Planned Parenthood

HBCU ORGANIZING
TOOLKIT

Table of Contents
About Us  2 Building a GenAction Chapter at an HBCU10

What We Value 3 What is an HBCU 10

Our Vision 3 Identifying Student Leaders & Chapter Advisors 10

The HBCU Program 3 Tactics to Overcome Barriers 11

Reproductive Justice4 Engaging Other Identities on Campus 13

Planned Parenthood History6 Annual Peaks Calendar16

Reproductive Health Among Champion of Reproductive Health Award17

College-Aged Students8
About Us
Planned Parenthood Federation
of America
Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA)
is the national umbrella organization for Planned
Parenthood affiliates, the nation’s leading providers
and advocates of high-quality, affordable health
care for women, men, and young people, as well
as the nation’s largest providers of sex education.
With approximately 600 health centers across the
country, Planned Parenthood affiliates serve all
patients with care and compassion, with respect
and without judgment. Through health centers,
programs in schools and communities, and online
resources, Planned Parenthood is a trusted source
of reliable health information that allows people to
make informed health decisions.
Together with a staff of experts in medicine, sexual
health, advocacy, communications, and law, these
leaders offer a strong vision and common sense
solutions designed to protect adults’ and teens’ health
and safety while maintaining our basic human rights.
Planned Parenthood Action Fund
The Planned Parenthood Action Fund and local
advocacy organizations are social welfare organizations,
also known as “501(c)(4) organizations” or “c4s.”
Planned Parenthood c4s largely focus on the same
things as c3s — education, advocacy and lobbying
on issues related to reproductive health. The main
difference between Planned Parenthood c3s and c4s
are that the c4s don’t provide health care, but they
can do unlimited lobbying, and are allowed to do
some electoral work. That means they can encourage
people to vote pro-reproductive health and even to
vote for certain politicians, but that work is a small
fraction of their overall program, and is subject to
other rules.
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Planned Parenthood
Generation Action
Planned Parenthood Generation Action (PPGenAction)
is a movement of young people across identities and
issues that organizes with, by, and for their generation
in order to achieve reproductive freedom; led by the
national Youth Organizing Team (the “Youth Squad”) at
Planned Parenthood Action Fund which leverages their
expertise in youth organizing, leadership development,
voter engagement programs, and infrastructure
building to motivate, empower, train, and provide
resources to support young people, affiliates, and
partners in building power nationally.
To ensure that young people’s lives are at the center
of our movement, our key priorities are: inclusivity,
fighting abortion stigma, trans inclusion, elections,
and movement and power building.
Planned Parenthood
Black Organizing Program
We deeply engage the Black community to realize Planned
Parenthood’s mission of Care No Matter What. Black
people make up 16 percent of Planned Parenthood’s
annual patient population, over 395,000 patients or one-
sixth of our patient base. We ensure that Black voices
are being heard and seen in every facet of our work. The
goal of Planned Parenthood’s Black Organizing Program
is to develop a strong, integrated volunteer infrastructure
among Black communities that shifts political power in this
moment while meeting urgent needs for communities.
Tactics include collaborative organizing in elections,
federal fights, building capacity, and people power.
Driving Theory of Change: We will support and uplift
the political and social power of Black communities
through advocacy and organizing, education, and
resource distribution. In turn, we will build an equitable,
sustainable and inclusive movement that: centers those
who are most affected; protects and expands avenues for
access to care; and attains reproductive freedom for all.
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What We Value Our Vision

We are inclusive of all genders, a diverse range of
backgrounds, and communities impacted by reproductive
health injustices. We advocate for Planned Parenthood
health centers to provide crucial health services,
including abortion, to all people. We encourage our
communities to practice positive and proactive political
actions by participating in the democratic process at
the local, state, and federal levels. We develop young
leaders to build across movements, identities, and
issues to harness our collective power and effect change
in our communities more effectively.
The reproductive rights movement is led by the largest
and most diverse generation of young people — actively
shaping a world where full access to reproductive health
care, including abortion, is a lived reality for all.
To view the full PP Generation Action Toolkit please contact
your local organizer. Contact youth.squad@ppfa.org to
receive the most up to date version of the toolkit.

