$12.8M in expenses

Supporting a healthcare provider network: accessmatters' provides funding and specialized support for network partner organizations working in the community. The organization anchors a broad network of over 100 healthcare provider organizations, providing community-based reproductive health care, supporting them with grant funding, quality management, and guidance on best practices in care and service delivery. In fy2024, accessmatters' title x family planning program supported a network of healthcare provider organizations and collectively served over 56,000 people living at or near the federal poverty level with confidential, high-quality, patient-centered health and reproductive health services. These services included the following: affordable FDA-approved birth control, pregnancy planning, breast and cervical cancer screening, testing and treatment for sexually transmitted infections (stis), HIV testing, and referrals for other critical services such as prenatal care, substance use disorder treatment, and primary care. Along with providing adolescent health services through the title x family planning health centers, accessmatters' manages a statewide network of health resource centers serving young people in schools and communities in select counties in pennsylvania. Accessmatters' also administers the adolescent health initiative (ahi), which provides evidence-based sexuality education and healthcare referrals to youth living at or near the federal poverty level in philadelphia. In fy2024, accessmatters' programs collectively served over 22,000 youth aged 13-24. Accessmatters' manages the ryan white part d HIV network in philadelphia and serves over 835 women, infants, children, and youth who are living with HIV with comprehensive, family-centered primary care and support services; the pennsylvania breast and cervical cancer early detection program in southeastern pennsylvania region, reaching over 5,237 uninsured or underinsured people in fy2024 with early detection and treatment services; and the pennsylvania perinatal partnership, a collaborative group of perinatal and family health professionals and organizations who partner to improve health outcomes for people who are pregnant or postpartum and their children through education, advocacy, and collaboration. Accessmatters' engages with partners in fields such as substance use disorder treatment and other health and social services.

$649K in expenses

Providing health services: accessmatters' provides guidance, referrals, and case management directly to clients through public health programs and accessmatters' information hotline. In fy2024, accessmatters' patient navigation programs provided warm referrals, individualized support for appointments, and linkage to care for services related to family planning and substance use disorder.accessmatters' also provided community outreach, information, and education services through accessmatters' information hotline. The hotline, with both phone and text capability, fielded over 3,000 requests in fy2024 answering questions, providing health counseling, and making referrals to care on issues ranging from stis to adolescent health to birth control and consent. Accessmatters' information hotline is staffed by trained counselors who provide compassionate, confidential, and comprehensive information and referrals for services. Hotline staff also provide outreach services at health fairs and community events, both virtual and in-person.

$208K in expenses

Engaging in research, training and advocacy: accessmatters' trains organizations in best practices, investigates public health issues, and evaluates quality of care. Accessmatters' centers health access, breaks down stigma, ensures confidentiality, and works to normalize discussions of the provisions of health and reproductive health services. Accessmatters supports long-standing, nationally-recognized research, evaluation, training, and quality management programs, providing tailored solutions for hundreds of healthcare and social service providers helping people and organizations engage to work in trauma-informed and client-centered ways. In fy2024, accessmatters' evaluated healthcare providers' success in implementing best practices and assessed the effectiveness of innovative interventions; our team conducted 10 literature reviews, needs assessments, and environmental scans; and conducted over 30 presentations, including 2 conference presentations. In fy2024, accessmatters' provided more than 150 virtual professional development and skills-building trainings and evidence-based interventions on topics related to reproductive health, client-centered care, health access, and social determinants of health. Accessmatters' trainings were delivered to thousands of health, medicine, and human service providers as well as staff of foundations, corporations, and government agencies locally, regionally, and nationally. Accessmatters' recognizes the need for ongoing advocacy to underscore the importance of continued funding and support for this vital work and speaks out to shape opinion and policy on key issues. In fy2024, accessmatters weighed in on local, state, and national policy, outlining effective policy solutions and program strategy. Accessmatters' implemented over 500 unique actions, including over 20 engagements with elected and appointed officials to address the issues that impact accessmatters' programs and the people they serve. Key issues included: comprehensive reproductive health education, contraceptive care and counseling, STI prevention and treatment (including HIV), trauma informed care practices, health outcomes for people who are pregnant and/or parenting, title x family planning program service provision and funding, assessing client need for reproductive health care, reproductive life planning, intimate partner violence and healthy relationships education, family education to support youth mental health and healthy communication, and language education.