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Reaching the unreachable -- teen pregnancy prevention in Westchester County
Planned Parenthood Hudson-Peconic’s Smart Wheels vans fulfill a vital need, serving the most at-risk and hardest-to-reach women and men in our communities who may not have access to our medical centers and care. [PPHP is] enhancing core services aboard the Westchester-based van by increasing education and services to women of childbearing age and expanding sexually transmitted infection (STI) testing. |
"Our Daughter’s Emergency — Plan B for Our Family”Future Choices TV episode Dr. Ann Engelland comes to Future Choices TV in March 2009 for "Our Daughter’s Emergency — Plan B for Our Family” to help parents guide their teens through the daunting challenges of developing healthy social relationships during their high school and early college years. |
“Opening Doors to Women’s Health”Future Choices TV episode
In December 2007 Future Choices TV focused on the superlative level women's health care in Westchester County, NY, offered by Open Door Family Medical Centers. In this program, Lindsay Farrell, CEO & President of Open Door Family Medical Centers in Westchester County, asserts that by providing dignified, quality health care to the poorest of Westchester County’s women and their families, we ensure better health and well-being for all families in our community. She avows that "health care is a right and not a privilege. |MORE |
"Westchester County: Caring About Women"Future Choices TV episode In May and June of 2007 Joshua Lipsman, Commissioner of Health for Westchester County, and Judy Myers, County Legislator for the 7th District, joined Future Choices TV for a two-part series, "Westchester County: Caring About Women," to reveal the essential services provided by the Westchester Health Department, and, especially, the Department’s initiatives designed to safeguard the reproductive health for every woman in the County. |MORE |
"Janet DiFiore: Protecting Reproductive Rights in Westchester County" in September 2006. District Attorney Janet DiFiore details the role of her office to ensure that County residents are free to exercise their rights. |
| In "Cancer Support Team: First To Care When the Need Is There" the Executive Director of one of Westchester County's premier non-profit service agencies, Cancer Support Team, tag-team dynamically with two of the nurse counselors to give a summary of services provided by the agency and to pinpoint the essential information people should know about breast and ovarian cancer. |
| The Resource Foundation of Larchmont (NY) works with local patrons in Central and South America to improve people's lives. In "The Resource Foundation Brings New Choices to Latin Americans" we traveled to the Dominican Republic and Brazil to see how The Resource Foundation enables disadvantaged people to plan their lives for a brighter future. thanks to the access which the Resource Foundation brings to high quality family planning and HIV/AIDS care. |
AIDS-Related Community Services (ARCS) is the largest organization dedicated solely to providing HIV/AIDS services to people in New York's Hudson Valley Region. Founded in 1983 it now services the needs of over 25,000 community members through offices in Dutchess, Orange, Putnam, Sullivan, Ulster and Westchester Counties. Hudson Valley AIDS WALK Scheduled in Poughkeepsie for September 30, 2006 |