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Greetings,
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Planned Parenthood Greater
Memphis
Region
"Outreach" Spring
Newsletter!
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PPGMR's Health Educators Bring
Medically-Accurate Sexuality
Information
to Memphis City
Schools
Improving access to medically accurate sexuality education is
one of Planned Parenthood Greater Memphis Region's most
important goals. New outreach activities and partnerships are
helping us meet that goal.
On February 16, 2009, PPGMR
held a 3-hour training session for Memphis City Schools nurses
commissioned by Superintendent Kriner Cash and Memphis City
Schools Administration.
It was a first step in developing a
collaborative partnership that will ultimately benefit Memphis's
110,000 city school students.
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Vox Summit Brings Together Campus
Leaders from 3 States!
PPGMR collaborated with Planned Parenthood Middle and East
Tennessee (PPMET) to organize a Vox (Voices of Planned
Parenthood) Summit April 3-5, 2009 at the University of
Tennessee in Knoxville.
Click here to
read complete story.
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National Women's
Health Week
Planned Parenthood Greater
Memphis Region partnered with the U.S. Department of Health and
Human Services to promote the 10th annual
National Women's Health Week, May 10-16,
2009. PPGMR offered a number of free services
during the week to benefit women who might not otherwise
have access to reproductive health care.
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PPGMR Goes To Nashville!
On April 7, 2009, 22 supporters, board members and
employees of Planned Parenthood Greater Memphis Region boarded a
chartered bus and headed to the state capitol in
Nashville.
They met with representatives and senators from
West Tennessee, Memphis and Shelby County.
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To find your legislators,
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Oppose the Constitutional Amendment to
Ban Abortion in Tenneessee
On May 18, 2009, the Tennessee General Assembly
passed Senate Joint Resolution 127. SJR 127 is a dangerous and
deceptive measure to amend Tennessee's Constitution. It could
eliminate a woman's right to abortion with no exception for
women who are victims of rape, incest or whose pregnancies
endanger their health.
Click here to find out more.
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Benefit Performance of Eve
Ensler's "The Vagina Monologues" is a Sell-Out
PPGMR's Director of Development Shoshana Creech
and Nurse Practioner Leah Smith were among the cast of a
sold-out benefit performance of The Vagina Monologues
at the Circuit Playhouse on March 18, 2009.
The Obie-Award
winning show is based on interviews with more than 200 women
about the memories and experiences of sexuality.
This
particular performance of The Vagina Monologues is unique in
that it included a performance written especially for
transgender women, read by Darlene Fike, who is herself a
transgender woman. This was the first time that particular
monologue has ever been performed in Memphis.
Click here to watch a video clip!
Clockwise from left: Shoshana Creech, Darlene
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PPGMR's Social Media
Outreach
Twitter is the hottest new social media
sensation! And now PPGMR is using Twitter to communicate with
patients, volunteers and supporters.
Twitter is a free
social networking service that allows its users to send and read
other users' updates known as "tweets."
If you
would like to receive our "tweets," sign up for a free
Twitter account at www.twitter.com, click on
"Find People" and type in PPGMR. It's fun, informative and
free!
If you already Twitter, just click on the bird
below!
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Support preventive and
reproductive health care for everyone
regardless of
income!
More about PPGMR's
mission
Click here
to donate to PPGMR. Your donation will
only benefit families right here in the
Mid-South!
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