Our 2025 Options for Sexual Health AGM is coming up on September 26th and we’d love to see our members there! Please find the package attached for the AGM. If you have not yet RSVP’d, please email executivedirector@optbc.org and confirm if you will be attending in person or virtually. There will be light refreshments provided… Read more »
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2025 Options for Sexual Health AGM
SAVE THE DATE: Annual General Meeting Date: Friday September 26, 2025 Time: Registration: 6:30pm, Formal Agenda: 7:00-8:00pm Location: 3550 East Hastings St, Vancouver, BC V5K 2A7 and virtually by MS Teams (Link will be sent to those who RSVP) Please RSVP noting if you will be attending in person or virtually via this email link. Meeting package will be sent… Read more »
BC has new IVF funding – here’s what you need know!
On July 2, 2025, British Columbia joined the ranks of seven other provinces across Canada providing some funding for In-Vitro Fertilization (IVF). This publicly funded program will offer one-time funding of up to $19 000 towards one standard cycle of IVF at participating clinics. The impact of infertility on British Columbians is significant with BC… Read more »
The Vagina Is Self-Cleaning
The Vagina Is Self-Cleaning: Here’s What That Means for Your Reproductive Health Did you know that the vagina is one of the few self-cleaning organs in the human body? Alongside the lungs, kidneys, and sinuses, it has a natural way of keeping itself healthy, with no fancy products required. The vagina maintains its internal balance… Read more »
Nanaimo Clinic is closed as of June 30 until further notice due to a move!
We’re on the move! Our Nanaimo Clinic will be moving to a new location at the end of this month. To accommodate the move we will be closed from June 30th, reopening date will be announced.
At Home Cervical Test Kits
Did you know we have a new process in BC for Pap tests? You can now take your cervical health into your own hands – literally – with at-home test kits. You can still see a health care provider in office if you choose, but let’s look at the at-home option! Who should have cervical… Read more »
Get Tested With Me!
Even though I volunteer at Options, I’ll admit that I still sometimes feel a bit intimidated when it’s time for STI testing. As someone with a fear of needles, I often procrastinate, but I’ve learned that the experience is always much easier and less scary than I expect. And honestly, it always feels great to… Read more »
Clinic Update February Open Letter
Throughout the past 60 years, Options has provided clinical sexual and reproductive health care to people in BC, with an expansive network of clinics providing birth control, cervical cancer screening, STI testing and treatment, pregnancy testing and options counselling, and general sexual and reproductive health services. We have persevered through so many challenges, and we… Read more »
REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL: Environmental Scan and Report for Strategic Planning
Options will be embarking on a consequential Strategic Planning consultation process in early 2025. In advance of this work, we are requesting proposals to prepare a scan of the landscape(s) within which Options operates. Please see the RFP for more details. Please consider distributing widely within your networks, and note that we are working on… Read more »
Job Opportunity: Sex Sense Supervisor
Our Sex Sense team is hiring! We’re looking for folks to join our staff! Sex Sense is a free and confidential sexual health referral and information service open Monday to Friday from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. PST. Our team of registered nurses, clinical counsellors, and sex educators offer information and resources for people living… Read more »
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