The HBCU Program

Since their inception, Historically Black Colleges & Universities have served as a pillar of hope, excellence, and pride
for the Black community. Planned Parenthood’s Historically Black College & University Program provides an authentic
pathway that centers the lived experiences of the student body. Our goal is to build a network of passionate leaders
who are committed to reproductive freedom for all. We partner with Planned Parenthood affiliates to provide
resources and support and organize best practices for students to lead local advocacy initiatives on reproductive
health care, social justice, and political engagement. We equip students with the tools to empower themselves,
create tangible change on campus, and educate their communities.

The HBCU Program is a partnership between Planned Parenthood Generation Action and Planned Parenthood’s
Black Organizing Program.

HBCU Regions

Existing PP HBCU Program Chapters

States with HBCUs

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Reproductive Justice
The fight for reproductive freedom is intimately connected to economic justice, civil rights, LGBTQ equality, and
immigration reform, among other battles. While Planned Parenthood is not a reproductive justice organization, we
recognize that we have a responsibility to honor the history and contributions of reproductive justice leaders and
apply a reproductive justice frame to our work.

Defining Reproductive Justice Defining Intersectionality

SisterSong, the national women of color justice
collective, defines Reproductive Justice as the human
right to maintain personal bodily autonomy, have
children, not have children, and parent the children we
have in safe and sustainable communities. Reproductive
justice will be achieved when all people have the social,
political, and economic power and resources to make
healthy decisions about their gender, bodies, sexuality,
and families for themselves and their communities.
Reproductive justice is a framework to transform power
inequities and create long-term systemic change, and
therefore relies on the leadership of communities hit
hardest by reproductive oppression. Reproductive
justice recognizes that all individuals are part of families
and communities and that our strategies must lift up
entire communities to support individuals.
For us to live in that world where all folks have the right
and access to the health care they deserve and need,
we must approach all facets of our work through an
intersectional lens.
The term intersectionality was coined by Kimberlé
Crenshaw, a Black civil rights activist and legal scholar.
Intersectionality can be defined as the interconnected
nature of identities (such as race, class, and gender)
creating interdependent systems of oppression.
Intersectionality acknowledges that markers of one’s
identity (e.g. “female” and “black”) do not exist in a
vacuum — each informs the others. Beyond the academic
term, intersectionality is a lived experience and a
way to think about identity and its relation to power.

People have been doing the work of reproductive

justice throughout our movement’s history. However,
the term reproductive justice was first coined in 1994.

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Core Elements of Working alongside the RJ community
Reproductive Justice requires action:

• Rooted in a human rights framework. • Show up in solidarity with our social

movement partners.
• Intersectional: examines how multiple systems of
oppression come to bear on an issue and the impact • Embrace feedback and criticism as we continue
on multiple targeted communities. to grow.

• Focused on the control and regulation of gender, • Listen to the experiences of communities
body, sexuality, and families. most marginalized.

• Works towards social change at individual, community, • Educate ourselves.

institutional, and societal levels, recognizing that
work at all levels has to happen at the same time. • Share resources and power.

• Strengthens and is accountable to the leadership of

communities most affected.
Follow some of our RJ partners on Instagram
• Links individuals to community. to keep up with the work they are doing!

• Creates systemic change that has a transformative Sister Song: @sistersong_woc

impact on the lives of people by changing the nature
of power in our communities. URGE: @urge_org

Again, Planned Parenthood is a reproductive health National Network of Abortion Funds: @abortionfunds
and rights organization — not a Reproductive Justice
organization. But it is our role to be an ally to the SPARK: @sparkrjnow
reproductive justice community.

