We make this announcement with a heavy heart, because we know there's no easy way forward.

Due to intense budget shortfalls challenging the future of our organization, our board has made the difficult decision to move forward with staff layoffs, a tighter Healthline budget, and pausing of key programs, along with several other budget cuts. To be transparent: we have lost funding due to our political principles and due to a reduction of institutional giving overall. This is a hard chapter for ARC-Southeast, not the end of ARC-Southeast, and we are making hard decisions to ensure we can continue providing abortion access to our callers long-term through our Healthline. We want to affirm the people who carried out our Organizing & Outreach work, who built relationships, and consistently provided community resources and educational workshops. Their labor is woven into everything we've been able to do, in programs like Sow.Now.What, Plan B: Southeast, MonARChs, and our Safe & Sustained Fund. The decision to reduce staffing reflects our financial reality, not the value of their work nor the principles that have guided it. We have provided severance pay, though we know there's no way this decision comes without harm. We don't yet have every answer about what comes next but we are committed to providing abortion access with as much care as possible, and to keeping you informed. We are deeply grateful for every single partner, support, and collaborator, and will continue this work together.