MEETING THE
MOMENT
2022 Annual Report
Fiscal year ended June 30, 2022.
Roe is gone, but we're still here.
With the end of our constitutional right to abortion and relentless attacks on our bodily autonomy, this is a critical moment in the fight for our reproductive freedom. At Planned Parenthood of Greater New York, we are meeting this moment with power, compassion, and ferocity. We are proud to continue providing high-quality, compassionate, expert sexual and reproductive health care and abortion services - no matter what.
A Letter from Our CEO and Board Chair
Planned Parenthood of Greater New York: A Beacon in the Nationwide Fight for Reproductive Care and Abortion Access
Wendy Stark,
President & CEO
Bill Borner,
Board Chair
We in New York have a tremendous responsibility and a critical role in the long-term strategy for reproductive health care and rights since the fall of Roe v. Wade on June 24, 2022. Alongside our partners and supporters, we are proud to be working daily toward an infrastructure of policy, services, and funding that not only protects access to abortion care—but bends the curve toward advancing health equity.
Almost every day, PPGNY providers and social workers tend to the physical and emotional well-being of people – including those who have traveled to us from Louisiana, Ohio, Texas, and many other states where abortion is severely restricted or outright illegal. No one should have to leave their community to access abortion care.
While states across the country continue to disregard the basic health needs of millions of people, Planned Parenthood of Greater New York will continue to take bold and unprecedented action to build more capacity within our communities to provide excellent, accessible sexual and reproductive health care services that center principles of health equity.
Immediately after the Supreme Court decided to overturn Roe, we pushed back by increasing abortion appointment availability at all 23 health centers by 20% to reduce appointment wait times and maximize resources to care. We also dedicated a patient navigator to help people overcome the complexities of traveling across state borders for compassionate, nonjudgmental abortion care.
We continued our multi-faceted strategy to end health inequities, which means more than just clinical care. In addition to our health care and now patient navigation services, PPGNY continued to provide our multitude of social services across the state, like LGBTQ+ community engagement in the Southern Finger Lakes, sexual assault survivor support in Johnstown, and HIV prevention and support groups in the South Bronx. It's this kind of innovation—and deep community work—that allows us to meet our patients wherever they are, whenever they need us.
Our vision for a more equitable and inclusive future also required us to grapple with our past. In December 2021, through a campaign informed by our Reviving Radical racial justice initiative, New York City removed the street sign named after Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger. The un-naming of Margaret Sanger Square was the first of its kind in New York City history. This initiative demonstrates our commitment to reckon with the totality of Sanger’s legacy and systemic racism and ableism and build a more inclusive PPGNY.
These times are tough, but we are unwavering, we are powerful, and we will stop at nothing to ensure that everyone who needs it can access the care they need to live an empowered life. We are deeply grateful for each of you on this journey with us, and we are proud to fight daily alongside you for reproductive health, rights, and justice for all.
PPGNY By the Numbers
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PPGNY By the Numbers 💗
134, 863
Patient Visits
246,078
Online Activists
28,086
Abortions
Provided Care for Patients from 47 States
16,040
Adults Reached through Workshops
1,335
People Reached through Professional Trainings
6,554
Youth Reached through Workshops
4,043
Survivors Served through Survivor Support Services
1,276
Workshops for Youth
CARE WITH EQUITY
AT THE CENTER
During a year when our reproductive autonomy and access to care were under attack like never before, patients turned to New York for the support they needed.
PPGNY expanded our services and programming to meet all who come to us for care.
Modernizing Care in the Bronx and Brooklyn
In the spring of 2022, PPGNY celebrated the completion of expansion and modernization projects at our health centers in the Bronx and Brooklyn. The new and improved centers allow PPGNY to continue to advance health equity in two historically underserved communities through advanced access to services, improved functionality, and high-quality patient care.
Doubling Down on Abortion Access
PPGNY increased abortion appointment availability at all 23 health centers by 20%, in direct response to the U.S. Supreme Court’s dangerous decision to overturn Roe v. Wade and uphold Mississippi’s 15-week abortion ban. We also hired a Director of Patient Navigation to assist people who need to travel to New York from abortion-hostile states, facilitating travel, lodging, and securing funding on behalf of patients.
Sharing Our Knowledge
PPGNY's Clinical team brought back in-person training with external training programs in the summer of 2022 to increase the number of health care providers trained to provide high-quality sexual and reproductive health care. Partners include Mount Sinai Department of OB/GYN, and the Departments of Family Medicine at the Institute of Family Health and Montefiore Medical Center. The team anticipates adding training programs for additional learners.
