From a single office located in Plattsburgh, NY at Champlain Valley Physicians Hospital (CVPH) to a multi-service health care organization, Northern Adirondack Planned Parenthood has delivered essential sexual and reproductive health services to thousands of women, men, and teens for over 30 years. While NAPP has evolved into a two-county reproductive health care organization, Planned Parenthood's fundamental mission to create a community in which every child is born wanted, nurtured and loved has remained unchanged.
May 1971
Steering Committee organized
October 1971
Planned Parenthoood of Clinton County (PPCC) opens a one-room office in CVPH
PPCC is incorporated
July 1972
PPCC receives federal funds to hire staff
July 1973
PPCC offers first contraceptive clinic
July 1975
PPCC moves to 94 Margaret St, Plattsburgh, NY
January 1976
PPCC offers pregnancy testing/options counseling
May 1976
PPCC trains first nurse practitioner
May 1977
PPCC is accepted as United Way of Clinton County member agency
April 1978
PPCC opens STI screening clinic
June 1978
PPCC moves to 66 Brinkerhoff St.
October 1980
PPCC receives approval to initiate Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention Services Program (APPS)
January 1982
Board of Directors votes to merge with Franklin County Chapter of Northern New York to form Northern Adirondack Planned Parenthood
January 1983
NYS Division of Youth begins funding Education Program
September 1988
HIV Testing begins for family planning clients
October 1988
Organization of grassroots community coalition begins
January 1989
Saranac Lake moves to 47 Main Street, Saranac Lake, NY
250 people participate in Plattsburgh Pro-Choice Rally and March
April 1989
NAPP supporters participate in Washington, D.C. March for Equality
May 1990
Clinton County United Way removes NAPP as a member agency
Major fundraising and development begins
February 1991
NAPP is accepted as a United Way member agency in Franklin County
August 1991
HIV testing begins for male patients
February 1992
Norplant introduced
June 1992
NAPP's first Capital Campaign is launched
October 1992
Renovations and additions begin at Plattsburgh office
March 1993
Depo Provera introduced
Capital Campaign meets goal
July 1993
Building dedication celebration for NAPP's Plattsburgh Health Center
May 1994
NAPP begins to provide abortion services
December 1995
Colposcopy/Cryosurgery services begin
July 1996
Cryotherapy services for Condyloma begin
August 1996
Hepatitis B services begin
September 1996
Education Department begins one-on-one education to youth referred through Juvenile Justice System
February 1997
Early Uterine Evacuation (EUE) procedures begin
October 1997
NAPP celebrates 25 years of services to Clinton and Franklin Counties
December 1997
Loop Electrosurgical Excision Procedures (LEEP) begin
February 1998
NAPP produces and places the first print and radio advertisements in its service area to promote emergency contraception- a special dose of birth control pills that can prevent pregnancy up to 72 hours after unprotected sex
October 1998
NAPP celebrates the 25th anniversary of Roe v. Wade
June 1999
Alexander Sanger, grandson of Planned Parenthood Founder Margaret Sanger, speaks at NAPP's 28th Annual Meeting
August 1999
NAPP begins to provide education programs in several correctional facilities in Clinton and Franklin Counties
November 1999
NAPP celebrates when Governor George Pataki signs the Clinic Access and Anti-Stalking Act to increase criminal penalties for those who commit violence against women's health care facilities
June 2000
Emily Lyons, bombing survivor of an abortion clinic, speaks at NAPP's 29th Annual Meeting
August 2000
Executive Director, Roberta Merrens announces her retirement from NAPP after 23 years with the organization
March 2001
Kathie Wunderlich, NP, is hired as NAPP's new Executive Director.
May 2001
PPFA President Gloria Feldt is the guest speaker at NAPP's 30th anniversary celebration
June 2001
NAPP expands its abortion services with the drug mifepristone, formerly known as RU-486
January 2003
NAPP celebrates 30 years since Roe v. Wade
January 2004
NAPP begins to provide medication abortion in Franklin County
April 2004
More than 100 activists represent NAPP in Washington, DC at the March for Women's Lives.
January 2005
NAPP's Board of Directors votes to add Sexual Assault Services
August 8, 2005
Sexual Assault Services of Northern Adirondack Planned Parenthood launches.
