2021 Annual Report

Planned Parenthood of the St. Louis

Region and Southwest Missouri
July 1, 2020 - June 30, 2021

NO MATTER
WHAT
 A MESSAGE FROM YAMELSIE
President and CEO, Planned Parenthood of the St. Louis Region and Southwest Missouri

Throughout our 2020-21 fiscal year, we have collectively weathered operationalize abortion-pill-by-mail. Planned Parenthood’s tagline —
the most contentious presidential election in modern history, a Care. No Matter What — isn’t just a tagline. It’s a call to action we
nationwide uprising for racial justice, unprecedented levels of hate operationalize every day.
and violence toward Black, Brown, Asian, Jewish, and trans people, as
well as members of other historically marginalized communities. We The Board of Directors approved a new strategic plan that outlines
did our best to endure the most deadly pandemic in modern history the vision for the organization for fiscal years 2021-2023. To follow
as it entered our homes, schools, and businesses, while shouldering through on these initiatives and lead the region in transforming the
a sense of collective and individual grief for those we’ve lost — all in sexual and reproductive health care landscape, the plan outlines the
real time. We live in a nation at its most divided, one where political three main ways PPSLRSWMO will do this:
agendas and white supremacist ideologies dictate to whom power
and privilege is afforded and to whom it is not. To say that we are • Lead the charge in reducing health disparities and increasing
all tired, both physically and emotionally, would be a profound access to high-quality, inclusive, and affordable reproductive health
understatement. But the fight I’ve seen in the PPSLRSWMO staff services, including abortion in the region.
and supporters like you never ceases to astound me.
• Protect reproductive freedom and access to care at Planned
Parenthood through political change, community awareness and
Whether it was implementing telehealth so patients have expanded
action.
access to care, adopting new health standards to protect our staff and
patients, moving our education programs into a virtual setting, digital • Pursue new levels of excellence in the delivery of care by
organizing, or responding to increased need for staff to access their leveraging innovation and new technology to increase our reach,
work in a remote setting, the flexibility and innovation of this team is impact, and long-term sustainability.
why we have so many things to celebrate in this annual report.
PPSLRSWMO’s incredible bench of leaders grew this year as well. We
This fiscal year, our affiliate was the first to innovate in a variety of welcomed Dr. Margaret Baum as Associate Medical Director, Bonyen
health care delivery models — we were the first provider in the state Lee-Gilmore as Vice President of Communications and Strategy, and
of Missouri to offer gender-affirming care regardless of a patient’s April Mickens Jolly transitioned into our new Vice President of Health
ability to pay; we were the first Planned Parenthood in the country to Equity and Culture role.
 Our staff achieved excellence in countless ways that changed the lives of patients
and was recognized by health care leaders in our federation. Planned Parenthood
Federation of America recognized PPSLRSWMO for patient experience
improvements in two metrics: “staff worked together to care for you” and
“likelihood to recommend”. Allison Kertz, Director of Centralized Clinical
Follow-Up, received the Beacon Award at the Annual PPFA National Medical
Committee meeting. The Beacon Award celebrates one health center staff
person from each affiliate who has gone above and beyond during the
COVID-19 pandemic. And our Director
of Surgical Services, Kawanna Shannon,
"The fight I’ve seen in was featured on the ABC mini-series
the PPSLRSWMO staff “Soul of a Nation”.
and supporters like These achievements don’t
you never ceases to happen in a silo.

astound me." There is a wave of

supporters behind
us — made up of
donors, volunteers, advocates, friends, family,
neighbors, elected allies, and more — and they all
make this work possible. YOU make this work
possible.

My gratitude, for each and every person on this team,

including you, is the same. It’s because of you that we
can continue serving patients, no matter what.

Yamelsie Rodrìguez
President and CEO, Planned Parenthood of the St. Louis
Region and Southwest Missouri

3
 During the July 2020 to 2021 Fiscal Year (FY 2021), PPSLR-

YEAR IN REVIEW SWMO bravely and safely met the profound challenges of
providing services during a pandemic.

