Planned Parenthood of Connecticut's teen peer education program is called S.T.A.R.S., Students Teaching About Responsible Sexuality.  The overall purpose of the program is to effectively impact the development of healthy sexuality among youth. Through this program, students are trained when and how to make helpful referrals and how to respond to questions from their peers and others in their community.


Real Life, Real Talk: Raising teens today is different, and some say more difficult, than it has been at any other time in history. The need for increased communication is real. So is the need for communities to take a leadership role in helping families raise healthy kids . . . physically, emotionally and sexually. Real Life RealTalk, a bold new social marketing initiative of Planned Parenthood both nationally and in Connecticut. The goal is simple: to promote open, honest and balanced talk about sex and health in America.


Planned Parenthood of Connecticut can help you protect yourself and your partners. We provide testing and treatment for sexually transmitted infections. We also provide confidential and anonymous HIV testing.  All 18 PPC health centers offer free condoms - just walk in and ask for them.


"I just want to say thank you for all your help financially in the past year.  It's been really rough, and without your services and hospitality I could have been pregnant right now. Though it's not much, I can pay partially for my birth control. Thank you again." Patient Quote

"Planned Parenthood is a wonderful place. It's a place that  understands a female's side and willing to help when help is needed. They talk as well as listen. Things were explained to me rather than told to me. It helped me realize that there are things that need to be thought about before making any drastic decisions, and they helped me make all the right ones.  Thank you Planned Parenthood for saving my life." Patient Quote


Your support through donations, political work, and volunteerism is vitally important as we continue our rich and vibrant tradition of protecting reproductive rights in Connecticut! For over 80 years, Planned Parenthood of Connecticut has been here for the women and men of our state. In 1965, thanks to the hard work of PPC pioneers, the US Supreme Court legalized birth control and first defined the Constitutional right to privacy, upon which Roe v Wade was later based.


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