2000s

 

2001

The Ministry of Health launched the Sexual and Reproductive Health Strategy, with a resource book released in 2003. These documents outlined the Government's vision for positive and improved sexual and reproductive health for all New Zealanders, and how this could be achieved.

2008

Family Planning called for the strategy to be properly resourced and implemented, so that negative outcomes such as unwanted pregnancy, abortion, HIV/AIDS, cervical cancer and sub-fertility can be reduced.

A new phenomenon - internet relationships - emerged, bringing with it a number of new sexual and reproductive health challenges.

2009

Family Planning’s youth-focussed website www.theword.org.nz was redeveloped. A youth reference group provided a young person’s perspective on the look and content of the new site.

New ground was broken with Family Planning’s development of a resource for the deaf community – a DVD in New Zealand Sign Language. Key messages in the resource were about having respect within a relationship and sexual safety.

Family Planning was saddened by the death of Mary Dobbie, QSM at the age of 95. Mary represented the last link to the women who established our organisation in the late 1930s and was a foundation member of our Auckland Committee formed in March 1940.

Family Planning published Q and A, a resource to answer to all those interesting questions about growing up. The booklet for puberty-aged young people came from a research project exploring the questions most commonly asked by young people during Family Planning's sexuality education sessions. 

Honorary Life Membership of Family Planning was awarded to Professor Sir John Scott at our AGM. The award recognised Sir John’s service to medicine and his commitment to women’s health.