July 2020 August 2020 September 2020 October 2020

The affiliate was awarded a grant to provide Plan Missouri voters approved a ballot Celebrated 1st anniversary of
B/Econtra, Ella, or the copper IUD to self-pay measure to expand Medicaid via a Fairview Heights Health Center.
patients in need of emergency contraception at all constitutional amendment.
PPSLRSWMO health centers.

November 2020 December 2020

Board of Directors approved a new Cole County Circuit Judge found that Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft To align our organization's philanthropy with our health
strategic plan for fiscal years 2021-2023. acted unconstitutionally when he shortened the time frame to gather care promise of care regardless of gender, the Women’s
signatures for a ballot initiative to repeal HB126. Leadership Circle transitioned to the Leadership Circle.

January 2021 February 2021 March 2021 April 2021

President Joe Biden and Vaccine rollout to the Community Engagement team Rollout of transgender care The St. Louis County Council passed a resolution in solidarity with
Vice President Kamala public begins. partnered with local businesses to program, “TRANSforming transgender residents, their families, and organizations working
Harris take office. provide safer sex kits to the St. Louis Community, TRANSforming toward equality. Planned Parenthood was among the organizations
community during Condom Week. Care.” named in the resolution as doing the work to combat hate, bigotry
and discrimination against LGBTQ+ people.

April 2021 May 2021

Virtual Leadership MO DHSS Dir. Randall Williams resigns, officially ending his harmful tenure. The Missouri legislative session ended without any funding for Planned Parenthood Advocates
Circle Luncheon, Williams, under the direction of Gov. Parson, led the charge to block RHS the voter-approved Medicaid Expansion. Debate over expansion in Missouri launched a petition
benefiting RHS. from receiving its abortion license. Williams is infamous for keeping a extended into reproductive rights as some Republican lawmakers calling on the Biden-Harris
spreadsheet of RHS patients’ menstrual cycles. tried to use the federal reimbursement allowance (FRA) — a administration to defend
must-pass hospital tax to receive federal Medicaid funds — to limit reproductive health care.
contraception access and bar PPSLRSWMO from the program.

June 2021

Gov. Mike Parson called a special session to get the FRA passed for the new fiscal year, which Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals upholds decision to
began July 1. Just after midnight on June 25, the Missouri Senate passed a clean FRA bill with block HB126 — blocking Missouri’s eight-week abortion
no birth control ban and no “defunding” measures against Planned Parenthood. The House ban from taking effect.
shortly followed suit. We fought and protected patients from this defunding effort.
"I lost my job and insurance due to
COVID and was worried about the
cost of the office visit + prescription.
The staff explained that I qualified for
financial assistance and got me taken
care of. I am so thankful for this office
and all the help that they provide
to people that find themselves in a
situation like mine."
 Here with you.
No matter what.
No one could have predicted the challenges this year would throw our way. But we’ve faced challenges
before. We’ve grown more resilient and more focused on our mission by using each challenge as an
ATIENT opportunity to innovate and increase access to care for our patients.

With Dr. Margaret Baum joining the team as Associate Medical Director, PPSLRSWMO was able to
begin offering advanced gynecological care to more patients. Some services, such as vasectomies,
colposcopies, and LEEP were already being provided at a limited capacity and now have more availability.
ERVICES
Other services, such as hysterectomies and fibroid treatment can be scheduled with our clinicians who
provide the high-quality, expert care patients expect.

In March 2021, almost all of the affiliate's health centers added one day of evening hours and Saturday
appointments to accommodate patients looking for care outside of traditional business hours. This schedule
expansion is part of an ongoing effort to meet patients where they are in the ways they need Planned
Parenthood most.

