Culturally Informed Programming

PPMW’s education programs, in-person and virtually, are high quality, medically accurate and culturally informed, with an emphasis on serving youth experiencing vulnerabilities.

Promotoras

We launched our “Promotoras” program which trains and supports local Spanishspeaking community leaders to become “promotoras” — health educators who work to meet the diverse needs of our Latinx community. Our Promotoras bring sexual and reproductive health information and resources into the Latinx communities that need them, building trusted relationships and decreasing barriers to healthcare access.

I have felt very supported and heard, but most importantly respected as someone who knows what the needs of my community are.

2021

PromotorasbytheNumbers: FirstCohort-TenParticipants-SixMonths

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Over275communitymembersreachedwithresourcesandinformationsurrounding sexeducationtoincludeFIVE-'acalzonquitado'(spillthetea)sessions.

Birth Control Educator Kits

Hundreds of Birth Control Educator Kits were sent to educators, schools, and community organizations across the country where our medically-accurate, educator-approved kits are being used to educate communities about contraceptive methods.

Peer Education

Education at PPMW serves the community in many ways. In 2021, we mobilized students to participate in chapter building at Howard University, and hosted a book club on Medical Apartheid.

Students also participated in a phone bank, asking Maine voters to call Senator Angus King and urge him to support DC statehood in the Senate.

Our SIHLE Program - which focuses on reducing higher-risk sexual behaviors among African American adolescent females - adapted a virtual format for youth to access, reaching more than 70 participants.

In the summer of 2021, SIHLE was able to do their first in-person programming since COVID with our participants at Columbia Heights Educational Campus.

Sisters, Informing, Healing, Living and Empowering