One of a handful of youth clinics serving the Mission, Bayview, Excelsior, and Visitacion Valley communities will be shut down by the end of April, a move decried by school nurses who say it leaves young women and men of color without easy access to birth control, testing for pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections, and reproductive health education.

“There’s going to be a lot of schools in this area that are going to be severely impacted by not having them in this area,” said Mary-Michael Watts, the nurse at Mission High School.

Staff at the New Generation Health Clinic, which is run with personnel from the University of California at San Francisco and located at 625 Potrero Avenue, received 30-day notices of termination on March 1. One nurse has been laid off already, according to its outreach coordinator Tino Ratfliff, and the clinic will be operating with a skeleton crew until the end of its closure.

For more on this story, by Joe Rivano Barros, go to: http://missionlocal.org/2016/0...ving-minority-youth/