Interfaith Medical Center Clinic Granted $20k to Fund Free Contraceptive Care Program

The Bishop Orris G. Walker, Jr. Family Health Center at Interfaith Medical Center has received a grant of $20,000 from the Brooklyn Health Equity Foundation to fund the clinic’s free contraceptive care program.

Dr. Gwendolyn Lewis, Vice President of Ambulatory Care at Bishop Walker, founded the program in 2016, which originally received funding from the New York City Dept. of Health and Public Health Solutions to purchase contraceptives and partner with public and charter schools to educate local youth on her center’s contraceptive care options.

Since starting the program in 2016, Dr. Lewis says she has seen a decline in teenage pregnancy in the area her clinic serves.

The clinic, which is part of the One Brooklyn Health system, provides a variety of contraceptive options for women through the program such as IUDs, female condoms, the pill and Plan B.