August is HPV Vaccination Month in Alaska, and KBFPC is doing our part by sharing information about how to get the vaccine! Protect Kids Against Cancer: recommended for all young people, starting at age 9, this safe and effective vaccine helps prevent six types of cancer. Know the facts about the benefits of early vaccination…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 27, 2025 Kachemak Bay Family Planning Clinic Releases Report on Community Understanding of Syphilis and STI Trends on the Kenai Peninsula HOMER, Alaska — Kachemak Bay Family Planning Clinic (KBFPC) releases comprehensive new report titled Syphilis & Sexually Transmitted Infections: Baseline Data Compilation and Community Knowledge Assessment, highlighting community insights surrounding…
KBFPC’s Teen Health Education Team are once again offering foundational, age-appropriate sexual & reproductive health knowledge outside of the school day. This FREE workshop series uses KBFPC’s peer-to-peer education model and is available to all middle and high-school aged students, homeschool or in-school. If you are ready to sign up, here are the forms: Jan 27-31 (age…
KBFPC is in your area! Kachemak Bay Family Planning Clinic provides essential sexual & reproductive healthcare twice per month in the Central Peninsula’s Kenai/Soldotna area. Along with comprehensive services in our Homer flagship clinic, and telehealth options available for anyone in the area, KBFPC providers regularly travel to see clients in Kenai at the Kenai…
August is HPV Vaccination Month in Alaska, and KBFPC is doing our part by sharing information about how to get the vaccine! Recommended for all young people, starting at age 9, this safe and effective vaccine helps prevent six types of cancer. Know the facts about the benefits of early vaccination and contact your healthcare…
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…
Syphilis is on the rise in Alaska and poses a very serious health danger. Syphilis is a common sexually transmitted infection (STI, or STD) that can cause harmful complications or death if left untreated. You can have syphilis and not know it Anyone can pass it on, even to your unborn baby It is preventable,…
KBFPC’s Education Team is thrilled to offer foundational, age-appropriate sexual & reproductive health knowledge outside of the school day. This FREE, five-day workshop series uses KBFPC’s peer-to-peer education model and is available to all middle and high-school aged students, homeschool or in-school. Participants will be provided with food and drink each session, and will receive…
Opinion: Alaska’s syphilis spike should concern us all KBFPC is partnering with State agencies along with other social service and health organizations to find solutions to Alaska’s syphilis epidemic. The roots of the problem are grounded in health inequity in general and the need for widespread access to reproductive health and sexual health education. Here…