“The concept of Reproductive Justice began to take shape when members of a

women of color delegation returned from the 1994 International Conference on
Population and Development in Cairo, Egypt. Shortly after, a group of African
American women caucused at the Illinois Pro-Choice Alliance Conference in Chicago.
The group became known as Women of African Descent for Reproductive Justice.
They decided to devise a strategy to challenge the proposed healthcare reform
campaign by the Clinton Administration that did not include guaranteeing access
to abortion. Not wanting to use the language of ‘choice’ because they represented
communities with few real choices, they integrated the concepts of reproductive
rights, social justice and human rights to launch the term ‘Reproductive Justice.’
Their signature ad in the Washington Post debuted the term reproductive justice
in 1994.”
— Loretta Ross, A History of Reproductive Justice
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Planned Parenthood History
Didn’t Margaret Sanger support
“Black genocide?”
• No. This is not true. In fact, PolitiFact gave this claim
its worst rating — “Pants on Fire” and ReWire’s Imani
Gandy wrote an exhaustive piece debunking the false
narratives around Margaret Sanger.
• Margaret Sanger advocated for women and their
ability to decide whether and when to have children.
Her work was built on defending women’s rights and
providing access to quality reproductive health care.
• Sangers’ words have been co-opted by anti-
reproductive rights forces to create the false
narrative that Planned Parenthood contributes
to “Black genocide.” Providing access to
contraceptives — which Sanger and many Black
leaders supported — is not a form of genocide.
• It is unconscionable to use racial oppression to
push policies that would block Black people from
exercising their reproductive rights.
Wasn’t Margaret Sanger involved with
the American eugenics movement?
• Margaret Sanger was a eugenicist — she did not
support Black genocide. Sanger did support stifling
population growth through sterilization of people
who were mentally ill or physically disabled, but she
openly opposed applying eugenic ideals based on
race or ethnicity. That is despicable. Any form of
eugenics is hateful, unjust, and does not belong in
the reproductive health and rights movement.
• Sanger’s goal was to ensure that all women had
access to contraceptives so that they could decide
when to have a child and her efforts extended to the
Black community — In 1930 she opened a health clinic
in Harlem that was staffed by a Black physician and a
Black social worker to provide safe birth control.
• The clinic was supported by Black leaders like W.E.B
Du Bois; Mary McLeod Bethune — the founder of the
National Council of Negro Women — and later by
Malcolm X. It was also endorsed by the city’s leading
Black newspaper, The Amsterdam News, and by the
Abyssinian Baptist Church and the Urban League.
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What about the Negro Project?
• In 1939, Sanger, under the newly merged Birth
Control Federation of America, formed The Negro
Project with the support of Black community leaders
who made up an advisory committee, and previously
supported her efforts in Harlem. Sanger intended for
the Negro Project to help Black people have better
access to safe contraception and to maintain birth
control services in their community through the help
of Black clinicians and clergy.
• The Negro Project was co-opted by the white,
racist, male leadership of the Birth Control
Federation of America and became something
very different from Sanger’s vision, which was
to ensure that Black communities supported the
health clinics in their neighborhoods.
• Under the direction of the Birth Control Federation
of America and Dr. Robert Seibels, the chairman of
the Committee on Maternal Welfare of the South
Carolina Medical Association, the project’s approach
to dispensing contraceptives was indifferent to the
needs of the community, paternalistic, and racist.
Does Planned Parenthood defend or reject
Margaret Sanger and her legacy?
• Planned Parenthood was founded on the belief
that a person’s ability to plan for their futures is
fundamental to their ability to access opportunities —
and that still holds true today. The fact is, Margaret
Sanger did hold eugenics beliefs that we denounce,
and no person with those views should be hailed as
a leader in any movement.
• This history of Planned Parenthood is about more
