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May 2018
5th Annual Birds & the Bees Soirée
Get Jazzed About New Orleans at Our 5th Annual Signature Fundraising Event: The 2017 Birds and the Bees Spring Soirée Superb food and drink | Best company ever Live music | Fabulous silent auction Please invest in Maine Family Planning by making the 2018 Spring Soirée a successful fundraising event! Sponsor the Soirée | Attend the Soirée Buy a raffle ticket — Win a trip to the Big Easy! To download a sponsorship form detailing sponsorship benefits, click here. To purchase your sponsorship or…
Find out more »June 2018
4th Annual LGBTQ+ Health Conference
Hosted by the Maine Health Equity Alliance, this annual conference brings together providers and community members to learn about LGBTQ+ health disparities and build collaborative energy around their different work to address these issues across Maine. The 4th Annual conference will take place on June 29 in Bangor at Eastern Maine Community College (EMCC) and focus on advocacy for LGBTQ+ people and their healthcare. Maine Family Planning staff will present a workshop entitled Abortion as an LGBTQ+ Issue & Right. This session will explore…
Find out more »September 2018
Portland Fighting Forward Abortion Advocacy Training
To commemorate 45 years of Roe v. Wade, Maine Family Planning is offering intensive trainings in different locales around the state that invite reproductive rights supporters to deepen their knowledge & skills around abortion advocacy & join us in our efforts to expand access & promote justice in 2018 and onward. There are many new challenges ahead, and also opportunities for bold action. We’re investing in each other for the long haul. Won't you join us? WHO: Champions of reproductive…
Find out more »October 2018
Reproductive Justice Teach-In
MFP is teaming up with Grandmothers for Reproductive Rights for an interactive presentation including storytelling, and open discussion about the realities of restricted reproductive health and justice before and after Roe v. Wade. This presentation is aligned with a co-curricular UMF focus on the major political events and social movements of 1968. Presentation will take place in Roberts 101 on the UMaine- Farmington campus. Open to public. Contact Cait Vaughan with questions: cvaughan@mainefamilyplanning.org.
Find out more »Abortion Care 101
Learn about the realities of abortion care & access in Maine Get answers to your questions Engage in a non-judgmental & safe learning environment Presented by Maine Family Planning staff to the Student Nursing Organization @ UMaine Fort Kent, but open to the public and fellow providers as well.
Find out more »Gubernatorial Forum on Women’s Economic Security
Please join MFP, the Maine Women's Policy Center, and allied partner organizations on October 21st as we highlight key policy issues, and educate candidates, the media, and the public on why issues of economic security are so pivotal to the success of Maine women, children, and families. Where: Hannaford Hall at the University of Southern Maine Light refreshments will be served during a reception in the lobby from 5:30PM-6:30PM. This is a FREE event and open to the public! This…
Find out more »January 2019
Fighting Forward Abortion Advocacy Training @ Bates College
Maine Family Planning is offering intensive trainings in different locales around the state that invite reproductive rights supporters to deepen their knowledge & skills around abortion advocacy & join us in our efforts to expand access & promote justice in 2019 and onward. There are many new challenges ahead, and also opportunities for bold action. We’re investing in each other for the long haul. Won't you join us? Registration Required: https://goo.gl/forms/3RfHu6d9lMt4yLC02 WHO: Champions of reproductive rights (and newcomers!) who want…
Find out more »February 2019
Harm Reduction 101 & Naloxone Training
Maine Family Planning is partnering with Maine Access Points & The Commons at Central Hall to bring this engaging, community-based public health education event to Dover-Foxcroft. The program will include a review of the basic principles of harm reduction, a practical demonstration of how to administer Naloxone to someone experiencing an overdose, as well as discussion of proposed policy changes related to substance use & treatment being considered in the legislature this session. WHAT IS HARM REDUCTION? Harm Reduction is…
Find out more »February 2020
LD 1613 Public Hearing – Family Planning Works 4 ME!
Join us on Thursday, February 13 to tell elected officials: Family Planning Works for ME! Family planning services, like birth control, empower Mainers to build the lives and families they envision, to decide when and whether to parent, and to pursue educational and career goals on their own timelines. That's why we're supporting LD 1613, "An Act Regarding Women's Health and Economic Security," a bill that would replace lost federal funds with state funds to sustain Maine's existing family planning…
Find out more »January 2021
Roe v. Wade: Where Do We Stand?
In partnership with the ACLU of Maine and the Center for Reproductive Rights, please join us for a special conversation between Emily Nestler, Senior Staff Attorney at the Center for Reproductive Rights, Zach Heiden, Chief Counsel at the ACLU of Maine, and Leah Coplon, Program Director for Maine Family Planning’s Parker Harris and Russell DeJong Center for Reproductive Health. The conversation will be moderated by MFP board member Barbara Taback Schneider, retired attorney and former executive director of Maine Adaptive.
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