Who We Are

October 1st, 2007 was an historic day for two of Michigan’s oldest Planned Parenthood affiliates – the Mid-Michigan Alliance, based in Ann Arbor, and the Southeast Michigan affiliate, serving the Metropolitan Detroit area – as they took a bold step into the future by consolidating the two affiliates to form Planned Parenthood Mid and South Michigan.

Ann Arbor and the metro Detroit area have a rich history of involvement with Planned Parenthood dating back to 1922, when Margaret Sanger came to Detroit to affirm every woman’s right to limit the size of her family. A grant from the Jewish Welfare Federation in 1927 made the opening of the Mother’s Clinic possible and laid the foundation for the Southeast Michigan affiliate.

In 1931, the first birth control clinic operating within a hospital in the United States opened in Harper Hospital in Detroit, the same year that Michigan Birth Control League was founded.
The next year – 1932 –the Michigan Birth Control League became the Maternal Health League of Michigan. Eight Michigan cities informally organized their own committees, including Ann Arbor and Detroit.
It was in 1935 that the Ann Arbor committee opened its Ann Arbor Maternal Health Clinic in a rented, seven-room house at 738 N. Main Street, which marked the beginning of what became the Mid-Michigan Alliance.

After its formation in 1932, Planned Parenthood of Southeast Michigan had grown to three clinics serving 709 patients for $5,438 in 1941.
The new Mid and South Michigan affiliate serves 50,000 patients at 11 health centers, from Benton Harbor to Detroit.

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Planned Parenthood Mid and South Michigan service area, the area where we can provide health and education services and raise funds, is: Washtenaw Lenawee, Clinton, Monroe, Livingston, Ingham, Eaton, Jackson, Berrien, Cass, Oakland, Macomb, Wayne, St. Clair and Van Buren counties. We currently have health center sites in Ann Arbor, Detroit, Warren, Livonia, Ypsilanti, Brighton, Jackson, Lansing, East Lansing and Benton Harbor.

We are funded through a variety of sources, including private donations, philanthropic grants, client fees, Medicaid reimbursement, state pregnancy funds, and Title X (a federally funded program to help people in poverty receive family planning care). We may receive United Way contributions by designation but it is not a funded agency.