About Planned Parenthood

Have you heard of Planned Parenthood before but not sure what it is? Minerva Cano a member of the Parent and Adult Program at Planed Parenthood explains everything you need to know.
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About Planned Parenthood

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Planned Parenthood is an agency that has been around for almost a hundred years. We provide healthcare for individuals, men, women and teens. We also provide education and we also provide information for individuals to help them with their reproductive and sexual healthcare. Some of the things that we do at Planned Parenthood are cancer screenings for testicular cancer, for cervical cancer and for breast cancer. These can be very life-saving for a lot of individuals. We also do STD testing, which is sexually transmitted infections. We also manage them or treat them, depending on which ones they have. We also do birth control. We can give them options on the different types of birth control that we have available for them. And we can also test for pregnancy to see if they are pregnant. And there is something that's options counseling that's also done. The options counseling will discuss the different options that the individual has, whether they want to carry the child full-term, whether they want to do adoption or whether they would like to have an abortion. Any one of those things are discussed at that time.

Have you heard of Planned Parenthood before but not sure what it is? Minerva Cano a member of the Parent and Adult Program at Planed Parenthood explains everything you need to know.

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Minerva Cano

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Minerva Cano has served as a Health Educator in the Parent and Adult Program at Planned Parenthood, Los Angeles since 2010. Prior to joining Planned Parenthood, Minerva directed an elementary school family resource center for 10 years. There she helped families obtain the necessary resources for their chlidren to excel in school. 

As a mother of two, Minerva understands the importance of parent-child communication, particularly in the area of sexuality, puberty and relationships. As a memeber of Planned Parenthood's Parent and Adult Health Education team, Minerva and her colleagues work every day to help parents gain the knowledge and confidence they need to engage their children in these important converstations. Through presentations in homes, schools, churches, temples and community oraginizations parents are taught how to answer their children's questions openly and honestly. 
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