Our Patient Services Department added a new Centralized Clinical

Follow-Up team to improve patient communication and follow-up
processes. Created over the past year, the new team provides a wide
variety of functions including managing test results, educating patients
and partners about treatment, scheduling follow-up appointments
and following up with patients who need additional appointments.
The Centralized Follow-Up team also sends and requests medical
records for patients and providers for both Planned Parenthood and
RHS. With the new team, patients can get more timely and consistent
communication and support while health centers can better focus on
the patient in front of them.

Also during this time, our Research team was hard at work at the North County health center recruiting
patients for a study on a new yeast infection treatment, Brexafemme, which was recently approved by the
Food and Drug Administration.
VISITS BY SERVICE
42,873 TOTAL
VISITS

28,226 TOTAL PATIENTS

8,441 ABORTIONS

BIRTH CONTROL DISPENSED/PRESCRIBED

15,321 Includes the Shot, Pills, LARC, Ring, and Patch

STI SCREENING
29,371 Includes GCCT, HIV,
Syphilis,Trich, and
Herpes tests

2,609 CANCER PREVENTION

includes Breast Exams, HPV vaccines, Pap Smears, and Biopsies

1,230 EMERGENCY CONTRACEPTION

Patient
115 PrEP PRESCRIPTIONS Services

7
 WHERE WE SERVE
2 STATES 8 HEALTH CENTERS 98 COUNTIES

MISSOURI ILLINOIS
4
6 1 3
7 1 5 2
Health Centers Health Center

16,477 8,557
Unduplicated Unduplicated
Patients Patients 7
8

83% 15%
of Patients of Patients

1 Central West End Health Center, 4 North County Health Center

OTHER STATES Reproductive Health Services, West County Health Center
5
Administration
6 St. Peters Health Center
Patient 655 2% 2 South Grand Health Center
7 Springfield Health Center
Services Patients of Patients 3 Fairview Heights, Illinois
Health Center 8 Joplin Health Center
8
 PATIENTS GENDER
WHO WE SERVE IDENTITY
We cared for
22,623 3,045
28,226 TOTAL
PATIENTS
Number of first time
patients = 5,252 Ciswomen Cismen

38 121
Transwomen Transmen

202
Genderqueer /
Non-Binary
Patients Patients
by Age by Payer
Source

2,197
Unknown or
not disclosed

Ages 13-17 = 6% Public (Medicaid &

Medicare) = 20.7%
Ages 18-19 = 9%
Commercial Insurance =
Ages 20-34 = 67.5% 29.4% Clinical
Services
Ages 35-44 = 14.7% Self Pay = 50%
Ages 45 and older = 3.7%

Nominal variances in data by +/- 0.5% may exist, due to rounding.

9
 MAKING VIRTUAL THE REALITY:
Telehealth expands access to care
Virtual health care made a profound impact on patients during the first year of “It was my first video visit
COVID-19. In a matter of days, PPSLRSWMO and RHS stood up their telehealth to any doctor! I was very
service line. We knew this would expand access beyond a pandemic — it would
make health care more accessible, especially for rural communities, patients with nervous but both of the
transportation challenges, and people with busy schedules. nurses were very friendly,
helpful and informative!
Our two virtual health care options — PP Direct and telehealth — meet people where
they are, bringing them critical preventive services including birth control, STI It was a breeze!”
treatments, medication abortion, and other sexual and reproductive health care.
- PPSLRSWMO telehealth patient

PP Direct patient
visits by service:
5,385 Unduplicated patients
seen via Telehealth
1,663
19
2,007 Total PP Direct visits Emergency
Contraception
Birth
Control

51 Number of Illinois
Counties Represented

308
Patient
86 Number of Missouri
Counties Represented UTI
Treatment
19
Other

Services

10
TRANSforming COMMUNITY
TRANSforming CARE
Transgender, or trans, and non-binary communities have always relied on Planned Parenthood for judgment-free care,
including STI testing and treatment, cancer screenings, birth control, and more. In March 2021, amidst an unrelenting year of
legislative attacks against the transgender community, Metro Trans Umbrella Group (MTUG) and PPSLRSWMO announced
TRANSforming Community TRANSforming Care, known as “TC2”, a program that will expand health care services, conduct
trauma-informed research, and build a sex education curriculum tailored toward the transgender community.