than one woman, and we do not hold her up as the
sole early crusader for reproductive rights. Margaret
Sanger did this work alongside others — too many of
whom were not, and continue to not be, recognized.
• That’s why, as an organization, we have been
intentional in our efforts to address our history
more accurately — such as renaming the Margaret
Sanger awards and being transparent about how
we are reconciling our history.
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 • Planned Parenthood denounces hate and bigotry
in all forms. We are committed to health equity
for all communities as we continue to grow, and
learn. We stand in opposition to racism and are
proud to serve all people with high-quality health
care, regardless of race, gender, identity, sexual
orientation, or immigration status.
Does Planned Parenthood build the
majority of its abortion centers in
Black neighborhoods?
• No. A study on the misleading claim that most
abortion clinics are located in predominantly Black
or Hispanic neighborhoods was published in 2014
by the Guttmacher Institute.
• The report notes one in 10 abortion clinics are located in
predominantly Black neighborhoods. Currently, six in
ten abortion providers are located in neighborhoods
where the population is majority white.
• As of January 2020, 57% of Planned Parenthood
health centers were located in areas with a shortage of
health professional, rural, or medically underserved
areas. Only about four percent of Planned Parenthood
health centers that provide abortion services are
located in communities where more than one-third
of the population is Black.
• Our health centers serve over 395,000 Black patients
each year. At Planned Parenthood, we trust Black
women, and all people, to make their own decisions
about their bodies and their pregnancies, because
we know that the freedom to plan your future —
including if and when to have children — is key to
everyone’s success.
• We are proud to see patients regardless of
income, insurance, gender identity, sexual
orientation, disability, or immigration status.
• Planned Parenthood is committed to health equity
for Black communities across the country for
healthy, safe, and empowered lives — and we’re
dedicated to ensuring that as many people as
possible have access to high-quality, affordable
sexual and reproductive health care.
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Q: Why are there high rates of abortion
among Black women?
• Nearly one in four women will have an abortion in
her lifetime. And Black women are over two and
half times more likely to need an abortion than
non-Hispanic white women. High rates of abortion
are often related to poverty, as well as racial and
economic bias in health care.
• Black women face multiple, systemic barriers to
quality, affordable health care — a lack of access to
family planning information and contraception can
lead to higher rates of both unintended pregnancy
and abortion. Abortion is health care. It is a common
experience that should not be shamed, judged, or
seen as a right for specific communities.
• Historically, Black communities have not had the
legal right to control their own bodies, and thus
the power to decide their own futures. Today, even
with Roe, abortion restrictions impact Black people
more than other groups due to structural barriers to
health care such as racial discrimination, economic
inequality, and lack of health insurance coverage.
• Black communities deserve access to sexual and
reproductive health care — unbiased and non-
judgmental — so they can thrive and achieve healthy
empowered lives. This includes having equitable
access to abortion.
Additional Resources:
• Rewire News: Fighting Black Anti-Choice
Campaigns: Trust Black Women
• Rewire News: How False Narratives of Margaret
Sanger Are Being Used to Shame Black Women
• Politifact: Cain claims Planned Parenthood founded
for “planned genocide”
• TIME: What Margaret Sanger Really Said About
Eugenics and Race
• Vox: “Abortion as black genocide”: inside the black
anti-abortion movement
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Reproductive Health Among College-Aged
Black Folks
Rates of sexually transmitted infections reached a record high in 2018. Black college-aged students are
disproportionately affected by STIs, including HIV. And STI rates are highest in southern states where the
vast majority of HBCUs are located. We need to ensure that students are equipped with the information they
need to educate their communities and protect themselves.

