Options for Sexual Health

How Do I Donate to OPT or Become a Member?

It's easy...make a donation and become a member.

Contribute any amount to OPT and become a member in the organization for 12 months.

What you receive as a member:

• A newsletter several times a year with sexual health updates and news of OPT's activities
• Advance notice of, and reduced fees to, OPT events and conferences
• Voting privileges at the Annual General Meeting (OPT employee members receive all benefits except voting privileges)
• The opportunity to support positive social change in the areas of sexuality education and reproductive health. At OPT, donations help keep the cost of birth control and school sexual health education accessible and affordable.

Make a one-time donation, or become a monthly donor and never worry about renewing your membership again.

What we do...

In 2008 we:

• Provided sexual health services to approximately 37,500 clients in 50 clinics.
• Taught sexual health to over 10,000 youth, parents, teachers, nurses and other professionals
• Answered approximately 11,000 calls and emails on the 1-800-SEX-SENSE Line.
• Creatively engaged the public with sexual health information and services.  This summer, OPT was one of only a few community organizations present at the Pemberton Music Festival, where we provided workshops, distributed safer sex supplies and offered sexual health information to 40,000+ festival goers.
• Partnered for sexual health research in BC and across Canada, integrating education and social action to improve health and reduce health inequalities. Our primary research focus at the moment is as one of four lead research investigators developing Canada's first national study of sexual health indicators.  Click here to find out more about this and other OPT research partnerships.
• Engaged in other special projects, such as developing guidelines to support the intimacy and relationship needs of individuals living in residential care facilities, enhancing cervical cancer screening procedures in BC, and improving access to abortion services across the province.