This multi-million dollar investment from the Missouri Foundation for Health is Missouri’s first trans health care
partnership of-its-kind — expanding access to trans care regardless of a patient’s ability to pay. It will be designed by
and for the trans and non-binary community.

“Planned Parenthood is committed to

ensuring every person is the expert of
their own life and that starts with having
135
unduplicated
a trusted, competent health care home.
patients in
The reality is, more often than not, that is a
privilege that isn’t afforded to every person
in the transgender community. This new
238 visits

partnership with MTUG is only the beginning

of our work to address health care gaps
unique to trans patients.”

–Dr. Colleen McNicholas Patient

Chief Medical Officer, Planned Parenthood of the St. Louis Services
Region and Southwest Missouri
11
 NO MATTER WHERE.
NO MATTER WHEN.
NO MATTER WHAT.
RHS is the leading provider of abortion and other gynecological
services in the bi-state area and is the last abortion clinic in Missouri.
Total
We know that abortions are time-sensitive, necessary health care 6,387 Abortions
and that is why we fight not only to protect access to abortion, but to
expand it. Since the opening of our Fairview Heights health center,
we’ve implemented hours and staffing models that ensure that
abortion can be available to all those in the region who may need it.

Medication (381 provided

In 2020, RHS in Illinois pioneered a new form of abortion 3,939 Abortions via telehealth)
access when it became the first Planned Parenthood to provide
medication abortion by mail. Unlike the traditional in-person
model, where a patient visits a health center and receives abortion
services from an on-site clinician, this “direct-to-patient” model
allows patients to have abortion pills mailed directly to their home Surgical
in Illinois after a telemedicine consultation. In 2020, the Trump 2,448 Abortions
administration opposed a lawsuit seeking to lift the FDA’s ban on the
distribution of medication abortion by mail during the pandemic,
pausing our program. In 2021, under the Biden administration, the
FDA announced that it would allow medication abortion by mail, and
RHS staff worked incredibly hard to get the program back up and TeleMABs, medication abortions provided
operating within 24 hours of the announcement. RHS is the only via telehealth, are currently only available
Planned Parenthood in Illinois providing this service at this time. to patients who are able to be in Illinois at
the time the medications are dispensed.
Additional criteria must be met to qualify for
Patient a TeleMAB, so a screening is done at the time
Services of scheduling.
Reproductive Health Services of Planned Parenthood
of the St. Louis Region

12
 144%
INCREASE

53% in patients
outside of
INCREASE
Missouri
and Illinois
in patients seeking
seeking medication
services abortions
from RHS from RHS
from from FY20
FY20 to FY21. to FY21.

AS ABORTION RESTRICTIONS
INCREASE IN OUR REGION, AND
ACCESS CONTINUES TO NARROW,
WE'RE SEEING A RIPPLE EFFECT "With everyone being booked because
of the pandemic, it can be a little difficult
ON PATIENTS. FOR FAR TOO MANY,
to get things taken care of immediately
A POST-ROE REALITY HAS ARRIVED but the staff made it easy and were
EVEN WHILE ROE REMAINS THE communicating awesomely; going above
and beyond to assist me and that made me
LAW OF THE LAND.
feel like I matter."
 The spread of COVID-19 changed everything – the way we work, travel, shop, and socialize, as well as
the way young people access the education they need. When in-person contact was significantly limited,
PPSLRSWMO’s Education team adapted quickly. Usually relying on face-to-face interactions between
young people and their peers, the program switched gears, facilitating virtual conversations and meetings,
and supplying teachers with tools they needed for virtual conversations with students.

DUCATION Reaching beyond basic reproductive anatomy, Planned Parenthood’s sex education curriculum explores
subjects like healthy relationships, communication and consent, setting life goals, and more. This deeper
dive enables participants to see how their sexual behaviors can affect their lives at large, empowering
them to understand their autonomy, communicate better with partners and caring adults, and have overall
healthier relationships.