STI Rates Among Young Black Folks

Chlamydia

The highest rate of chlamydia incidence is in the Black community. Among Black women specifically, the rate
of chlamydia is 5 times higher than for non-Hispanic white women.

• Among Black female adolescents from ages 10-19, the reported cases of chlamydia are 4.5 times higher
than non-Hispanic white female adolescents and women of the same age group.

• Among Black women ages 20-24, the reported cases of chlamydia are 3.6 times the rate of white women of
the same age group.

• Among Black men, the rates of chlamydia are 8.9 times the rate of white men of the same age group, 15-19,
and 5 times the rate in age groups, 20-24.

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 Gonorrhea

The highest rate of gonorrhea incidence is in the Black community. Among Black women specifically, the rate of
gonorrhea is 6.9 times higher than for non-Hispanic white women.

• Among Black female adolescents from ages 10-19, the reported cases of gonorrhea are 9.3 times higher
than non-Hispanic white female adolescents and women of the same age group.

• Among Black women ages 20-24, the reported cases of gonorrhea are 7.4 times the rate of white women
of the same age group.

• Among Black men ages 20-24, the reported cases of gonorrhea are 9.3 times higher than non-Hispanic
white men of the same age group.

• Among Black men ages 25-29, the reported cases of gonorrhea are 7.3 times higher than non-Hispanic
white men of the same age group.

Primary & Secondary Syphilis

The highest reported rates of primary & secondary syphilis incidence are in the Black community, with 33.7% of
reported cases in 2017 occurring among Black individuals. Among Black women specifically, the rate of primary &
secondary syphilis is 5.2 times higher than for non-Hispanic white women.* *Age breakdown not available

HIV/AIDS

• Black women constitute the largest proportion of new HIV cases (58% in 2018), with transmission occurring
largely from vaginal intercourse.

• The rate of Black women with a new diagnosis of HIV is 14 times the rate of non-Hispanic white women.

• Regionally, 63% of new diagnoses in the Black population are concentrated in the Southern U.S., with the
ten states with the highest populations of Black individuals accounting for 67% of all HIV cases nationally.

STIs

• Syphilis cases have more than doubled between 2000 and 2013, with 75 percent of this increase occurring
in men having sex with men (MSM).

• *Black trans folks are disproportionately diagnosed with HIV in comparison to Latinx and White trans folks.

• MSM make up for more than half of all new HIV cases each year.

• MSM account for the majority of new syphilis and gonorrhea cases.

* Trans and gender nonconforming people have not been well studied. All stats are from data reported by the Centers for Disease Control.

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Building a GenAction Chapter at an HBCU

What is an HBCU?

The Higher Education Act of 1965, as amended, defines an HBCU as: “…any historically Black college or university
that was established prior to 1964, whose principal mission was, and is, the education of Black Americans...” We know
it to be so much more than that. HBCUs are pillars of pride, strength, and hope. HBCUs produce 25% of all of Black
graduates with science, technology, engineering and mathematics degrees. HBCU graduates thrive. A 2015 survey
conducted by Gallup-Purdue University, notes 55% of Black students who graduated from an HBCUs reported that
the school prepared them for life, as compared with 30% of Black students who attended predominantly white
colleges. HBCUs are a home away from home and provide an experience like no other.

Identifying Student Leaders and Chapter Advisors
When you are looking to start a new chapter on a campus,
the first thing you want to do is build relationships and
trust with faculty and staff. One great place to start is the
campus health center — learn about their services, and
find out if we can help fill any gaps through a partnership
with a local PP health center.
Once you have built those relationships, you can identify
student leaders: Reach out to professors and ask to use
the first five minutes of class time to share the opportunity
with students; table in a high-traffic location on campus
or in the free-speech zone; and take advantage of some
planned events that will bring the people to you. Sign
up for a vendor table at homecoming or rent a float in
the parade, host a Shop Chat (see below) in partnership
with a professor, or connect with a progressive campus
organization on campus and ask about co-hosting an
event. Lastly, one very successful way that folks have been
able to find their student leaders is by hiring interns from
their local campus. There are lots great ways to recruit
student leaders. Get creative and get out there!
Finding a chapter advisor, like much of this work, begins
with relationships. Consider professors you know from
doing class raps and recruiting student leaders. Other
progressive organizations on campus can connect you to
their chapter advisor. Ask them to introduce you to other
professors who might serve in this role. Depending on your
campus, identifying a chapter advisor could take some
time. But don’t be discouraged — conservative schools
have been able to find a chapter advisor to act as sponsor.
Once you’ve recruited some leaders and identified a
chapter advisor, it’s time to get into the administrative tasks
of starting your chapter. In addition to registering your
chapter as an official student organization through the
university processes, ensure that your new chapter has been
added to the Action Council Hub (ppact.io/actionhub). Refer
the GenAction toolkit for more information on constitutions,
chapter structure, team roles, and tiers of engagement.

