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So I just had a new idea last night about providing information for family planning at the food shares.
I volunteer at Planned Parenthood, so I have access to free condoms, as well as their informational packets in Spanish and English about safe sex and the services they provide at their health centers. I could bring a table to the Farmingville food share to put out condoms and the information.
I did not ask my volunteer supervisor yet, because I wanted to know if you think it's appropriate, but she typically likes it when volunteers come up with their own outreach ideas. Please let me know if you would like me to talk more to my supervisor so I can arrange to bring condoms and other information.
Arona
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Expanding safer sex knowledge
This is something we've talked about on and off. I think having condoms and safer sex information at food shares is a good idea. That said, from conversations we've had in Hempstead & Huntington about this I know there were people that felt uncomfortable particularly in-regards to younger children in the crowd. A solution, perhaps a more awkward solution, we came up with in the past was to ask the adults one-on-one if they'd like any information, condoms, etc...
We've never had this conversation in Farmingville, so perhaps things could be different. Maybe we can bring this up at the next food share and ask people how'd they'd like us to proceed. Either way, I think having the information, etc... avaible is a good thing and that we should try and fit it into our food share.