Confronting biases in sex ed

During the 2021 fiscal year, PPSLRSWMO’s Education team developed the curriculum for a first-of-its-kind
training for sex educators, focusing on anti-bias and anti-racism in sex education. This curriculum is the
only in the Planned Parenthood Federation, and in 2022 is being offered as a “train-the-trainer” model in
partnership with other affiliate education staff and community partners.

42 82
EX

Youth-serving Education
professionals trained sessions

145 1,472
Medical professionals Total participants in
trained through education sessions
PPSLRSWMO’s partnership
with Washington University
School of Medicine
JUST A
TEXT AWAY
PPSLRSWMO was one of 16 affiliates selected to
participate in the Federation’s Chat/Text program. This
program enables adolescents and young adults to
contact Planned Parenthood health educators through
text or instant messaging to ask questions about
birth control, emergency contraception, STI testing,
pregnancy, or abortion. People can access Chat/Text by
texting "PPNOW" to 774636 (PPINFO) or through the
Planned Parenthood website.

Education expands access to

Sunnen Family Library
Through a new grant, the Education team is expanding
the materials available at the Sunnen Family Library
and making those materials more accessible through a
new online platform. The Sunnen Family Library offers
parents, students, educators, and medical professionals
the most extensive collection of sexuality education resources in the St. Louis metropolitan area.

With a Dana Brown Charitable Trust award, the library is able to accommodate patrons in a new and more flexible way.
Community members are able to access the library’s entire catalog online through Libib at https://sunnenlibrary.libib.com/.
Those interested in borrowing materials can then contact [email protected] to check out materials.

While the Sunnen Family Library has been growing and available to the public since before the pandemic, the new library
program allows the department to better track materials and better inform patrons about what the library has from the comfort
of their homes. Sex
Education

15
ADVOCACY
Protecting essential care stops for nothing - even a pandemic
After years of work, Missourians came together across party lines and voted to expand Medicaid,
bringing affordable health care to more than 200,000 Missourians.

Our grassroots organizers and volunteer coordinators worked around the clock towards this victory. Planned
Parenthood was part of the original Medicaid Expansion coalition that started over 10 years ago — working in
collaboration with the Missouri Organizing and Voter Engagement Collaborative (MOVE Action) to execute
a strategic electoral program to activate voters and mobilize our
robust supporter base.

PPSLRSWMO is excited to be part of future enrollment efforts

as we work in partnership with community leaders to ensure all
eligible Missourians can access affordable health care through the
Medicaid program.

4,550 288,500
signatures collected to qualify total voter contacts for
Amendment 2 for the ballot Amendment 2

Tearing down roadblocks to care

In May 2021, the Missouri legislative session ended without any funding for the voter-approved Medicaid
expansion, defying the state constitution and the will of the people. Debate over expansion extended into
reproductive rights as some Republican lawmakers tried to use the federal reimbursement allowance (FRA)
— a must-pass hospital tax to receive federal Medicaid funds — to ban birth control and block Medicaid
patients from accessing Planned Parenthood health centers.

But the attacks failed. Together, we stopped the birth control ban and won a clean FRA that protects
funding for hospitals, nursing homes, and other essential health care providers, including Planned
Parenthood, and reaffirms the right of all patients to choose their own health care providers.

We owe our thanks to our legislative champions and our community partners, particularly the
Missouri Family Health Council and Pro-Choice Missouri — this is a shared victory.
Advocates of Planned
Parenthood of the St. Louis
Region and Southwest Missouri
is a 501(c)(4) nonprofit organization that primarily engages
in education, lobbying, organizing, and other social welfare
activities. Advocates works to advance legislation that
improves access to sexual and reproductive health care
and to stop restrictive legislation.

