Revolutionizing Women’s Healthcare: The Life-Affirming Mission of Save the Storks

How can we bridge gaps in women's healthcare? Save the Storks uses a variety of tools to help create comprehensive care.

At Save the Storks, we are dedicated to creating innovative solutions to dismantle barriers hindering women’s access to life-affirming healthcare. Our goal is to empower women to choose life over abortion by making the option of life more accessible. Here are the four elements that build our mission to provide every woman with the holistic healthcare she needs.

The Four Elements that Build Our Mission

1. Mobile Medical Clinic

2. National Partner Program

3. Community Partners

4. Digital Platform

Mobile Medical Clinic

The Save the Storks Mobile Medical Clinic was our first innovative idea to break any barriers to women receiving the quality care they need.

Our Mobile Medical Clinics are capable of reaching even the most remote and unreached regions. These state-of-the-art mobile medical clinics ensure women receive top-notch care and compassionate help. Our clinics offer free pregnancy tests, ultrasounds, and STI testing. They serve as a vital link between pregnancy centers and women. Our clinics ensure access to high-quality healthcare no matter where they are.

An image of a Save the Storks Mobile Medical Clinic. — A Save the Storks Mobile Medical Clinic

Save the Storks started with our state-of-the-art mobile medical clinic. It was the first of its kind to offer free ultrasounds, pregnancy testing, STI testing, and counseling. It’s been 12 years now since the first unit was launched, and since then, we’ve seen 102 mobile medical clinics launched across 34 states. Our goal is to get them into every state and into every key city. We’ve served thousands of women and have seen 11,000 lives saved through these mobile clinics where women facing unplanned pregnancies can see their baby in the womb and learn about their options and all the resources available to them: continued care, parenting classes, financial aid, legal assistance, housing, education and career development, and more.

National Partner Program

What does our National Partner Program truly accomplish in terms of excellence and medical care?

When we partner with a women’s health clinic, we help to expand their offerings and build a platinum reputation as a women’s healthcare provider in their community.

Our ultimate objective is to reclaim reproductive rights as a life-affirming cause.

By partnering with us, women’s health clinics have the opportunity to enhance their services and establish a strong reputation as trusted women’s healthcare providers within their communities. Simply put, we help pregnancy centers go medical.

It’s not just about guiding women’s health clinics toward a medical model; we’re aiming for a level of care that competes head-to-head with neighboring women’s health clinics. By partnering with these pregnancy health centers, we help them elevate their services by forming action plans to achieve a medical standard of excellence. We do this by ensuring they are accredited, have medical personnel on staff, and facilities are up to date with intentional branding and marketing.

Our ultimate objective is to reclaim reproductive rights as a life-affirming cause and ensure women receive the highest quality reproductive healthcare possible in their local communities.

Community Partners

They say it takes a village to raise a child, but in modern society, we’ve noticed a disconnect between the women facing an unplanned pregnancy and the ‘village’ they need. While communities may rally to rescue a puppy, they may not always extend the same support to women facing unplanned pregnancies.

Our goal is to empower churches to embody the compassionate spirit of Jesus, actively reaching out to support mothers in their communities as they strive to build thriving lives. This initiative provides an opportunity to demonstrate God’s love and uphold the dignity of every mother. Community and church partnerships help bridge the gap between women and their communities, fostering support and understanding.

Additionally, we are not limited to churches in terms of community partnerships or pregnancy health centers. We also partner with different organizations at the regional level, just recently, we launched a partnership with OCRM (Orange County Rescue Mission), but it doesn’t matter what your size is. Whether you’re a church, a small group, an organization, a center, or even just a family that wants to help, you can become a partner or help us raise money through friendraisers and even volunteer at your local Storks-affiliated pregnancy center.

Digital Platform

We know that time is of the essence when it comes to a woman facing an unplanned pregnancy. Our aim is to bridge the time gap with 24-hour availability, ensuring women can access life-affirming support at any hour. We want the two in-the-morning moments met with life-affirming and hopeful resources rather than Planned Parenthood. Many pregnancy centers operate on limited schedules, often only open a few days a week with short hours. This stands in stark contrast to the accessibility of Planned Parenthood and services like ‘Ask Tia,’ which operate nearly every day of the week. By offering round-the-clock access, we can meet women in their moments of uncertainty with resources that promote life-affirming choices. Our platforms, For Every Woman and Infinite Worth 24/7, are designed to break down barriers and offer hopeful alternatives to abortion.

For Every Woman is a digital enterprise that helps connect women online with resources through our eight pillars of care area, such as physical and mental healthcare, housing, and adoption agencies, and provides educational pieces on the site about their sexual and reproductive health. We want to reach women even before they face an unintended pregnancy, and so far, we’ve seen over 3,000 women engage with us online through our chatbot. We have an extensive database of resources pulled from all across the country, which are meticulously vetted and approved. The best way for a person to volunteer here is if they have digital expertise, whether that’s with helping build and filter the database, copywriting, content creation, and becoming a spokesperson for the brand by sharing our content with others in their network/community.

Creating Holistic Healthcare

Through our Mobile Medical Clinics, we break barriers to provide quality holistic healthcare to women in remote areas. Our National Partner Program elevates Pregnancy Resource Centers to compete with neighboring clinics, setting a platinum standard of care. Community Partnerships bridge the gap between women facing unplanned pregnancies and the support they need. Our Digital Platform offers round-the-clock access to life-affirming resources, ensuring women receive the support and alternatives they deserve. Together, these elements build a foundation of excellence and compassion, guiding women toward comprehensive care and life-affirming choices.

About the author

Save The Storks

Save the Storks is a life-affirming nonprofit dedicated to creating a story of hope and empowerment for every woman facing an unplanned pregnancy. We do this through compassion, education, and holistic care by providing tangible resources and services through our Mobile Medical Clinics, National Partner Program, Church and Community Partnerships, and digital platform, For Every Woman.

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