[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 94 (Tuesday, June 22, 2010)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages E1158-E1159]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                  HONORING THE CAREER OF DOROTHY MANN

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                        HON. ALLYSON Y. SCHWARTZ

                            of pennsylvania

                    in the house of representatives

                         Tuesday, June 22, 2010

  Ms. SCHWARTZ. Madam Speaker, I rise today to recognize Dorothy Mann 
and celebrate her retirement after 33 years as the bold and visionary 
Executive Director of the Family Planning Council in Philadelphia.
  The Family Planning Council administers all public funds for family 
planning services in the five-country Philadelphia region. Under 
Dorothy's leadership, the Council worked to prevent teen pregnancy, HIV 
infection and other STDs; to provide care to HIV positive women, 
children and families; and to provide breast and cervical cancer 
screening programs for uninsured women and so much more. In 2008, the 
Council served 145,000 patients, and in 2009 was the 6th largest 
provider of Title X family planning services in the nation.

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  Dorothy has worked tirelessly to improve reproductive health care for 
women and men in the United States. Beginning as a family planning 
outreach worker in California, she went on to play a key role in the 
development of groundbreaking research paving the way for the Title X 
Family Planning program we know today.
  Arriving in Pennsylvania in the early 1970's, Ms. Mann was 
instrumental in opening the first federally funded family planning 
programs in the Commonweatlh. A tenacious advocate, Dorothy Mann took 
her leadership to a national level where she testified before Congress 
and served on two Institute of Medicine panels about the importance of 
preventing STIs and the perinatal transmission of HIV. In addition, Ms. 
Mann is a founding member and former Board President of National Family 
Planning & Reproductive Health Association (NFPRHA) and the AIDS 
Alliance for Children, Youth & Families.
  On personal note, I am grateful to be among those with the honor of 
calling Dorothy Mann a colleague and a friend. We have spent many years 
working closely together, and I am very proud of our work.
  Today we recognize the achievements of Dorothy Mann and her 
preeminent career in the field of public health. She has done vital 
work to advance the Title X Family Planning Program and promote the 
critical link between preventive health care and opportunity for women 
are the hallmarks of her career.

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