roles in developing and running the Summit, which brought together over 80 people (mostly youth) to participate in workshops and learn how to advocate for quality sex education in their schools and communities. Based on this successful experience, we aim to start organizing annual summits in each of our states.

PPNNE's organizing and policy program integrates public education, advocacy, collaboration, media strategies, and grassroots mobilization. These efforts are conducted in tandem with our Planned Parenthood Action Fund organizations in Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont and in collaboration with community partners. This work - including advocating for reproductive health and rights, expanded health care access, and other beneficial policies - reduces unintended pregnancy and promotes public health, equity, and economic security statewide. Through these efforts, PPNNE strives to improve population-level health, enhancing the lives of adults and young people. Highlights from 2019 include:-Contributing to a multitude of proactive wins across the region. In Maine, we helped pass 6 pieces of beneficial legislation, including laws to a) require the state Medicaid program and private insurance plans that cover prenatal care to also cover abortion, and b) allow qualified advance practice clinicians to provide abortion. In New Hampshire, we helped ensure that the state budget a) restored the state STD prevention program, which was eliminated in 2012, and b) provided replacement funding so that all NH Federal Family Planning/Title X providers impacted by the Gag Rule can continue meeting patient need. In Vermont, we helped pass a new state law (H.57) that codified the unrestricted access to abortion care that Vermont patients and medical providers have relied on for over four decades.-Supporting campus organizing at colleges and working with volunteer action teams across our three states to deepen and grow grassroots organizing capacity. -Continuing to develop and expand the use of our trailblazing social change model that uses persuasion science and "deep canvassing" to increase support for reproductive health and rights. This included ramping up our intensive deep canvassing training program for partners from around the country.

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