Your Partner for a Healthy Community 2022

Planned Parenthood of Greater Texas

YOUR PARTNER FOR A HEALTHY COMMUNITY 2022

Our Mission

Planned Parenthood of Greater Texas provides trusted, evidence-based sexual healthcare and education while advocating for reproductive justice, care without judgment, and access to healthcare for all.

Our Vision

A world in which everyone can access quality healthcare and information to live their lives fully, without judgment.

Our Commitment to Diversity

Diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging (DEIB) are fundamental to who we are and what we do at Planned Parenthood of Greater Texas. We are an organization that values the communities and individuals we serve. Together with our supporters, partners, and team members, we foster a culture and engage in practices that promote diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging. We work to eliminate disparities to build more equitable systems that improve access and health outcomes for all. We pledge to engage in meaningful and transformative action that improves the lives of the people of Texas and increases equity and justice for all.

Dear friend of Planned Parenthood of Greater Texas:

For more than 88 years, Planned Parenthood has been a trusted resource for sexual and reproductive healthcare and education in communities across Texas. Texans count on our advocacy to expand access to healthcare until our shared vision is a reality — a world where everyone can access quality healthcare and information to live their lives fully, without judgement.

When Texas enacted the most extreme abortion ban in the U.S. in September 2021 followed by the U.S. Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade in 2022, we knew it was more important than ever that patients could count on us for healthcare, education and advocacy.

gee from their trusted provider, Planned Parenthood. Texas’ abortion ban and other reproductive health barriers disproportionately impact minors, communities of color, rural, low-income, LGBTQIA+ and undocumented Texans. Over the past 10 years, Texas statewide elected officials have systematically blocked patients who rely on public health programs from getting care from Planned Parenthood. A recent study ranked Texas 50th in access to high-quality prenatal and maternal care, and Texas‘ maternal mortality rates highlight devastating maternal health outcomes, especially for Black women. Texas has the highest rate of uninsured residents in the U.S. yet failed to expand Medicaid coverage to help close the gap for the state’s most vulnerable population.

This makes our mission more important than ever. Last year, we provided more than 100,000 essential healthcare appointments through telemedicine and our health centers in Austin, Dallas, Denton, El Paso, Fort Worth, Lubbock, Paris, Plano, Waco, Tyler and surrounding communities. We reached more than 20,000 youth and parents with essential sex education. We expanded access to preventive healthcare, including birth control, through expanded weekend and evening health center hours of operation. Our newly renovated health centers in Addison, Austin, Dallas, Denton, and Mesquite highlight the quality of care we provide to our patients.

With your support, we continue working to meet the needs of Texans who count on us. Thank you for standing with us.

Ken Lambrecht

Josette Ayres President & CEO Board Chair

Healthcare you trust

“I’m not an emotional person, but it was just so relieving to know that I’m taking care of myself, and it’s affordable. I’m going to be okay financially, too.“

—Lubbock Health Center Patient

LUBBOCK HEALTH CENTER

Health Services

“Our El Paso Health Center is crucial. We are often the main healthcare provider and source of sexual health education for undocumented, uninsured, low-income, transgender or immigrant patients who may not feel safe seeking preventive healthcare in other settings or who cannot afford other options.”

—Miranda Aguirre Health Center Manager El Paso Health Center

Trusted, Expert Healthcare

Planned Parenthood of Greater Texas provided more than 100,000 healthcare visits in 2022 in Central, East, North, and West Texas. Planned Parenthood health centers prioritize serving uninsured patients and are a resource for patients with insurance. With online appointment scheduling, same-day and telehealth appointments available, Planned Parenthood is an essential healthcare provider in Austin, Dallas, Denton, El Paso, Fort Worth, Lubbock, Paris, Plano, Tyler, Waco and surrounding communities.

