RealOptions

Realoptions is a California not-for-profit corporation, incorporated in 1981 in the state of California. The organization provides compassionate, comprehensive, high quality holistic healthcare, support services, optimal health education, and pregnancy loss healing to women, men, students, and families. They have five licensed medical clinic locations serving alameda, san mateo, and santa clara counties devoted to caring for patients physically, emotionally, and spiritually. We offer a broad spectrum of prevention, intervention, and restorative services to the community positively impacting thousands of students and families each year. The organization has a holistic approach to health care and is committed to meeting our patient's physical, emotional, and spiritual needs. They provide well woman care, std testing and treatment, pregnancy option consultations, pregnancy tests, ultrasound imaging, prenatal care, abortion pill reversal treatment, childbirth and parenting classes, and material support in the form of maternity clothing, emergency formula, diapers, and new car seats. They also provide pregnancy loss healing programs to anyone impacted by miscarriage or abortion, as well as optimal health education in schools, youth groups, and community organizations for fifth through twelfth grade students and their parents.in 2022 Realoptions provided over 6,651 services to 5,324 people through our medical clinics, optimal health education, and pregnancy loss healing programs. The organization supported 1,916 parents to be able to choose life for 958 children through life affirming consultations and holistic medical services, which included: 1,223 pregnancy tests, 1,927 ultrasound exams, 530 std screenings, 1,223 options consultations, 576 material support appointments, 224 prenatal exams, 14 abortion pill reversal visits, and 69 well woman exams. In 2022 Realoptions executed on year three of our title v, sexual risk avoidance education grant, the first in our 40 year history. This award widened our reach to local students for optimal health education which includes healthy relationship and sexual risk avoidance curriculum. It has also afforded us the opportunity to have our educators, nurses, and patient advocates certified as optimal health educators and coaches and to use this science based curriculum in local schools, youth groups, boys and girls clubs, and in our clinics. In 2022 we provided 438 presentations to reach 2,331 students, faculty, and parents at 49 schools and organizations. Realoptions operates clinics serving san mateo, alameda, and santa clara counties. We were able to grow the number of people served in these communities by employing our comprehensive digital marketing campaigns.in 2022, the organizatoin continued to utilize our benevolence committee to oversee the distribution of funds to help patients with desperate financial needs. The committee consists of our director of operations, a donor who is a previous board member, and our director of education. Patients must file a simple application and funds are paid directly to their needed request (ie: gas bill, landlord for rent, etc.) Once an application is approved by the committee.