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Shop Chats on Campuses
Let’s talk Shop Chats: a gathering at a Black-owned business
that invites the Black community to learn and discuss topics
on sexual reproductive health care and how such care — or
lack thereof — impacts their communities. Check out the
Shop Chats Toolkit here to plan the event on your campus.
Homecoming
Homecoming is a special opportunity to reach HBCU
alumni, staff, and members of surrounding communities.
Overcoming Barriers
Abortion Stigma
Black women often feel shame and trauma about their
decision to have an abortion. To reduce abortion stigma,
we must normalize discussions of sex and abortion in
our communities.
Tactic: Partner with campus organizations
• We encourage you to partner with other campus
organizations and or Greek letter organizations to
host open and honest conversations about abortion
in the Black community, dispel myths about abortion,
and explore ways in which we can increase access to
comprehensive sex education.
Campus Administration
Like other universities, the administrations at HBCUs
aren’t always responsive to a GenAction chapter on
campus. In this case, our best practice is to powermap.
Tactic: Powermap
• Think about who the decision maker is and who
are the people with power that will support your
work. Build a relationship with those people and
find out what it will take to get your chapter officially
recognized by your university.
Tactic: Keep partnering with other
campus organizations!
• In some cases the administration may be too hostile
to recognize your group. A great work around is to
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We encourage affiliates to register for a table and
engage participants by:
• Demystifying Planned Parenthood in the Black
community with open & honest conversations
• Sharing information about the local health center &
services available
• Signing up new Action Fund members & supporters
• Helping folks register to vote or update their registration
partner with other campus organizations. Think about
what topics the Greek letter organizations, LGBTQ+
orgs, and/or NAACP chapters on your campus are
interested in and pitch them the opportunity to partner.
In addition, build intentional relationships with those
orgs and others on your campus to ensure that you
have partners to book tables and rooms for you.
Opposition Organizations On Campus
On and off college campuses we must coexist with
opposition groups whose beliefs don’t align with our own.
While it can be incredibly disheartening to see these groups
in our communities, we must stay true to our mission.
Tactic: Do Not Engage with Opposition
• If you ever encounter an opposition group protesting
on campus or disseminating false information, do
not engage. Our role in the community is to always
provide a safe space and accurate information to
patients and supporters.
Non-Engagement Policy
• Strictly avoid engaging in conversation and or any verbal
exchange with protesters. This includes instructing them
about what they can or cannot do. It is of the utmost
importance that we do not contribute to volatility
and that it is absolutely clear to law enforcement and
campus administration that the behavior of individuals
associated with us is calm and above reproach.
• Tell a campus administrator and your local organizer
if you see activity you believe is illegal or unsafe.
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 Note that it is not illegal for protesters to photograph
patients, staff, or volunteers.
• Avoid being in physical proximity with protesters.
• Let your organizer know right away if you have any
kind of encounter with a protester.
Crisis Pregnancy Centers
Crisis Pregnancy Centers (CPCs) use unethical tactics to
spread biased, limited, and inaccurate information about
health care. CPCs particularly target young people, people
of color, and those with low incomes. They are often found
on college campuses distributing inaccurate information
about sex, sexually transmitted diseases, and abortion.
Similar to opposition organizations and protesters, we do
not engage with Crisis Pregnancy Centers.
Tactic: Provide Accurate Information
• If there is a center that comes onto your campus
regularly, consider including accurate information
to dispel their myths while you are tabling. Ensure
that people know where they can go for safe non-
judgmental health care and share the facts about
practicing safe and consensual sex.
• Many CPCs are publicly funded, which structurally
reinforces poor sexual and reproductive health
outcomes for communities of color. While tabling,
you can lift up that two of the leading adolescent
health medical societies, The Society for Adolescent
Health and Medicine and the North American
Society for Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology,
released a new policy paper in October 2019 that
highlights the risk to younger people when crisis
“There is no such thing as a single-
issue struggle because we do not
live single-issue lives.”
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pregnancy centers (CPCs) spread misinformation
and engage in unethical practices.
Tactic: Challenge the University to Protect the Campus
• In 2019, the Generation Action chapters at Florida
Atlantic University and Florida State University led a
campus campaign to address the issue of CPCs on their
campuses. They created an educational presentation
about CPCs and partnered with resident advisors to
show it in different dorms. In addition, they collected
petition signatures to enact a campus law that sends
a warning text to the entire campus when anti-abortion
propaganda is displayed on university grounds.
Lack of Information On Health Center Services
Tactic: Run An Education Campaign
• This is something especially helpful for chapters that
are just getting started. Here are 3 things you can do to
increase awareness and education of our health centers.
• Connect with your local affiliate and ensure that you
have the right information and resources, like a palm
card, to share when you’re tabling.
• Think about using your social media to share more
information about health center services, hours of
operation, and locations.
• Work with your local organizer and reach out to
the campus health center. Very often, university
health centers are understaffed and have limited
availability. Connect with them about including
pamphlets about the local Planned Parenthood in
the lobby and maybe even on the website.
— Audre Lorde
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Engaging Other Identities on Campus

