FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Wednesday, April 1, 2015
Wednesday, April 1, 2015
Contact: ASH Media Office
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The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Population Affairs today announced Title X Family Planning Program grant awards to 22 organizations in California, Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Ohio, Texas, Washington, DC, West Virginia, and Wisconsin.
Family planning services funded through the Title X program include: clinical family planning and related preventive health services; information, education, and counseling related to family planning; and referral services as indicated. Under current law, Title X funds cannot be used to provide or encourage abortion.
The HHS Office of Population Affairs oversees the Title X Family Planning Program, which funds 95 grantees that support nearly 4,200 family planning centers nationwide and serve approximately five million women and men each year. Title X grants are awarded through a competitive process to public and private not-for-profit entities. Services funded with Title X grants are provided by state and local health departments, hospitals, university health center, and nonprofit agencies.
The grant awards listed below are based on the FY 2015 budget and provide funding for the first year of the grant beginning April 1, 2015.
Grantee: California Family Health Council, Inc.
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Title X Service Area: California – East Los Angeles
Award: $470,000
Grantee: Planned Parenthood of Southern New England, Inc.
Location: New Haven, CT
Title X Service Area: State of Connecticut
Award: $2,424,000
Grantee: Delaware Health & Social Services
Location: Dover, DE
Title X Service Area: State of Delaware
Award: $1,102,000
Grantee: Aunt Martha’s Youth Service Center, Inc.
Location: Olympia Fields, IL
Title X Service Area: State of Illinois – selected counties
Award: $928,000
Grantee: Illinois Department of Public Health
Location: Springfield, IL
Title X Service Area: State of Illinois – selected counties
Award: $3,754,000
Grantee: Planned Parenthood of Illinois
Location: Chicago, IL
Title X Service Area: State of Illinois – selected counties
Award: $3,141,000
Grantee: Family Planning Association of Maine, Inc.
Location: Augusta, ME
Title X Service Area: State of Maine
Award: $1,926,000
Grantee: Action for Boston Community Development
Location: Boston, MA
Title X Service Area: State of Massachusetts – selected counties
Award: $1,638,000
Grantee: Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Department of Health
Location: Boston, MA
Title X Service Area: State of Massachusetts – selected counties
Award: $1,300,000
Grantee: Health Imperatives, Inc.
Location: Brockton, MA
Title X Service Area: State of Massachusetts – selected counties
Award: $1,170,000
Grantee: Health Quarters, Inc.
Location: Beverly, MA
Title X Service Area: State of Massachusetts – selected counties
Award: $1,075,000
Grantee: Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts, Inc.
Location: Boston, MA
Title X Service Area: State of Massachusetts – selected counties
Award: $614,000
Grantee: Ramsey County
Location: Saint Paul, MN
Title X Service Area: Ramsey County, Minnesota
Award: $540,000
Grantee: New Mexico Department of Health
Location: Santa Fe, NM
Title X Service Area: State of New Mexico
Award: $3,239,000
Grantee: Oklahoma State Department of Health
Location: Oklahoma City, OK
Title X Service Area: State of Oklahoma – selected counties
Award: $3,839,000
Grantee: Planned Parenthood of Arkansas and Eastern Oklahoma
Location: Tulsa, OK
Title X Service Area: State of Oklahoma – selected counties
Award: $517,000
Grantee: Planned Parenthood of Greater Ohio
Location: Columbus, OH
Title X Service Area: State of Ohio
Award: $1,300,000
Grantee: State of Ohio – Department of Health
Location: Columbus, OH
Title X Service Area: State of Ohio
Award: $4,422,000
Grantee: Women’s Health and Family Planning Association of Texas
Location: Austin, TX
Title X Service Area: State of Texas
Award: $13,673,000
Grantee: Unity Health Care, Inc.
Location: Washington, DC
Title X Service Area: Washington, DC
Award: $1,239,000
Grantee: West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources
Location: Charleston, WV
Title X Service Area: State of West Virginia
Award: $2,264,000
Grantee: Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin
Location: Milwaukee, WI
Title X Service Area: State of Wisconsin
Award: $3,468,000
For more information, visit: Office of Population Affairs
Media Contact: (202) 205-0143 or [email protected]
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