Impact and Programs
Accomplishments
Family Tree Clinic continued to improve health equity for our communities in 2024. Our clinic served nearly 3,500 patients through 9,026 visits, a 40% increase from 2023. Similar to previous years, we continued to see an increase in demand for hormone care services, constituting 68% of all visit types. Family Tree continued to center communities most impacted by health inequities. In 2024, 78% of patients identified as LGBTQ and 32% as BIPOC, 44% were below age 25, and 66% were living below 200% of the federal poverty level.
Family Tree’s clinic program integrated new pain and anxiety management options for procedures such as IUD insertions. This includes offering a range of options such as numbing medications, anti-anxiety medications, and holistic options such as aromatherapy or a support person. This service is part of our innovative, trauma-informed approach that ensures all patients have a safe and affirming experience. In a recent survey, 96% of patients reported feeling very safe at Family Tree, a uniquely high rating demonstrating our trust within our communities.
Our Health Education and Engagement department also had a successful year. Our educators taught 677 classes to more than 14,000 individuals and reached an additional 5,000 people through community outreach events. We continued to provide comprehensive puberty, sexuality, and healthy relationships programming in 120 Twin Cities metro area schools, Hennepin and Ramsey county juvenile detention centers, and multiple community locations.
Current Goals
Our goals for FY 2025 are to: provide sexual, reproductive, and gender affirming medical services reaching 3,500 unduplicated patients; provide 1,300 patients with testing for STIs through the clinic; offer a full range of affordable, low-to no-cost birth control options to all, including long acting reversible contraception (LARC) methods; provide medically accurate and age appropriate sexuality, healthy relationships, and puberty education for at least 14,000 unduplicated youth and families in schools, juvenile detention centers, and at community locations; utilize Family Tree’s trained MNsure Navigator on staff to assist at least 150 uninsured patients and community members with access to, and enrollment in, health coverage; enroll 200 individuals in the Minnesota Family Planning Program; enhance patient access to HIV prevention resources including testing and PrEP, a daily pill that prevents transmission of HIV; provide health resources and information to 10,000 community members through exhibits and outreach at community events; refer 100% of patients needing care beyond that available at Family Tree to other providers; cultivate clinical services and environments that better meet the needs for culturally competent sexual and reproductive healthcare for LGBTQ and BIPOC communities; continue to enhance our trauma-informed clinical practices; continue training rural providers through the Midwest Trans Health Education Network, training 50 new professionals in 2025 on providing hormone care and trans and gender expansive competency in health care services and delivery.
Community or Constituency Served
We provide sexual healthcare and education to communities most impacted by health inequities, including LGBTQ and BIPOC communities, youth and young adults, low-income and uninsured individuals, and people who are involved in the justice systems or experiencing homelessness or housing instability.
Geographic Area Served
Family Tree primarily serves communities in the seven-county metro area, though we have patients from all over Canada and the United States.