Planned Parenthood’s clinicians have an average of more than 21 years of healthcare experience. Their range of expertise includes physicians, women’s healthcare nurse practitioners, family nurse practitioners, certified nurse midwives, physician assistants and other advanced levels of certification and licensure.

Learn more and make appointments at plannedparenthood.org/health-center/TX

Planned Parenthood is one of the most trusted reproductive healthcare providers in the U.S. 1 in 5 American women relies on Planned Parenthood at some point in her life.

Trusted, Expert Healthcare

2022 Planned Parenthood healthcare services included:

• Annual exams

• Birth control, including IUDs and implants

• Breast and cervical cancer screenings

• Colposcopy and treatment of abnormal cells to prevent cervical cancer

• Gender-affirming hormone therapy

• Medication and surgical abortion*

• Midlife care

• Morning-after pill (emergency contraception)

• Pregnancy testing

• PrEP and PEP HIV prevention medication

• STI testing and treatment, including HIV testing

• Urinary tract and vaginal infection treatment

• Vaccinations for HPV and flu

* Abortion is banned in Texas. Planned Parenthood will advocate until abortion is restored in Texas.

space pregnancies.

• Testing and treatment for sexually transmitted infections (STIs), including HIV tests.

• Life-saving breast and cervical cancer prevention screenings.

MESQUITE HEALTH CENTER RELOCATION AND EXPANSION

NORTH DALLAS SHELBURNE HEALTH CENTER

Trusted, Expert Healthcare

Healthcare and health education directly in the hands of Texans

Planned Parenthood Direct is a telemedicine app that connects patients to birth control pills, patch, ring, emergency contraception, and urinary tract infection treatment online with prescription deliveries to a home or nearby pharmacy. Telemedicine appointments offer additional virtual healthcare access. Patients received healthcare via 14,245 telemedicine appointments in 2022.

Telemedicine is one of the ways Texans can connect with us online, including the Spot On period tracking app, the Roo sex ed chat app, 24/7 online appointment booking and the Chat/Text program for sexual health questions.

Educational programming and workshops are offered in-person and online to provide quality sex education for teens, young adults, and parents. Planned Parenthood ‘s Chat/Text program allows Texans to ask professional Planned Parenthood educators sexual health questions in Spanish and English, seven days a week.

To chat with a Planned Parenthood educator, visit plannedparenthood.org/chat or text “PPNOW” to 774636 (PPINFO)

Trusted, Expert Healthcare

All are welcome at Planned Parenthood.

Planned Parenthood of Greater Texas is a public health provider that receives little to no public funding due to Texas’ political climate and ideologically driven policies that exclude Planned Parenthood from most government-funded programs in Texas. With donor and community support, and new federal Title X funding at four health centers, Planned Parenthood continues to be an essential part of Texas’ medical safety net.

Approximately 70% of Planned Parenthood’s patients have annual household incomes less than $25,000, and most of our patients are between 18 and 34 years old.

Insured patients choose Planned Parenthood for convenient, expert healthcare services. Planned Parenthood provides nonjudgmental healthcare services and is a trusted resource of healthcare and education for all Texans.

All are welcome at Planned Parenthood health centers regardless of ZIP code, insurance or documentation status, income level, or who you love.

Expert Healthcare

Healthcare Disparities and Maternal Mortality Crisis

Texas is in a public health crisis as highlighted by Texas’ maternal mortality rate. According to data from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the national maternal morbidity rate in 2020 was 23.8 deaths per 100,000 deliveries. The 2020 rate in Texas was 72.7 deaths per 100,000 deliveries, and Black women died at more than twice the rate of white women 1

Unintended pregnancies increase the chances of negative health outcomes including delayed prenatal care, premature birth, and other health complications.2 Currently, 54% of all pregnancies in Texas are unintended3, more than the national average of 45%.4 Many Texans face barriers to healthcare access that further deepen health disparities. These disparities disproportionately impact uninsured, low-income, and undocumented Texans, communities of color, and LGBTQIA+ Texans.

