Roe May Have Fallen,
But
We Will Not.

Kearny Mesa Home to Biggest San Diego Center, First Training Facility

In November 2021, we opened our newest and largest health center in San Diego with 13 patient care rooms equipped to see 17,000 patient visits each year, double the previous Kearny Mesa health center’s capacity.

The center was named for San Diego philanthropists Joan and Irwin Jacobs, longtime supporters of Planned Parenthood’s mission to ensure broad public access to sexual and reproductive health care. The Jacobses made a landmark $10-million gift to our affiliate in 2022, providing invaluable support at a time when expanding center capacity and preparing to see more patients is critical.

Adjacent to the health center, we also opened the state-of-the-art Grant Rose Wilson Training Center, our first space dedicated to the education of reproductive health care providers.

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion: Building Together

Putting Belonging and Equity at the Heart of Our Mission

Planned Parenthood of the Pacific Southwest continues our work making sure equity and inclusion are at the core of who we are as an organization.

In the last year, we launched our Patient Experience and Health Equity Steering Committee, centered our new strategic plan around equity and belonging, and developed dashboards for reviewing clinical outcomes by demographic and regional data. We also upgraded electronic health records to better capture data on sexual orientation and gender identity.

We are now ready to set more concrete goals, assess progress and gaps, develop a more structured plan, and move toward wider accountability.

Celebrating diversity and prioritizing equity in all that we do is a long journey. It takes time and courage to recognize and dismantle systems that don’t serve our communities, and even more vision, discipline, rigor, compassion, and fortitude to build new, more inclusive and equitable models for our organization. It is critical that we lean on our In This Together values while we continue to hold ourselves and each other accountable. It is important, too, that we remember that grace, kindness, humility, and patience — combined with a clear sense of purpose, will guide us on our journey.

Learn more about our commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion at planned.org/DEI.

59^th Anniversary: Ready. Resilient. Brave.

Over 400 people attended Planned Parenthood of the Pacific Southwest’s 59^th Anniversary. Though the event was smaller than usual due to the pandemic, it still made an enormous impact: nearly $1.3 million was raised for our services and programs, a phenomenal showing in a challenging year.

Members of the Honorary Committee and their guests gathered at Omni La Costa Resort and Spa to stand with Planned Parenthood, raising more than $358,000 thanks to a generous anonymous supporter's match challenge. Chaired by James Williamson and Geoff Kors, the evening was a celebration of our movement’s resilience and a rallying cry to continue fighting for a future where all people can determine their life’s path. Writer Merritt Tierce delivered thought-provoking remarks about her own unplanned pregnancy, which she wrote about in the groundbreaking New York Times Magazine essay “The Abortion I Didn’t Have.”