Patient and Provider Testimonials
“I knew I had to quickly navigate to another state to access abortion care. After exploring a few options, I called Planned Parenthood of Greater New York. They were informative, and they ensured we had the financial support we needed through Brigid Alliance, an abortion fund. They took the stress off by booking room and board, flight tickets, meal stipends, and even childcare. The empathy and support we received gave us hope.”
- Nancy Davis, PPGNY Patient
“Patients are not only exhausting their time, they’re exhausting their finances, they’re exhausting their emotional supply and their support systems to be able to come to New York to receive life-saving or life-altering care. This is an injustice. No one should have to travel hundreds or even thousands of miles away to receive basic health care. My hope for the future of reproductive rights and justice is that reproductive health care, including abortion care, pregnancy loss management and care, and gender affirming care will be viewed as basic health care, because that is what it is.”
- Dr. Gabriela Aguilar, PPGNY Provider
Our Award-Winning Kingston Health Center
Our Kingston Health Center won the 2022 Chronogrammies Readers' Choice Awards for Best Public Health Organization! Thank you to the 20,000 people who participated in the Chronogrammies Readers’ Choice Awards.
Clinical Services By the Numbers
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Clinical Services By the Numbers 🩺
134,525
STI Tests
68,652
HIV Tests
14,907
Medication Abortions
13,179
In-Clinic Abortions
3,843
Transgender Health Care Visits
9,548
Pap Tests
449
Vasectomies
PUTTING OUR
COMMUNITIES FIRST
PPGNY’s mission to advance equitable access to sexual and reproductive health care and education can only be accomplished when we prioritize, listen to, and center the voices of marginalized communities—communities of color, LGBTQ+ communities, people with disabilities, undocumented migrants, and families with low incomes.
In our Community Engagement and Education & Training work, we ask ourselves:
How we can make our work more inclusive and accessible?
Who is not in the room?
Why?
These prompts, and the input we receive from our service communities through surveys, listening sessions, and advisory boards, help us ensure we are keeping equity at the center.
Sex Ed for All
PPGNY partnered with the Women’s Initiative of the NYC Department of Corrections and hosted Sex Ed for Adults workshops for the 250 people in their custody at the Rose M. Singer Center in Rikers Island. The team engaged participants who shared their personal experiences and challenges accessing care such as STI testing, and starting conversations about consent with their partners. Multiple participants expressed that they were grateful that the DOC allowed PPGNY to come in and share this information.
We shared dignity packs that included soap, deodorant, toothpaste, moist towels, tampons, and sanitary towels. These items are not readily accessible to incarcerated individuals, an incredibly marginalized population, composed mainly of people of color who experience delays and lack of access to sexual and reproductive health care and resources.
Direct Support to Survivors
PPGNY’s Survivor Support Services launched a centralized crisis hotline to continue providing 24-hour support to survivors of sexual violence, including help with crisis intervention, information on legal rights, help with safety planning, and advocacy during hospital exams to name just a few services.
Survivor Support Services also distributed $187,000 directly to individual families experiencing violence and needing to relocate. This pass-through grant was money entrusted to PPGNY by the Pandemic Emergency Assistance Fund and the Office for the Prevention of Domestic Violence.
Survivor Support Services also hired our first Spanish-speaking advocates and translated informational materials into Spanish.
Youth Summit
Through our Project STIQ youth program focused on Queens Community District 3, we hosted a Youth Summit for Queens youth. The event included keynotes from Assemblymember Jessica Gonzalez-Rojas and Stephanie Zapata; wellness activities like henna, meditation, reiki, and mindful coloring; food; and sexual and reproductive health workshops by our Youth Health Promoters and partner organizations. Our Project Street Beat mobile unit was available to offer services on-site.
The Un-Naming: A Reviving Radical Community Ritual
In a vote of solidarity with PPGNY and our communities, in December 2021 the New York City Council approved the removal of the street named Margaret Sanger Square outside PPGNY's Manhattan health center.
This un-naming demonstrates PPGNY’s commitment to reckon with the totality of our founder’s legacy and systemic racism and ableism, which negatively impacts the well-being of Planned Parenthood patients and staff.
PPGNY marked this incredible milestone with a community ritual. During The Un-Naming, Reviving Radical was joined by community members and healers to create space for new beginnings. The ceremony featured a community altar, and a ritual to symbolize the official un-naming and reclaiming of the land.
In 2020, PPGNY announced the removal of Margaret Sanger’s name from our Manhattan health center. Our reckoning with Sanger’s legacy is the result of our Reviving Radical initiative, a long-term investment in shaping a new vision for our relationship with and within the communities of color we serve, most of whom are Black, Latinx, LGBTQ+, and immigrant communities. This initiative and the community mandates resulting from it continue to influence all the work we do across PPGNY.
