FROM KBFPC’S SPECIAL EDITION COMMUNITY NEWSLETTER – OCTOBER 2024 Friends, With the first significant snowfall across Southcentral Alaska comes the wrap up of October and Breast Cancer Awareness Month. The beautiful pink flags flying across the region will soon be put to rest, but thanks to support from the many 2024 pink flag sponsors and…
FROM KBFPC’S JULY 2024 COMMUNITY NEWSLETTER “Thanks for helping make the community safer and more informed on health.” – KBFPC Client Friends, You’re busy with July activities, I know, but please take a moment with me to think about literacy. Yes, literacy is the ability to read and write, but also to navigate and use…
FROM KBFPC’S MAY 2024 COMMUNITY NEWSLETTER Friends, I love this time of year. The days are getting longer, there is so much hustle and bustle in preparation for the summer season, and the air smells of possibility. That’s what the new growth on plants and trees reminds me of anyways. This month has meant a…
FROM KBFPC’S February 2024 COMMUNITY NEWSLETTER Friends, In this newsletter, you will find news about events for adults and teens running tonight through next weekend that are educational, celebratory, enlightening, and highlight reproductive and sexual health. You’ll also find information about bills under consideration during Alaska’s 33rd session that may impact reproductive and sexual health…
FROM KBFPC’S January 2024 COMMUNITY NEWSLETTER Friends, Happy new year! It was easy to come up with my word of the year… possibility. I like to think that the challenges we face, and I know we will face more again this year, can give birth to possibilities, solutions, and new ideas, when we join forces…
FROM KBFPC’S DECEMBER 2023 COMMUNITY NEWSLETTER Friends, Happy holidays! 2023 has been full of unexpected challenges and successes and at this time of year all of us at KBFPC are taking the important opportunity to reflect on what we want 2024 to be. I am not going to be shy. There was a lot of…
FROM KBFPC’S November 2023 COMMUNITY NEWSLETTER Friends, How do you know what a healthy relationship is? Did you learn by reading a definition somewhere, talking to family and friends about it, consulting Alaska State Law, through a process of elimination, or…? Many of us navigate a variety of influences to come up with the answer;…
FROM KBFPC’S October 2023 COMMUNITY NEWSLETTER Friends, Every day, I am so appreciative of my KBFPC colleagues, each of whom make sure the reproductive health care and sexual health education we share is medically-accurate, relevant, clear, respectful, engaging, thorough, accessible, and useful. This is both trauma-informed and fundamental to health literacy. For 20 years healthcare…
FROM KBFPC’S September 2023 COMMUNITY NEWSLETTER Friends, We did not imagine that a major capital project would be part of 2023, but surprise! The repairs from the flood in July are well under way. The piles of rock and dirt, big equipment, and the shudders felt throughout the building as the work progressed became a…
FROM KBFPC’S July 2023 COMMUNITY NEWSLETTER Friends, July has already been an emotional whirlwind at KBFPC. In anticipation of the Roots & Shoots celebration and fundraiser on July 22nd, we have been reminiscing about the past 40 years with previous and current staff, board members, volunteers, and even clinic clients. Check out this Thursday’s Homer…