Press Releases

Advocates wore Hawaiian shirts to draw attention to legislators’ support for a Medical Tourism bill but not health care expansion

June 3, 2014 • Florida

Broward County School Board, Planned Parenthood, youth, and parents pushed for comprehensive sex education

May 22, 2014 • Florida

(WEST PALM BEACH) – Planned Parenthood of Greater Miami, Palm Beach and Treasure Coast today announced its official name change to Planned Parenthood of South Florida and the Treasure Coast. The announcement follows Planned Parenthood Federation of America’s recent decision to expand the service area of the local affiliate to include Broward and Southern Palm Beach. In order to serve the new area, the affiliate also announced plans to open a new health center in Boca Raton.

May 19, 2014 • Florida

West Palm Beach - Planned Parenthood of South Florida and the Treasure Coast received a 4-star rating from Charity Navigator, America's largest independent charity evaluator for the sixth consecutive year.

May 19, 2014 • Florida

(Miami)— They are parents, they are community members and they are now sexual health educators. On Saturday, November 15th 14 participants of Planned Parenthood of South Florida and the Treasure Coast’s Adult Role Models (ARMs) program celebrated their graduation at Ministerio Internacional El Rey Jesús Church in Homestead.

May 19, 2014 • Florida

(Miami)—Rabbi Judith Siegal of Temple Judea in Coral Gables has joined the Board of Directors of Planned Parenthood of South Florida and the Treasure Coast.

May 19, 2014 • Florida

West Palm Beach – For today’s teens, it can be a dangerous world. Popular culture can give them the wrong facts and influences. And not all families have open, healthy communication about sex. Not knowing the facts about sex not only puts them at risk of pregnancy, but also diseases that threaten their health, and puts their education and futures at risk. World AIDS Day (December 1, 2008) is an opportunity for parents and teachers to have a conversation with teens that can save their lives.

May 19, 2014 • Florida

Planned Parenthood’s Miami Interfaith Council is deeply concerned that the Department of Health and Human Services finalized the federal refusal regulation which will limit a woman’s access to birth control and the information she needs to manage her own health care.

May 19, 2014 • Florida

West Palm Beach, Florida – This week, the Healthy Teens Campaign and the Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States (SIECUS), released a report outlining the status of sexual health and sex education in Florida. The report, Sex Education in the Sunshine State: How Abstinence-Only-Until-Marriage Programs Are Keeping Florida’s Youth in the Dark, found that young people in Florida are currently experiencing some of the worst sexual health outcomes in the country and yet, are also subjected to ineffective abstinence-only-until-marriage programs more than youth in any other state with the exception of Texas.

May 19, 2014 • Florida