Our Work in Community
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Our community engagement team works to advance equitable access to care and education by “going deep”—building deep and meaningful partnerships with our communities to learn about the structural barriers they face and helping bridge the gaps. The Community Health Promoters hosted a Go Deep Event in Newburgh featuring residents, local leaders, and vendors to share resources available to the community.
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Through a PPFA grant, our community engagement team received medical interpretation training to help decrease the barriers experienced by people who are immigrants and have limited English proficiency. Our team regularly partners with Project Street Beat to provide medical interpretations to Spanish-dominant patients on the mobile health unit.
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Project Street Beat brought STI testing and treatment, PrEP and PEP for HIV prevention, pregnancy testing, and more to 643 patients in communities that otherwise lacked access to critical sexual and reproductive health care.
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Our Promotores de Salud, Community Health Promoters, Sex Ed for Adults, and Community Health Educators conducted remote and in-person outreach activities and provided workshops to communities of color, adults, local businesses, and organizations.
Our Work with Youth, Schools,
and Caregivers
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Our parent-peer educators facilitated workshops for parents and caregivers about communicating with their children about sexuality. The Adult Role Models reached 404 parents and caregivers in Queens, Bronx, Manhattan, and Brooklyn.
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PPGNY’s CAPP program continued reaching young people through our Virtual Sex Ed Office, and 489 youth met with an educator to ask questions or get support with making an appointment. The team provided 448 evidence-based sexual and reproductive health workshops reaching 12,775 young people.
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Our youth peer educators created new Instagram campaigns—Question of the Week series and Thirsty Thursday series—to reach their peers. They answered questions they received through short videos and memes.
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PPGNY continued working with this network of disability justice self-advocates and professionals to address the inequities in sexual health for youth with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
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PPGNY’s educators delivered evidence-informed workshops to middle and high school youth in under-resourced communities, including pop-ups that provide information about PPGNY services and community-informed topics like consent, puberty, menstruation, relationships, and birth control. The team hosted 448 workshops for 6,447 young people throughout New York City.
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The Learning and Practice team developed a new series, Educator Academy that provided training for PPGNY sexuality educators and staff on Trauma-Responsive Care, Managing Disclosures, Undoing Stigma, and Inclusive Anatomy. This builds critical staff capacity and knowledge when facilitating workshops in the field and providing more informed, inclusive, and compassionate responses to questions from our community. In collaboration with Project SHINE, they developed educational training on Accessibility and Disability Justice including an accessibility toolkit. The team trained professionals on Sex Ed Core Skills and Accessibility reaching 450 participants.
Out for Health
During Pride 2022, PPGNY launched our new digital resource site for Out for Health, our signature LGBTQ+ health and wellness program.
Out for Health was originally founded in 2009 by legacy Planned Parenthood of the Southern Finger Lakes. PPGNY provides outreach, education, support, and advocacy about the importance of LGBTQ+ inclusivity in care and education.
The new site connects new and existing patients and clients to our LGBTQ+ services, as well as a variety of local resources. PPGNY is proud to have an LGBTQ+ Navigator on staff who is also available to assist patients. Whether you're looking for referrals, information about gender-affirming care or trying to find a list of resources in your area, we’ve got you covered.
In 2022, community engagement staff trained 579 staff members across numerous agencies on how to create a welcoming environment for LGBTQ+ clients.
Our LGBT+ navigator supported hundreds of patients in accessing resources they need, including everything from letters of support for name/gender marker change to referrals for other LGBTQ+ friendly health care providers.
Our LGBT navigator has had several clients share that based on their negative historical health care experiences, they did not seek care for 10+ years. As a result, they have significant unaddressed health issues. Through our direct navigation support and provider trainings, we hope to reduce health disparities for the LGBTQ+ population.
BANS OFF
OUR BODIES
In the wake of the overturning of Roe, PPGNY marched, rallied, organized, and turned out for reproductive freedom.
We proudly and swiftly led rapid response mass mobilizations, creating powerful avenues for action for our patients, supporters, activists, and advocacy partners.
On May 14, 2022, tens of thousands of people outraged by the U.S. Supreme Court’s intent to overturn Roe marched across the Brooklyn Bridge.
In the style of Latin American “Cacerolazo” protests with pots, pans, and noisemakers, marchers shut down the Brooklyn Bridge as they crossed into Lower Manhattan. The march ended with a Welcome Village featuring calls to action, powerful performances, food trucks offering free lunch, art installations, and information booths. PPGNY was honored to be part of the coalition that led this event—and we continue to work alongside our partners to fight for the world that our communities deserve.