2020 Electoral Impact

289,854
Digital ad reach

116,006
Phone dials

1,776
Volunteer hours over the course
of 775 volunteer shifts

429,594
Mailers delivered to voters

216,867
Text messages

17
 ENGAGING FUTURE
GENERATIONS
Generation Action chapters are a network of young activists who take action
on their college campuses and in their communities to mobilize advocates
for reproductive freedom. In addition to raising public awareness about
reproductive health, rights, and justice, Generation Action chapters educate
young people about sexual health, and creating lasting change in those
communities.

Advocates is committed to building a robust, region-wide network of

leaders and providing them with the tools needed to create change through
a range of local campaigns, trainings, and leadership opportunities. This
unique network acknowledges and supports the dynamic perspectives and Black Organizing Program
intersectional framework that grassroots organizers are using to connect
The Black Organizing Program, which started
reproductive health to other issues that are important to young people — like
in 2021, is an organized effort to elevate voices
voting rights, economic justice, immigration, and the environment.
within the Black community and center our
advocacy work in civic participation. Through
With more than 6 campus groups across Illinois and Missouri, these
thoughtful engagement and coalition-
volunteers are harnessing their power, energy, and enthusiasm to fight
building, we work alongside Black leaders,
for reproductive freedom and for fundamental justice for all.
community members, elected officials, and
institutions advancing the safety, protection,
and wellness of Black Missourians.
Generation Action chapters
are hard at work at: Advocates of Planned Parenthood of the
St. Louis Region and Southwest Missouri
Harris Stowe State University knows that when we support and uplift
Missouri State University the political and social power of Black
Southeast Missouri State University communities through advocacy, education,
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville and resource distribution, we will build
Washington University an equitable, sustainable, and inclusive
Advocacy
movement that centers those who are most
impacted.
18
 Protecting the Vote -
No Matter What.
In 2020, getting out the vote became
a top priority. During the primary, the
spread of COVID-19 threatened in-
person voting, and voter suppression
efforts compounded the impact.
Thanks to valuable collaboration with
other state organizations and generous
help from our supporters, Advocates
of Planned Parenthood of the St. Louis
Region and Southwest Missouri was
able to galvanize our communities
through several efforts.

Together, we navigated the second Missouri legislative session during a pandemic — the second session in which state lawmakers refused
to abide by CDC guidelines to minimize the spread of COVID-19. Through it all, Planned Parenthood and our supporters remained
dedicated to protecting reproductive freedom.

Advocates in Missouri fought back, hosting virtual lobby days and volunteer opportunities, and defeated all 16 anti-abortion bills
introduced in 2021. We joined our partners who defeated anti-trans bills, and together, we helped pass a bill that will expand access to HIV
prevention medication.

Throughout the pandemic, much of our advocacy and community engagement efforts shifted to virtual platforms.

46 168,085 928 177 33 20

Patients & Phone dials Volunteer shifts Advocacy and Lobby Day Presentations to
supporters who filled community participants partner organizations
shared their
213,322 engagement
story publicly
Text messages sent 2,472 events
738 Advocacy
Volunteer hours Presentation
worked participants

19
 Reckoning with History resources specific to advancing equity — internally
and in the communities we serve. The groundwork
White supremacy and systemic racism permeate for transformational organization-wide change was

UR VALUES
every American institution. And Planned laid, with April Mickens Jolly at the helm as the
Parenthood is not exempt. In April 2021, Planned organization’s first Vice President of Health Equity
Parenthood Federation of America CEO, Alexis & Culture.
McGill Johnson, wrote in the New York Times that
Planned Parenthood was “done making excuses for As our new strategic plan demonstrates, we will
our founder.” continue to put our patients, staff, and community
at the center of everything we do. We will embed
PPSLRSWMO recognizes Margaret Sanger, the equity into our work from the ways we recruit and
founder of the organization that went on to become train staff, to the support we offer patients that
Planned Parenthood, believed in eugenics and extends beyond our doors.
IVING
perpetuated systemic racism, which is in direct
opposition to our mission. We denounce Margaret We will prioritize expanding access to health care.
Sanger’s belief in eugenics, the origins and We will actively work to collaborate with community
impact of anti-Blackness in gynecology and the partners and individuals from communities
reproductive rights movement, and all forms of impacted by discrimination and exclusion. As we
mistreatment that continue against BIPOC people do this work, we will continue to solicit and accept
in this country. We are committed to righting the honest feedback, and continuously learn from our
wrongs Sanger and her legacy have inflicted upon mistakes with grace and humility. We pledge to do
generations of people with disabilities, Black, Latinx, this work until full health, dignity, belonging, and
AAPI, and Indigenous people. self-determination are a reality for everyone.

