During Black Maternal Health week (April 11-17), Planned Parenthood of the Pacific Southwest will host an in-person movie screening of the film Aftershock.

Read about our Riverside Outreach and Action Fund team's recent condom crawl that they hosted in February.

Every year during Valentine’s Day week, we at Planned Parenthood observe National Condom Week. This is a great time to learn more about the importance of using condoms and other barrier methods and to help educate others – because everyone deserves to have a worry-free and healthy sex life.

Everyone deserves to have a safe, healthy sex life. That's why our sex educators are leading the way to tearing down one of the biggest barriers to care: stigma. Read this article to learn what you can do to shut down the shame that is keeping people from getting STI tests and treatment they need and deserve.

One of our rock star sex ed teachers explains what it's like to talk to young people about young people about sensitive topics, answers the questions you never thought to ask, and explains why she has a guide to handling a penis on her Instagram account.

Learn more about this important observance

There can be so many barriers when it comes to accessing health care. From seeing if you’re covered by insurance, to affording co-pays and other fees, to getting the time off to go to the appointment, perhaps getting childcare, and finally even just getting there – the journey to see a health care provider can be difficult.

Enter: The Care Coordination Program.

Four Palm Desert High School students are standing up for sex ed so that their entire school can get all of the information they need to make healthy choices in their lives.