About ICAN!

People in Illinois continue to face multiple, intersecting barriers to accessing high quality contraceptive services, preventing communities from experiencing optimal health outcomes and individuals from exercising reproductive autonomy and achieving reproductive well-being across the lifespan. ICAN!’s strategy is informed by reproductive justice theory. As such, our goal is not to direct individuals towards particular contraceptive methods but rather to create the conditions for individuals to make informed decisions about their reproductive and sexual health using a patient-centered contraceptive counseling model.​

ICAN! stands in solidarity with communities of color whose right to parent in safe and healthy environments is routinely violated by racist and xenophobic violence. Our efforts to advance contraceptive equity are one piece of the greater struggle against all forms of racial and economic oppression that adversely affect individuals’ reproductive lives.