Nevada County Citizens for Choice Educated Choices For Life.
We are here for you.
- In partnership with Women’s Health Specialists, we support access to compassionate, confidential, non-judgmental reproductive health care services for all people through The Clinic! in Grass Valley.
- We offer unbiased, comprehensive, and medically accurate education and information so you can make informed decisions about your sexual health.
- We support local sex education programs to assist teens and parents in promoting healthy conversations about sex and responsibility.
- We continually monitor current State and Federal legislation to ensure your reproductive rights are protected, and we passionately advocate for those rights.
Nevada County Citizens for Choice believes that every person deserves reproductive justice: The ability to make educated choices about their reproductive lives and health, and access to the affordable care they need. Citizens for Choice is a 501(c)(3) California Public Benefit Corporation.
Affiliations
Citizens for Choice is a member organization of the California Coalition for Reproductive Freedom (CCRF), a statewide reproductive and sexual health, rights, and justice coalition of more than 30 independent organizations. We are partners with Women’s Health Specialists for The Clinic!, a reproductive health care clinic in Grass Valley.
Mission
Citizens For Choice promotes reproductive justice through education, healthcare access and advocacy. We exist to inform and enable choice.
Our Vision
Citizens For Choice envisions the day when everyone of reproductive age has access to affordable, confidential family planning services, current medical knowledge, and reproductive healthcare.
Our vision is a community and world which work together to support reproductive justice for all, empowering and honoring individual choice.
Our History
In 1989, a coalition of three women’s organizations of Nevada County, the League of Women Voters, the American Association of University Women and Business and Professional Women, founded Nevada County Citizens for Choice. Their goal was to support reproductive choice by providing comprehensive, unbiased family planning information, education, and charitable services to the public. Their primary focus was protecting a women’s right to make medical decisions regarding her body, in private, and in a non-judgmental environment.
Nevada County Citizens for Choice became an independent organization in 1992. In 2001, we incorporated as a California public benefit corporation, for the specific purposes of providing to the public comprehensive, unbiased family planning information, education, and charitable services in support of reproductive rights. We also became a section 501( c) (3) charitable organization under the Internal Revenue Code, a tax-exempt nonprofit corporation.
In 2006, Citizens for Choice opened The Clinic!, staffed by medical professionals provided by Women’s Health Specialists of Chico and supported financially by C4C. Originally operating two days a week, The Clinic! expanded in 2021 to operating four days a week with a full-time medical provider. In response to the Covid 19 pandemic, Women’s Health Specialists began offering Telehealth visits in 2020. As of the end of 2023, the clinic averages has had 30,000 visits and is open four days a week. Services span the range from contraception to STD testing and treatment to medication abortions.