Planned Parenthood health centers provide essential healthcare services that support maternal and overall health such as screenings for hypertension, anemia, BMI, intimate partner violence (IPV), and postpartum contraception. Planned Parenthood’s health centers offer patient-centered contraceptive counseling that is comprehensive, high-quality and provides patients with information about the full range of birth control methods through an approach that affirms each patients’ autonomy and reproductive decision-making ability.

Trusted, Expert Healthcare

In 2022, Planned Parenthood of Greater Texas provided:

101,752 patient visits at Planned Parenthood health centers in Austin, Dallas, Denton, El Paso, Fort Worth, Lubbock, Paris, Plano, Tyler, Waco and surrounding communities

65,213 unduplicated patients served

67% of patients are uninsured and earn incomes at or below $25,000/year

14% of healthcare appointments provided via telemedicine

135,821 tests and treatments for sexually transmitted infections (STIs), HIV tests, PrEP/PEP HIV prevention medications, and HPV vaccines to prevent cervical cancer, certain types of oral, anal, penile and vulvar cancers, and genital warts

70,219 birth control services to plan and space pregnancies and treat health conditions including endometriosis and polycystic ovary syndrome

11,319 breast and cervical cancer screenings, treatments to diagnose and prevent cancer at the earliest and most treatable stages, including colposcopy, and LEEP (Loop Electrosurgical Excision Procedure), and referrals for mammograms at low or no cost

3,243 Gender Affirming Hormone Therapy (GAHT) appointments for transgender and nonbinary patients

Trusted, Expert Healthcare

PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER TEXAS HEALTH CENTER LOCATIONS IN 2022

Austin/Travis County

Central Austin Health Center

Downtown Austin Health Center

North Austin Health Center

South Austin Health Center

Dallas County

Addison Health Center

Cedar Hill Health Center

Mesquite Health Center

North Dallas Shelburne Health Center

Denton Health Center

El Paso Health Center

Fort Worth/Tarrant County

Arlington Health Center

Bedford Health Center

Southeast Fort Worth Health Center

Southwest Fort Worth Health Center

Lubbock Health Center

Paris Health Center

Plano Health Center

Tyler Health Center

Waco Health Center

Telehealth appointments available at ppgreatertx.org

Health Education

“I plan to use this information to make sure I respect my personal boundaries and others’ boundaries. I am also going to make sure that if I participate in sexual activities, that I be safe and aware of my decisions. The educator was kind and open. Other young people should learn about this!

—High School Sex Education Workshop Participant

COMMUNITY HEALTH EDUCATION MANAGER, AMANDA MENDOZA, CONDUCTING A WORKSHOP

Community Health Education

Texas has the ninth highest rate1 of teen births and the second highest rate of repeat teen births2 in the United States.

Planned Parenthood’s three-part approach to community health education engages parents, educators and peers to reduce the rates of unintended pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections in Texas. Our signature education programs provide the skills and support individuals need to make well-informed decisions about relationships and sexual health.

Community health education programs are donor- and grant-funded, and available at no cost as a community resource for young people and adults.

Regardless of where young people live, they can access medically-accurate information about their health from professional education staff seven days a week via the Planned Parenthood Chat/Text Program

Community Health Education

Parents

Educators

Teens who talk about sex with their parent(s) or another trusted adult are more likely to postpone having sex and more likely to make healthier decisions about sexual behavior. We get the conversation started through Talk First! or ¡Hable Primero! workshops provided online and in person.

Planned Parenthood's community health educators are trained to implement effective sex education interventions tailored to each group of adolescents and young adult participants. Lessons and curriculums are selected to meet the needs of youth in schools, after-school programs, juvenile detention programs, shelters, foster homes and other community settings.

Peers

The Austin-based Teen Council is a yearlong peer education program designed to develop leadership through sexual health education training and empowering young people to serve as peer educators. TeenAge Communication Theatre (TACT) is an award-winning health education program featuring high school volunteers performing interactive theater pieces for other teens in the Dallas area to promote discussion and communication.

