FAPPA: Reflections on 2009

A Year In Pictures

What a year! FAPPA is so proud of our accomplishments this year and looks forward to keeping up the momentum in 2010. Wishing you and yours a joyful holiday season and a happy, healthy and prosperous new year!

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Volunteers

We are so grateful to all of our wonderful activists across the state that have kept the drumbeat going strong for women's health! By writing letters, tabling at community events, and taking part in our many phone banks, our volunteers have made a difference in 2009. Learn more about our dedicated volunteers by reading about Featured Activists in their own words.

Lobby Day 2009

Our Lobby Day in 2009 was a resounding success! Over 120 supporters of all ages from across the state of Florida joined us in Tallahassee to educate their legislators on the need for access to contraception and comprehensive sex education in the state. In support of the Prevention First Act and the Healthy Teens Act, Planned Parenthood activists joined bill sponsors for an afternoon press conference in the Capitol.

Pictured: Planned Parenthood supporters gathered for the press conference. Senator Nan Rich (D-34), takes the podium in support of the Prevention First Act, which she sponsored in the 2009 session. Activists from Collier County in the Rotunda.

Health Care Reform

Planned Parenthood has been working to make sure women are not worse off after health care reform than they are today. In Florida, volunteers have participated in 19 phone banks since July, helping to connect 14,404 Planned Parenthood supporters nationwide directly to their members of Congress. Florida volunteers are responsible for directly connecting 10% of these constituents and for ensuring that 186 supporters from across Florida attended vital town hall meetings on health care reform.

In early December, 17 Planned Parenthood activists from Florida flew to DC to join over 1,300 members of the Coalition to Pass Health Care Reform and Stop Stupak! in order to ensure comprehensive reproductive health care, including abortion, is covered in health care reform. More than 385,000 signed petitions and 35,000 e-mails were delivered to the Senate.

VIDEO: Planned Parenthood Day of Action on Capitol Hill

Pictured: Young activists from Florida in DC. Florida's delegation visits Senator Bill Nelson's (D-FL) office on Capitol Hill and delivers over 7,000 petitions from Florida voters against Stupak-like language in the Senate bill. Volunteers phone banking for health care reform.

Legislative Successes

Every anti-choice attack we faced in the 2009 legislative session in Florida was defeated! To find our more about the bills we monitored in 2009, click here.

VIDEO: Floridians Speak out in Support of the Healthy Teens Act

State Representative Kevin Rader (D-78) joins Planned Parenthood supporters from South Florida in the Capitol Rotunda.
Planned Parenthood visits Florida Chief Financial Officer Alex Sink in her office. Advocates with Congresswoman Kathy Castor (D-FL) and Congressman Ron Klein (D-FL) in Washington DC.

Young Activists

Young activists from Florida joined the Youth Organizing and Policy Conference in Washington DC, along with 200 other youth supporters of Planned Parenthood from across the country. These young people traveled to Washington, DC to lobby for health care reform and an end to abstinence-only education — and these great leaders of the next generation made us all proud!

VIDEO: Florida Young Activists in action on Capitol Hill

Vox College Activism

We now have Vox chapters on thirteen Florida campuses! FAPPA convened our first-ever statewide Leadership Summit for Vox chapters this year. Our Vox chapters have been active on their campuses educating students on the need for access to reproductive health care and comprehensive sex education in Florida. By tabling on campus, collecting petition signatures, holding phone banks and having fun educational events, our Vox chapters are engaging the college community across Florida!

White House Project Go Run Training

FAPPA was delighted to co-sponsor the White House Project Go Run Training in Florida. The goal of The White House Project's Florida Go Run was to create a permanent, nonpartisan pipeline to women's political leadership through the state. Across the nation, the innovative Go Run program has been instrumental in propelling a diverse group of women into positions of political leadership, having trained over 8,000 women since its creation in 2004.

Pictured: Planned Parenthood staff at the training. With Marie Wilson, White House Project founder.

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