To continue to grow the movement and our volunteer base, we must be intentional about engaging with others
whose identities exist along the margins and partnering on the issues that are impacting their day-to-day lives. Below
you will find Planned Parenthood’s stance on a number of cross-movement issues. While we realize that this is not an
exhaustive list, it is a great place to start when thinking about how to ensure that your GenAction chapter is being a
great partner to other progressive organizations on campus.

Gun Violence

The epidemic of gun violence directly affects many immigrant communities and communities of color who are
targeted by racist violence — communities that Planned Parenthood health centers serve. Planned Parenthood is
committed to fighting alongside all who work to stop gun violence for safer, healthier lives.

Partners:

• Community Justice Action Fund • Everytown For Gun Safety • Brady United Against
Gun Violence
• March For Our Lives • Giffords: Courage to Fight
Gun Violence

LGBTQIA+ Rights

Planned Parenthood believes everyone deserves high-quality, compassionate health care that’s appropriate for their
needs and concerns — no matter your gender identity or sexual orientation. We are proud to provide education,
support, and sexual and reproductive health services for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, questioning, and
intersex patients at safe and welcoming health centers.

Partners:

• Human Rights Campaign • National Center for Lesbian Rights • GLAAD

• The National LGBTQ Task Force • National Center for • GLSEN

Transgender Equality

Racial Justice

Planned Parenthood strongly opposes racism and is committed to working with communities and partners to address
the structural racism that impacts Black people’s everyday lives, and prevents communities from accessing health care.
We are dedicated to achieving health equity for Black communities for healthy, safe, and empowered lives — and we
know that it cannot be achieved without addressing racial justice.

Partners:

• Black Youth Project • Race Forward • National Urban League

• Black Lives Matter • National Action Network • NAACP

• Color of Change • Advancement Project • Leadership Conference on Civil

and Human Rights

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Economic Justice

Planned Parenthood believes in economic security for all individuals and families and supports everyone in their
efforts to adequately care for themselves and their families. Everyone deserves access to basic living standards
through financial, housing, food, health, and nutrition assistance, as well as inclusive, responsible, and sustainable
paid family and medical leave.

Partners:

• Family Values @ Work Network • National Center for Law and • Community Change
Economic Justice
• National Domestic • MomsRising
Workers Alliance • Jobs with Justice

Education Justice

Planned Parenthood is committed to destigmatizing sex education and dismantling barriers to health care and
information for Black communities. We provide sex education that is inclusive, medically accurate, and culturally
relevant to the communities served, reaching over 270,000 Black people through our education programs in 2018
alone. Planned Parenthood also brings sex education programs to places like foster care and criminal justice facilities
to help ensure that the most vulnerable and marginalized young people have access to quality sex education.

