PLANNED PARENTHOOD

Education and community engagement - ppcw is the leading provider of comprehensive sex education and youth peer education and leadership in oregon and southwest washington. Recognizing that health literacy and health care access are directly linked to improving individual and community health outcomes, we implement sex education and awareness programming throughout our service areas to include referrals, to build knowledge of existing resources, and to develop agency to access them.see schedule oour overarching goal is to increase young people's access to sex education and reproductive and sexual health care, and we are prioritizing serving bipoc and lgbtq2sia+ young people and their communities. Ppcw's robust education, outreach, and engagement work is guided by a model that 1) empowers young people to protect their health and increases access to health care services; 2) builds expertise for sex education and health literacy with youth, parents and families, teachers and service providers; and 3) works collaboratively with the communities we serve.ppcw's programs and services include curriculum-based workshops for middle school, high school, and college students; teen council peer education program for high school students and their peers; training and workshops for teachers, youth-service providers, and parents to help answer young peoples' questions related to sexual health and to help them identify healthy decisions for their futures; and informational outreach about health care services and how to access those services.