Choices Pregnancy Services

STD testing for men and women. STD/STI (sexually transmitted disease or infection) are epidemic in proportion. Choices offers free testing and treatment in collaboration with the Allegheny Health Department and the State of Pennsylvania. Along with the testing and treatment Choices offers education and sexual integrity counseling.

Upon deciding to carry to term a woman may need support and encouragement throughout her pregnancy. By participating in our Parent University program, clients learn what to expect throughout pregnancy and childbirth. They also learn important parenting information as well as other life skills. As they continue to receive education they receive layette items that are needed for their newborn.

Trained educators engage with students in their own middle or high school classrooms to present The Real Choices program It is an educational initiative that offers medically factual statistics, powerful personal testimony and engaging activities all designed to empower teens to choose abstinence and the best way to achieve their goals and to protect their futures.

Women and men who have experienced the trauma of abortion in their past, often live with regret and emotional or spiritual pain. This program which includes a Bible study, helps them find healing, hope, peace and restoration in a confidential atmosphere.

For parents struggling with financial concerns upon learning that they are pregnant, not only are they invited to participate in our Parent U program as described above to get help with supplies needed for their babies, they are also invited to participate after birth in our Diapers for a Year program. They will continue to meet with a client advocate once a month, be encouraged and supported in their parenting, and will receive the number of diapers needed each month for the first year after birth. This results in an approximate $1,100 savings over the course of that year.