In 2022, TACT peer educators produced educational content for their peers on TikTok, Instagram and YouTube.

Community Health Education

19,888 96% 80%

youth and adults participated in health education programs, including parent workshops in Austin, Dallas, El Paso, Fort Worth, Lubbock, Waco and surrounding communities.

of parents surveyed were more likely to talk to their preteens and teens about sexual health after attending a Talk First! or ¡Hable Primero! parent education workshop.

of participants surveyed demonstrated increased knowledge about preventing STIs and unintended pregnancy after attending a Planned Parenthood health education workshop.

14,973

people received information about healthcare and health education from health educators through Planned Parenthood’s chat/text program, which is available seven days a week.

Participant Demographics

RACE and ETHNICITY

Community Advocacy

"I will never forget when a woman came up to our table thanking us for all we were doing and then broke down in tears. We all had a group hug. The fight for our reproductive rights cannot be done without us all uniting and healing together.”

Emma 2022 Public Affairs Leadership Program Participant

PLANNED PARENTHOOD PUBLIC AFFAIRS STAFF LEXI GONZALEZ AND ALEXIS BRAVO AT THE BANS OFF OUR BODIES RALLY AT THE TEXAS STATE CAPITOL, JUNE 2022

Community Advocacy

Standing Up for Reproductive Healthcare in 2022

Planned Parenthood creates communities where Texans are informed and engaged on issues impacting reproductive healthcare access and sexual health education. Community engagement staff support advocates through events and trainings that inspire important conversations, develop and strengthen advocacy skills, and mobilize community members

to stand up for healthcare, sex education, and access to safe, legal abortion. Planned Parenthood staff connected with more than 6,500 people at community events like health fairs and speaking engagements, and hosted over 100 events including Bans Off Our Bodies rallies for abortion access, books clubs, movie screenings, and trainings to learn how to talk about and advocate for healthcare access.

Volunteers contributed nearly 2,000 hours on projects, including assembling period supply kits for local shelters and 28,600 kits containing pregnancy tests, emergency contraception, and condoms to distribute to patients and students on local college campuses.

WACO

LUBBOCK

AUSTIN

FORT WORTH

Community Advocacy

Investing in the Next Generation

Planned Parenthood’s Generation Action program identifies and trains the next generation of reproductive health advocates in Texas. Community engagement staff worked with student leaders on 11 campuses, providing support for events, outreach and trainings. Planned Parenthood’s statewide Youth Power Summit brought together 70+ student leaders, including 32 student leaders from Planned Parenthood of Greater Texas, to develop organizing, advocacy, and messaging skills to take back to their communities.

The Public Affairs Leadership Program, new in 2022, invites young people 18-25 years old to work closely with Planned Parenthood staff to develop their community organizing and leadership skills. A total of six Summer Leaders spent six weeks helping with outreach and engagement activities and concluded with a capstone project creating and hosting a community event of their own.

More than ever, supporters seek information, organize, and advocate online. Planned Parenthood provides multiple digital platforms for advocates and patients to engage and support our mission. Texans visited the Planned Parenthood of Greater Texas website more than one million times in 2022, while thousands more shared content and engaged with us daily on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, Zoom, and other virtual platforms.

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REGIONAL ADMINISTRATION OFFICES

AUSTIN: 201 E. Ben White Blvd., Bldg. B Austin, TX 78704

DALLAS: preferred mailing address

7424 Greenville Ave., Suite 206 Dallas, TX 75231

EL PASO: 1511 East Missouri Ave. El Paso, TX 79902

FORT WORTH: 6464 John Ryan Drive Fort Worth, TX 76132

LUBBOCK: 3716 22nd Place Lubbock, TX 79410

WACO: 700 West Hwy 6 Waco, TX 76712

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