Programs & services

Information baskets
Several local proprietors have volunteered space in their stores to host their own baskets! These baskets contain condoms, and reproductive health materials. We thank the following proprietors for helping Citizens for Choice reach our citizens with the information and services they need.

After the Gold Rush Records
Asylum Down
Behind Closed Doors
BriarPatch
Café Mekka
Classic Tattoo
Common Goals
CoRR (Community Recovery Resources)
Diamond Tattoo
DVSAC
Foggy Mountain Music
GoodTimes Board Store
Maternity Health Center
Mine Shaft
Miners Family Health Center (with teen services)
Nito’s T-shirts and Hats
Renegade Classics
Serendipity
Sierra College Health Services
Sierra Mountain Coffee Roasters
Tribal Weaver
WIC (Women, Infants, and Children’s Services)
Yuba Docs

Outreach
C.H.O.I.C.E.S.! A club on the Sierra College Campus
In 2009 a new club was formed on the Sierra College campus, of young women and men who graduated high school where they were trained as peer advocates through the Health Department. They decided to continue their advocacy on the Sierra College campus, and with the consent of Sierra College, a new advocacy club was born - C.H.O.I.C.E.S., Connecting Health Options, Individual Choices, and Educational Services, and supported by Citizens for Choice.

CHOICES mission is to be a resource to college students on where they can get the health care that they may need, and to become a presence on a college campus in an attempt to engage other proactive people.

Some activities that CHOICES intends to partake in is awareness-building campaigns like World AIDS Day, National Condom Week, Teen Pregnancy Prevention Month, STD Awareness Month, Love Your Body Week (initiated by NOW), and more. They have weekly meetings (please join them!) and provide educational resources to new club members, as well as providing a condom basket on campus. The club is also planning to offer discussion groups on campus that will include topics such as ‘Choice,’ abortion, condom, and birth control use, domestic violence, pregnancy options, abstinence and more.  Students will be invited to get trained on birth control options, STIs, healthy relationships and more, and will also be given opportunities to educate the community in collaboration with other organizations like CoRR, DVSAC and Common Goals.

A number of these students are also volunteering thei time to monitor the Information Baskets in the local Grass Valley and Nevada City businesses and table at the Grass Valley Marketplace.

The Clinic!
Reproductive healthcare for women, men, and teens
Mondays 10:30 a.m to 5:00 p.m. and Wednesdays noon to 6:00 p.m.
120 Richardson St., Suite A, Grass Valley (near the South Pine Cafe)
No appointment necessary!

The majority of our clients qualify for Family PACT, a California family planning program which covers the cost of most reproductive healthcare. If you don't qualify for Family PACT, there are other programs available as well as a sliding scale.

530.521.3273 The Clinic! number will be answered during clinic hours and checked daily at all other times.

800.714.8151 24/7 Women's Health Specialist

530.274.3331 Citizens for Choice voice mail; messages will be retrieved at least weekly.

Services include:
Pregnancy tests
Birth control (many kind), condoms
Morning-after Pill (emergency contraception)
Abortion referrals, including ride information
STD testing and treatment
HIV testing
Complete gynecological exams
Pre-natal information
Adoption and practical support referrals

Health education forums
Citizens for Choice Staff and Board members occassionally hold a series of health education forums highlighting various reproductive health related topics. Please contact us if you'd like your organization to hold one of these forums.

Community presentations
Citizens for Choice Outreach Educators also conduct presentations throughout the community about many different health education topics. Do you have a class or community group for us to visit? Drop us an email

Family Sexuality Education Month
In October many local organizations join Citizens for Choice to present panels, presentations, and discussions on how to talk to your children about sex. If there's a particular area that you would like to discuss or see presented, please let us know.

Health Education Pamphlets are available for Parents and for Teens

Now Hiring! We are looking for a qualified Outreach Education Coordinator.

President Obama to exclude abortion coverage for high-risk women! Tell him NO!

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Read the review for Carole Joffe's book, Dispatches from the Abortion Wars.

Fake clinics, or "crisis pregnancy centers" give you one choice - theirs. NARAL has just completed a two-year study on CPCs, Unmasking Fake Clinics. You really need to read this.

Read about our local CPC

Comprehensive Sex Education California law says it's mandatory that schools teach HIV/AIDS classes twice and if they choose to teach sex education, it must be comprehensive and must follow the guidelines in the California Education Code. How is Nevada County holding up to this legal requirement?

The Guttmacher Institute Media Update: California shows that sound policy is crucial in reducing teen pregnancy.

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Are you pregnant and need a ride to your counseling or abortion appointment? ACCESS can help!

Questions about HPV (human papillomavirus)? This Nantional Cancer Institute Fact Sheet is a good source!

Abstinence-only education still doesn't work.