FPA sees an increase in budget support from different sources this year. Family planning funding tops $18.6 million, with the Assembly adding $1.5 million. FPA secures increased federal funding for adolescent pregnancy prevention and expanded state funding for sexually transmitted infection services.

FPA’s work on the New York Prospective Hospital Reimbursement Methodology V health reform bill ensures that family planning clinics are eligible for funding. New funding for HIV services to pregnant women is available and family planning clinics are slated to receive more than $1 million for expansion under the Primary Care Initiative program.

FPA has 140 organizational members representing health, education, social services, women, religious and civic groups across the state.

FPA’s state legislative efforts focus on: support for funding new and expanded school health clinics; expansion of subsidized health insurance for children in low-income working families; and passage of a law to ban smoking in schools and day care centers.

FPA lobbies intensively on federal health reform proposals to promote reproductive health and protect vulnerable populations, and also works to make HIV/AIDS education guidelines reality-based, ensuring they include information on risk reduction.

FPA and PPNYC launch the “New York State Campaign to Insure Women’s Health.” More than 240 organizations join the campaign in an effort to press for universal health coverage, with full reproductive health services, including abortion, in the basic benefits package.

Shirley Gordon steps down as executive director of Family Planning Advocates in August. Carol Reichert, long-time deputy executive director, assumes role of acting executive director through FPA’s 17th Legislative Conference in January 1995.