by: Kyla Horn, AAEKY Program Manager

April has been an extremely busy month for All Access EKY! Keep reading below to see everything we have been working on.

Hosted Our First AAEKY 2023 Advisory Board Meeting

FROM LEFT TO RIGHT: Dr. Alecia Fields, Maui Hall, Heather Ayer, Joanne Brown, Cara Ellis, Dustin Miracle, Susan Kincaid, Sarah Ratliff, Cait Cummings

Meet the All Access EKY Advisory Board! We’re honored to have this brilliant group of folks working with our team to help grow our impact and mission.

We were able to have our first in-person meeting of the year in Pikeville, KY. We were able to collaborate as a group and brainstorm ideas related to all three of our main buckets of work; healthcare service and delivery, community engagement, and policy. We have many exciting things coming your way!

AAEKY On Campus

AAEKY was invited to Centre College to present a convocation on reproductive well-being in Kentucky and strategies to increase contraceptive access. We taught 200+ attendees how to be successful advocates for contraceptive access and develop an action plan to improve reproductive well-being in their own communities.

We partnered with KYCOM ACOOG to host a reproductive health talk circle with students on campus at University of Pikeville. We discussed challenges in accessing reproductive healthcare in the region, training and education resources that would be useful, and what AAEKY can do to best support them.

Interested in hosting an event with AAEKY on your campus? Send an email to kyla@appalshop.org!

Clinic Visits

We are so excited to kick off our year by being back in the community and getting to spread the mission of our project face-to-face. This month we’ve been able to visit sixteen clinics in six of our counties (Pike, Floyd, Martin, Perry, Knott, and Wolfe) to speak with staff about how we can best support their needs. We couldn’t leave without making sure they were stocked up with posters, patient education materials, and some AAEKY swag.

Interested in receiving some materials for your clinic? Send an email to kwilliams@powertodecide.org!

Tabled at Hillbilly Days

AAEKY was invited to table with KYCOM AMWA & ACOOG for their Women’s Health Fair at their booth during Hillbilly Days. We provided information about local providers, STI testing locations, at-home breast exam demonstrations, as well as Plan B and condoms. Raffle tickets were sold for $1 each with all proceeds being donated to All Access EKY!