More Than Words We Demand Justice

Findings from our first internal Climate and Every system that governs us — education, policing,
Belonging Survey showed PPSLRSWMO leadership transportation, housing, health care, and more —
gaps in our equity work — particularly how people needs accountability. And until Black, Indigenous,
across racial and ethnic groups, gender identities, Asian, Latinx, trans, religious minorities, and other
sexual orientations, and disability status experience people with historically excluded identities can go
working for the affiliate and our mission. Leadership for a walk, bird watch, live their lives, worship, or
vowed to demonstrate a commitment to equity protest without the fear of violence, people won't
through tangible actions. be free. And if some people aren't free, none of us
are. PPSLRSWMO stands in solidarity against white
In building the affiliate budget for fiscal year 2022, supremacy in all its manifestations.
leadership and the Board of Directors increased
Facing a Layered Crisis with a Layered Response
Achieving health equity requires fighting systemic racism and intersecting
oppressions that create barriers to sexual and reproductive health care. The
unrelenting COVID-19 pandemic and discriminatory health care policies
continue to impact people seeking care at Planned Parenthood. The
pandemic highlighted the disproportionate burdens Black, Latinx, Indigenous,
other people of color, and disabled people face in the health care system.
These are the same communities that shouldered higher infection and death
rates, and the heaviest toll of the economic fallout. This has to change. We are
committed to being a part of that change.

MEET APRIL
Tending to Our Team April Mickens Jolly has worked in health care administration
We all know that we must care for ourselves for over a decade. She currently serves as a leader at Planned
in order to care for others. Our leaders know Parenthood of the St. Louis Region and Southwest Missouri,
that the patient experience in our health where she has led teams that provide direct patient care, and
centers depends on an environment where now leads strategy to advance equity across the organization
every member of our team feels supported. and in collaboration with community partners. Previously
PPSLRSWMO is a leading employer that she worked at the St. Louis Regional Health Commission, a
cares for its people — not only in community leader in providing and advocating for improved
sentiment, but also in action. In Fiscal access to health care for marginalized and low-income
Year 2021, we launched significant St. Louisans.
enhancements to employee benefits
including a paid parental leave April serves on the Alumni Board of Governors for Washington
program, living wage increases, University, and is active in several not-for-profits as a board
and special PTO in response to member or volunteer, including the March of Dimes and
COVID-19. the Delmar Divine Charitable Foundation, in addition to The
Scholarship Foundation of St. Louis. She endeavors to serve
as an equity champion in every space she occupies. April's
bachelor's degree is from the Olin School of Business at
Washington University. She holds both an MBA and MHA from
Georgia State University.

21
1 PROMISE; 4 AFFILIATED ORGANIZATIONS
Care. Act.
No matter what. No matter what.
Planned Parenthood of the St. Louis Region and Advocates of Planned Parenthood of the St. Louis Region
Southwest Missouri is a 501(c)(3) health care, patient and Southwest Missouri is a 501(c)(4) social welfare
focused organization that provides, protects, and supports organization focused on advancing, improving, and stopping
sexual and reproductive health services, access and rights. legislation that affects patients of Planned Parenthood.