Partners:

• Leadership Conference • Black Girls Vote • National Women’s Law Center

Sexual Assault

At Planned Parenthood, we believe and support survivors. Our fight for reproductive rights and health is built on the
belief that all people deserve bodily autonomy — which includes a freedom from sexual assault, misconduct, and
violence. We offer vital sexual and reproductive health care services and resources in a safe and nonjudgmental
environment, and we advocate for policies that support survivors.

Partners:

• Girls for Gender Equity • National Women’s Law Center • Time’s UP

• Know Your IX • Me Too

Immigration

Planned Parenthood is committed to standing with immigrant communities and improving sexual and reproductive
health among immigrants by fighting for their health and civil rights. We will not stand by and allow immigrant and
refugee families to be stripped of their health and rights or be separated from their families. We are proud that
Planned Parenthood health centers serve patients regardless of immigration status and we strive to ensure our
patients feel safe walking through our doors knowing that their privacy is protected.

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Partners:

• United We Dream • Fair Immigration Reform • UndocuBlack Network

Movement (FIRM)
• Black Alliance for Justice • National Korean American
Immigration (BAJI) • National Immigration Law Service & Education
Center (NILC) Consortium (NAKASEC)

Voting Rights

Planned Parenthood is committed to fighting for justice for every person, and to empowering everyone to participate
fully in their communities and have an equal voice in the democratic process. We continue to join voting rights advocates
in condemning voter suppression and standing against the discriminatory tactics that are systematically used to target
communities of color and young people — like voter ID laws, racially discriminatory districts, or limits on early voting.

Partners:

• The Leadership Conference on • NAACP Legal Defense and • Brennan Center for Justice
Civil and Human Rights Educational Fund
• Fair Vote
• Lawyers’ Committee for Civil • Mexican American Legal Defense
Rights Under Law and Educational Fund • Common Cause

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Annual Peaks Calendar

Women’s History Month

Roe v. Wade Anniversary Graduation
GenAction Birthday
Celebration

February April June

January March May

Black History Month Sexual Assault

Awareness Month
National Condom Week
Get Yourself Tested
National Black HIV/AIDS Month
Awareness Day
Denim Day
Black Organizing
Program Birthday
Celebration

National Voter
Registration Day
HBCU Summit
Congressional Black Election Day
Minority Mental Health Caucus Foundation
Awareness Month Annual Conference Thanks, Birth Control Day

Hispanic Heritage Month

August October December

July September November

Back to School Homecoming Season World AIDS Day

Hispanic Heritage Month Graduation

Breast Cancer
Awareness Month

The peaks calendar is updated on a rolling basis. Please keep an eye out for the GenAction Back to School Memo for
the most up to date information.

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Champion of Reproductive Health Award
Each year we enjoy the privilege of celebrating community partners and reproductive justice warriors during the
CBCF Annual Legislative Conference along with members of the Congressional Black Caucus and influencers who
stand for reproductive rights as a central tenet of a fair and just world. Among those leaders are our Generation
Action chapters from Hampton University and Lincoln University.

In 2018, Hampton University was awarded for their work to bring awareness to sexual assault on campus
by creating a Title IX advisory board that brought transparency to the issue and built trust. In addition, they
passed a campus law mandating that all incoming students, including transfer students, take a comprehensive sex ed
course before registering for classes.

In 2019, Lincoln University was awarded for their menstrual equity work. This chapter led efforts to provide free
menstrual products in all common area restrooms on campus and created over 300 period bags for those in need in
the surrounding community.

*Note that we select the winner based on self-reported information. If you would like your chapter to be recognized for their work,
please send a summary of their campaign to Monica Massamba at monica.massamba@ppfa.org.

Winners of the 2018 award, Generation Action at Hampton University, Winners of the 2019 award, Generation Action at Lincoln University,
accepted by Michyah Thomas & Aman Tune accepted by Jada Thompson & Jayla Ross

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