History

  • May 1975 - Planned Parenthood Association of Humboldt County was incorporated and formed its first Board of Directors.
  • February 1975 - Received funding from the State Office of Family Planning.  We rented a building on E Street in Henderson Center, hired a core staff and trained volunteers.
  • May 1976 - Offered our first family planning clinic as well as daily pregnancy testing and counseling.  Services also included treatment of sexually transmitted disease as well as urinary tract infections.
  • September 1977 - Started our Education Department with federal family planning funding.  We hired an Information & Education Director and two health educators who taught a 5 to 15 day family life sex education course in local high schools.  We also began training high school teachers to take over the teaching so we could introduce programs in the junior high schools.  From 1979-1982, a sexuality education program was developed for the disabled.  The 1980s saw the development of young adult and parent education programs.
  • August 1978 - Began our vasectomy program which offers education and counseling by trained, male volunteers at our facility. The operation itself was performed by local physicians in their offices.
  • October 1979 - Began offering first trimester abortion services.
  • April 1981 - Began offering tubal ligation for low and moderate income women.  Counseling and education done at Planned Parenthood and procedure performed at General Hospital.
  • July 1984 - Expanded our family planning services to Trinity County where we assumed operation of the County Health Dept.’s family planning clinic.  Services offered weekly in  Weaverville and twice monthly in Hayfork.  Expanded our education program into Trinity    and Del Norte Counties.  In 1985, a part-time educator was hired in Trinity County.
  • March 1986 - Began offering cancer screening services for low income women who   aren’t  necessarily of child-bearing age.
  • September 1986 - Changed name to Six Rivers Planned Parenthood.
  • August 1988 - Began performing tubal ligations in our own clinic.  We are one of only two clinics in California which did this procedure in house.
  • June 1989 - Began doing AIDS testing and counseling.
  • July 1990 - Began our drop-in, full-service Teens Only Clinic, every Thursday from 3:00 to 5:30 at our Eureka Clinic.
  • February 1991 - Began offering male services, stressing sexually transmitted disease diagnosis and screening.
  • January 1992 - Began a second Teens Only Clinic on Tuesdays from 3:00 to 5:30 at our Eureka Clinic.
  • May 1992 - Began offering the ENABL (Education Now and Babies Later) peer education program in Humboldt County Schools.
  • January 1993 - Expanded our Weaverville Clinic and moved to a new site.
  • February 1993 - Started Norplant services at the Eureka clinic.
  • Fall 1993 - Began offering monthly menopause workshops.
  • December 1993 - Began offering Depo-Provera.
  • December 1993 - Moved to a new site in Hayfork.
  • January 1994 - Began offering pregnancy testing/counseling on Alps View High School campus in Weaverville.
  • May 1995 - Began offering annual exams/STI treatments on Alps View campus.
  • 1995 – There were 10,085 Patient Visits and an agency income of $927,048
  • August 1996 - Construction and renovation of Eureka site.
  • 1996  Discontinued doing in-house tubal ligations due to low patient volume.
  • January 1997 – Family PACT funding began in California
  • November 1997 - Began offering vasectomy services at the Eureka clinic.  Started a male only walk-in clinic.
  • 1997 – There were 10,172 Patient Visits and an agency income of $1,214,837
  • July 1998 – Opened Teen Clinic in McKinleyville.  BCEDP breast cancer educational outreach in Weaverville.
  • March 1998 – Opened Walk-In Medical Services for All Ages
  • 1998 –– Spare Change theater group kicks off with performances throughout Humboldt County.
  • 1998 – Experimented with Men-Only Clinic, and decided to integrate men into birth control clinics due to low patient volume.
  • 1998 – Began offering Lunelle contraceptive injections
  • 1999 – Began offering colposcopy services.
  • 1999 – Discontinued McKinleyville Teens Only Clinic due to low patient volume.
  • 1999 – Began offering RN Clinics for birth control services.
  • 2000 – Began offering T.R.I.P.P. (Teens Responsible in Pregnancy Prevention) services (one-on-one case management, educational groups, and clinic services) funded by TRP Grant from Title X.
  • 2000 – Began offering HOPE (Hormones Optional Physical Exam)
  • July 2000 – Began using Health Pro Solutions Practice Management System
  • September 2000 – Began offering Counseling Services with MFT Student.
  • 2000 – There were 13,329 Patient Visits and an agency income of $1,776,660.
  • December 2001 – TRIPP program discontinued by Title X.
  • January 2002 – Began Medical Outreach program, Takin’ It To The Streets was funded by Youth Health Initiative of Title X.
  • May 2002 Discontinued Counseling Program as MFT Student graduated.
  • May 2002 – Implemented sonograms and Medication Abortion services.
  • 2002 – Began a Capital Campaign to build a larger medical and health education center.
  • 2002 – Began offering NuvaRing and Evra Patch contraception.
  • July 2003 – Began offering colposcopy in Weaverville Clinic.
  • 2003 – There were 16,625 Patient Visits and an agency income of $2,095,859
  • March 2004 – Expanded Weaverville Clinic Hours to a second day.
  • May 2004 – Discontinued Hayfork Clinic due to low patient volume.
  • December 2004 – Discontinued Walk-In Clinic model of services, began offering Same-Day appointments.
  • October 2005 – Began offering FemCap contraception.
  • 2006 – Reached our $2.3 million Capital Campaign goal and began construction on our new clinic and education facility.
  • 2006 – Moved to a new clinic site in Weaverville after existing site was flood damaged.
  • October 2006 – moved into new digs, 3225 Timber Fall Court in Eureka. 
  • December 2006 – Weaverville site damaged by car, closed for repair and re-opened in January 2007.
  • July 2007 – Began offering rapid HIV testing which brings more men into the clinic.
  • July 2007 – Began expansion of abortion, colposcopy, vasectomy clinics.
  • December 2007- Our esteemed CEO, Tina Mackenzie, retires after a glorious run of 15 years.

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