Coloradans for Birth Control (CO4BC)

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A nonprofit fundraiser supporting

Global Health Foundation

Coloradans support our right to freely plan our families by removing barriers for women to access - and medical professionals to provide - a

$22,475

raised by 46 people

$100,000 goal

Sign up to learn more about a Coloradans for Birth Control which is a statewide network committed to ensuring women can freely plan their families through access to birth control education and services:
http://bit.ly/2mA1c1I

Global Health Foundation (GHF) is a founding partner of the Colorado Collaborative on Family Planning and Reproductive Health which has developed a statewide strategy to expand access to affordable birth control methods and family planning services.

Since 2009 an increased investment in affordable birth control methods and family planning services has led to astonishing results in Colorado including:
• 54% drop in the teen birth rate,
• 63% decrease in teen abortion rate, and
• $66M+ in avoided public health related costs. [Source: CDPHE]

And what matters most are the thousands of girls and women (and their partners), represented by these numbers, who avoided an unintended pregnancy that could have delayed or derailed their educational, career, family and/or life goals.

What is at Risk: More than 325,000 women in Colorado are in need of publicly funded birth control methods and family planning services. And recent federal policy changes and proposals threaten their ability to access and afford those services including:

• Birth Control Mandate Rollback: 30,000 women in Colorado are at risk for losing contraceptive coverage in insurance provided through their employer,

• Community Health Centers (CHC): 20 CHCs with 100+ clinical sites in 61 of the 64 counties serving 700,000 Coloradans face a 70% reduction in program funding,

• Eliminate Title X Funding: Title X is the only federal grant program dedicated to providing the full range of birth control methods and related preventive care. 55,000 Coloradans receive family planning services from 69 clinics funded by Title X , and

• Reverse Medicaid Expansion: funding that provided women's health services to 100,000+ women is under threat by the ACA repeal efforts and budget negotiations.

GHF launched Coloradans for Birth Control (CO4BC), a pooled and rapid response fund, to support a woman's right to freely plan her family (when, how many or whether to have children) by removing barriers for Coloradans to access - and medical professionals to provide - affordable birth control methods and family planning services.

2018 Grantmaking Program Priorities:

1. Technology (Public Education): to link Coloradans to reproductive health resources and to connect them with desired healthcare services (Beforeplay.org).
Goal: $160,000

2. Training: to ensure medical professionals can counsel and provide the most effective birth control methods: IUDs and implants.
Goal: $75,000

3. Supply: to equip healthcare facilities with IUDs and implants.
Goal: $200,000

4. Transportation: to eliminate geographic proximity as a barrier to access services.
Goal: $50,000

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