Programs and results
What we aim to solve
Unexpected pregnancy and abortion experiences are highly personal, complicated situations that are often turned into political, partisan issues and weapons in ideological wars, overlooking the individuals at the center of each story. Many of Avail’s clients are in the most marginalized, vulnerable populations, those who often fall in the gaps created by complex government programs or don’t meet all the necessary criteria. While socioeconomic factors and physical needs present real challenges for those facing an unexpected pregnancy, our research confirmed their most pressing needs are the emotional and relational dilemmas they experience in the midst of an unexpected pregnancy.
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
Decision Making
Our Decision Making Program is for women and men facing a pregnancy decision.
Our client advocates meet one-on-one to process each client’s concerns, goals, and values, exploring all their options so that they can make a decision that is grounded in their values without shame, pressure, or peripheral issues being the deciding factor. Our client advocates also help to identify the obstacles our clients face and help them unlock new possibilities and solutions for their needs, which empowers them to meet their futures with confidence.
After Abortion
Our After Abortion Program is for women and men who have had an abortion experience, whether last week or twenty years ago, and have unresolved feelings they would like to process.
Clients can meet one-on-one with a client advocate who listens to their story and walks with them toward peace and hope. Women can also meet in groups with others who have had a similar experience where they are guided by one of our expert advocates through a program where they are able to share and process their emotions to move toward freedom and confidence.
Pregnancy and Parenting
Our Pregnancy and Parenting Program is for women who have chosen to carry to term—whether they choose to continue to parent their child after birth or place them in a home through adoption—and need pregnancy support.
We talk through their situations, identify problems, and find solutions. Within our network of referral partners, we provide housing, financial, legal, or services for any other need, including connections to adoption agencies, and we offer each client a personalized referral plan for meeting their unique needs. We also offer financial and career coaching, as well as group classes led by registered nurses to educate our clients about pregnancy, birth, and caring for infants—offering material resources like diapers, clothing, and strollers for those who attend regularly.
Healthy Relationships
Our Healthy Relationships Program is for women and men who want to build healthy, lasting relationships in every area of their lives, whether with their parents, partners, or friends.
Couples can meet together or one-on-one with expert client advocates who help them process their relationships, identify unhealthy patterns, and equip them with tools to build a positive relational network in their lives. We also offer classes on specific topics related to healthy relationships and group meetups
so clients can learn together about boundaries, communication skills, dealing with unsafe people, self-
identity, healing from abuse, and more.
Male Services Program
Our men’s program seeks to integrate men throughout all of Avail’s programs and services.
Avail has long recognized that men’s lives are also immensely impacted by unexpected pregnancy and abortion, and their positive engagement plays a significant role in confident decision-making and healthy family systems. Avail helps men navigate the decision-making process, prepare for fatherhood, develop healthy relationships, and process a past abortion experience with or without their female partner. Our male client advocates listen carefully to men’s feelings, concerns, fears, and questions. Then they equip their clients to take an active and positive role in their situation, whether that is parenting, supporting a partner during a decision, or seeking to process a past abortion experience.
Avail Website
We launched the new version of our website in 2020, when we updated its content and style to extend our caring and professional model of care to people searching for help online.
We also began to track website engagement more precisely which informs our sophisticated marketing system. Since 2019, we have seen website engagement skyrocket with a 160% increase in unique visitors from 2019 to 2022.
Better Clarity
Better Clarity is a digital platform that features a personal, customizable, self-guided journey for those facing an unexpected pregnancy or processing an abortion experience. It is free, confidential, and designed to put individuals back at the heart of their story.
It encourages them to:
slow down,
take note of their emotions,
journal their thoughts,
explore their options,
practice sharing their stories with trusted people, and
learn healthy coping tools.
Some sessions include audio recordings to walk clients through
breathing exercises or emotional exploration. Other sessions
allow them to select pictures that match what they’re feeling.
As a free, easily accessible program, Better Clarity can be
accessed anytime, anywhere by individuals.
Where we work
Awards
Best Small Company to Work for in New York 2023
Best Companies Group
External reviews
Our results
How does this organization measure their results? It's a hard question but an important one.
Number of clients served
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Adults, Parents, Families, Pregnant people, Economically disadvantaged people
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
Unique clients. Was tracked differently before 2021
Number of unique website visitors
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Pregnant people, Adults, Low-income people
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
This was not tracked before 2021
Number of participants engaged in programs
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Pregnant people, Adults, Low-income people
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Our Sustainable Development Goals
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Goals & Strategy
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Charting impact
Four powerful questions that require reflection about what really matters - results.
What is the organization aiming to accomplish?
Avail aims to provide a space for people facing an unexpected pregnancy or past abortion experience that is completely judgment-free, where they can express and process all of their emotions, thoughts, and desires regarding their situation and find support and resources to make informed decisions, build healthy relationships, and feel empowered to move forward with confidence. We are committed to providing compassionate, unbiased, and nonpolitical care, finding solutions for the unique needs of each client so they can flourish.
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
Avail helps improve the well-being of our clients and reduce inequalities by offering holistic support for each client that addresses every area of need: physical, emotional, spiritual, and mental. Our expert client advocates meet one-on-one with clients so we can assess which areas they need support in and connect them to Avail’s services as well as with specific resources and organizations to provide personalized, wraparound support that can meet their distinct needs. We have a network of more than 300 community organizations and referral groups that provide comprehensive services for our clients, such as safe housing, legal aid, mental health support, childcare, employment, medical services and more. We intentionally choose organizations that provide low or no fee services and we also subsidize many programs so that all clients have access to care, regardless of their socioeconomic status.
What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
In addition to our ever-growing network system of 300+ partners that provided specific wraparound support, we have trained volunteers to lead classes and support groups in a variety of areas, from practical education on breastfeeding, pregnancy, and taking care of newborns to mental and emotional support to process a past abortion or learn how to build healthy relationships. Many of these volunteers have been in similar situations and operate out of lived experience. We have increased our ability to serve clients digitally, offering virtual appointments with our advocates and expanding our referral network beyond New York City. We have also implemented an empowerment index, a new measurement tool based on scientific standards for human flourishing to address and ensure the variants of well-being and whole-life flourishing in our clients, enabling us to create a clear plan to raise each area of well-being in their lives and track their progress.
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
Since our inception, we’ve helped more than 12,000 people, and 99% of our clients value these services and would refer us to family and friends. Last year, over 90% of our clients saw an improvement in their empowerment index scores. Client needs drive our innovation and change. We are expanding both our in-person and digital services through hiring more in-person and remote advocates to increase appointment availability, creating new initiatives like a mental health support program and a new fatherhood support group, adding to our network of referral partners, creating a curriculum on building healthy relationships, training more volunteers across all our programs, and more.
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Avail NYC
Board of directorsas of 07/21/2023
Duncan Sahner
Jerry Skillett
Maggie Chung
Patrick Payton
Caroline Swenson
Board leadership practices
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Board orientation and education
Does the board conduct a formal orientation for new board members and require all board members to sign a written agreement regarding their roles, responsibilities, and expectations? Yes -
CEO oversight
Has the board conducted a formal, written assessment of the chief executive within the past year ? Yes -
Ethics and transparency
Have the board and senior staff reviewed the conflict-of-interest policy and completed and signed disclosure statements in the past year? Yes -
Board composition
Does the board ensure an inclusive board member recruitment process that results in diversity of thought and leadership? Yes -
Board performance
Has the board conducted a formal, written self-assessment of its performance within the past three years? No
Organizational demographics
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Leadership
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