Planned Parenthood addresses the health of the community To advance reproductive rights, Advocates of Planned
through: Parenthood of the St. Louis Region and Southwest Missouri:
• Contraception and family planning • Educates and organizes the public
• Cancer Screenings: cervical, breast, testicular, and prostate • Registers, informs, and mobilizes voters
• Sexually Transmitted Infection (STI) testing and treatment • Promotes policies that help people access health care and
• Medically accurate, age-appropriate sex education advance reproductive freedom
• Advocacy to protect reproductive health care and rights • Works with reproductive health champions in state and
• Research to advance the field of sexual and reproductive local elected offices
health • Stands in solidarity with social justice partners

Reproductive Health Services of Planned Parenthood of Planned Parenthood Votes – St. Louis and Southwest
the St. Louis Region is a 501(c)(3) health care, patient focused Missouri is a 527 nonprofit organization – Missouri Political
organization that is committed to supporting any person Action Committee (PAC) – dedicated to the election of
facing a high-risk, complicated, or unintended pregnancy. candidates who support Planned Parenthood.

Despite ever-increasing restrictions and existing mandates Planned Parenthood Votes supports candidates and issues
in the state of Missouri, Reproductive Health Services is at the state and local level; Planned Parenthood Action
determined to continue providing access to safe and legal Fund is the non-partisan organization that supports federal
abortion care. candidates.
 FY2020-2021 SURPLUS *
$4,849,025
REVENUE: $21,133,200
*Includes Net Unrealized Gains on Investments of $5,254,263
INDIVIDUAL AND FOUNDATION
CONTRIBUTIONS

Contributions
EXPENSES: $16,284,175
$4,464,496
PROGRAM SERVICES
Contributions-In-Kind Family Planning
$196,595 $8,097,812

Surgical/ Abortion Services

$3,661,461
PATIENT SERVICES &
PROGRAM FEES Education Services/Programs
$457,801
Patient Fees-Family Planning
$5,788,731

Patient Fees-Abortion SUPPORT SERVICES

$3,400,174
Management and General
$944,022

Development/
PUBLIC POLICY Communications $692,299
$613,929

PUBLIC RELATIONS &

PUBLIC AFFAIRS
MISCELLANEOUS
Marketing/Communications
lnvestment Income* $1,160,253
$5,734,550
Lobbying $154,503
Miscellaneous Income
Public Policy $866,723
$934,725
Political Activity $249,301
DIRECTORS & LEADERSHIP
Board of Directors Board Committee Board Members Senior Staff
Executive Committee Leaders
Susan Appleton President and Chief
Board Chair Leadership & Governance Christina Cavazos Bennett Executive Officer
Shonagh Clements Linda Raclin Shonagh Clements Yamelsie Rodrìguez
Joan Culver
Vice Chair & Treasurer Finance & Audit Erika Dahlin-Lee Chief Medical Officer
Christina Cavazos Bennett Christina Bennett Alissa Duel Colleen McNicholas, DO,
David Goerisch MSCI, FACOG
Vice Chair Development Sheila Greenbaum
Linda Raclin Deborah Patterson Jaimie Hileman Senior Vice President
Amy Hunter Administration and Compliance
Secretary Legislative & Political Maureen Jordan Cathy Williams
Dr. Jacqueline Turner Dana Sandweiss Jessica Levy
Linda Locke Vice President of Finance
Assistant Treasurer Education Dr. Julia Lopez Bill Dean
David Goerisch Susan Stiritz Steve Novik
Kim Olson Vice President of Health Equity
Immediate Past Board Chair Deborah Patterson and Culture
Linda Locke Linda Raclin April Mickens Jolly
Dana Sandweiss
Board Chair Apointee Sally Scott Vice President of Education, Policy
Sheila Greenbaum Andrew Shaughnessy & Community Engagement
Jennifer Shaw Angie Postal
Miriam Singer
Rose-Lynn Sokol Vice President of Development
Susan Stiritz Toni Schneider
Jay Summerville
Dr. Heidi Tastet Vice President of Strategy and
Dr. Jacqueline Turner Communications
Bob Watt Bonyen Lee-Gilmore
Vivian Zwick

*as of 6/30/2021