Fighting for Equal Rights
PPGNY proudly worked alongside partners and elected champions to help pass the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) in the New York State legislature. The ERA would upgrade the state’s constitution to explicitly prohibit discrimination by the government based on a person’s ethnicity, national origin, age, disability, and sex — including their sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy and pregnancy outcomes. The ERA is an important step toward protecting reproductive rights and access in New York following the overturning of Roe.
Pride and Protest
Planned Parenthood of Greater New York helped lead NYC’s Pride March on June 26, 2022, just two days after the Supreme Court wrongfully overturned Roe v. Wade. PPGNY stood in solidarity with Alexis McGill Johnson, PPFA’s President and CEO, and reproductive rights champions to signify that LGBTQ+ rights are reproductive rights—and vice versa.
Putting Intersectionality Into Practice
Taking an intersectional approach means centering the most marginalized communities in our fight for reproductive freedom. In 2022, PPGNY relaunched Raiz, a program committed to breaking barriers in accessing health care in the Latinx community. Through the expansion of our Black organizing program, PPGNY developed deep relationships with reproductive justice leaders who are at the forefront of building power for communities of color. PPGNY was instrumental in PPFA's support of the Indian Child Welfare Act. This was a promising step in active allyship with Indigenous communities.
Deepening Our Equity Work
Throughout the year, departments across PPGNY continued to embed equity into their work. Equity was front and center everywhere from increasing the number of providers trained in gender-affirming care and expanding outreach partnerships with local agencies that work with communities of color, to expanding legislative priorities to address more issues that impact our communities like criminal legal system reform and birth equity. PPGNY’s Equity & Learning team enhanced its learning spaces to support staff in centering equity, while honoring that staff and patients often experience oppression at the intersections of various systems, compounded by racism.
THE FIGHT
AHEAD:
BUILDING THE FUTURE TOGETHER
The abortion rights established by Roe 50 years ago were stolen from us last June. We know that a better, more equitable future is ours and we are committed to building it together.
Roe was always the floor—not the ceiling—and now we must reimagine what is possible for our communities. Our vision for the future centers those historically left behind, with the goal of creating a more equitable health care landscape for all.
Clinical
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PPGNY recognized World AIDS Day 2022, with the launch of our new fully integrated HIV health care and harm reduction program in the South Bronx. The Daphne Hazel Achievement Project strives to improve health outcomes for people living with HIV and at high risk of HIV infection by taking a holistic, patient-centered approach. Learn more about Daphne Hazel and the program.
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PPGNY has recently implemented a new electronic medical record system, Epic, to standardize care across our regions, increase accessibility, and streamline the patient experience.
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We have hired dedicated telehealth clinicians to increase the availability of telehealth appointments and help ensure patients can get care when and where they need it. We’re also working to launch a Virtual Health Center to streamline access to telehealth care.
Equity + Education
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PPGNY’s Education and Training team is developing a partnership with the Urban Indigenous Collective to prioritize working with indigenous populations.
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Reviving Radical is expanding to Mid-Hudson Valley. We’ve launched a Steering Committee of staff and community members to create a strategic work plan for initiating community events in this area.
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Project SHINE is developing an accessible toolkit and video game for young people with intellectual and developmental disabilities to support their learning about sexual and reproductive health.
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At the end of 2022, PPGNY was accepted into the 2023-2024 Pursuing Equity Learning Network at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement where we will work alongside other health care delivery organizations on equity-focused clinical improvements to drive more equitable outcomes for those we serve.
Advocacy
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Through the exciting relaunch of our Raíz program we are building sustainable community organizing by and for our Latinx community members. We have grown our team and hired a new Raíz Organizer. We also hired a new Manager of Campus Organizing and will expand our Planned Parenthood Generation Action program to bring more college students into our work.
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We’re looking forward to a robust Equal Rights Amendment voter education campaign to help get this critical bill to the finish line.
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We will continue to work in deep partnership across reproductive health, rights, and justice coalitions to protect and expand access to abortion and protect our dedicated providers in the wake of continued attacks on our care at the state and local level. We are dedicated to raising public awareness and educating our communities as continued threats to access and equity arise in the courts.
Our Financials
Where Our Operating Funds Come From
Patient Services: $38,597
Contributions: $26,468*
Government Grants: $22,525
Other Revenue: $5,345
*Includes Foundation Grants
Note: All numbers reflected in ‘000 (thousands).
How Our Funds Were Spent
Program Services
Patient Services: $56,971
Education/Outreach: $10,193
Public Affairs: $3,548
Total Program Services: $70,712
Administration: $15,784
Development/Fundraising: $4,065