Family Tree Clinic

What’s up at the Tree

• Thanks to all who attended Arborfest 2008! Family Tree Clinic’s annual beer-tasting fundraiser was a big success yet again. We had over 30 craft beer vendors, and over 400 attendees. Thanks again to all who came out to support the clinic and our mission to provide affordable, confidential, respectful reproductive and sexual health care. Because Your Sexual Health Matters!!

• Check out Ms. Magazine online for an article featuring our very own, recently retired, Peg Labore, former Executive Director at Family Tree. The article, published August 20th, is called “Minnesota to Cut Birth Control Costs in Half.” Peg and others have been lobbying hard for opportunities to get cheaper birth control out to the vast amounts of women who need it. Click here to read the article and find out more about the progress of this important legislative change.

• Family Tree participated in the 2007 Headwaters Walk for Justice in September. Our team raised over $3,000! The Walk for Justice is an inclusive fundraising and publicity event in support of community-based non-profit organizations in Minnesota that work on a variety of issues, including social, racial, economic, and environmental injustice. For more information and how to get involved go to the Walk for Justice website

Articles

• The Birds and the Bees and the STDs by Charles Davis, Pulse Magazine, January 17th, 2007
• ‘Plan B’ Pill is Suddenly on the Fast Track by Josephine Marcotti, Star Tribune, August 1st, 2006

Recent Family Tree News