Dec 30
2020 has been a difficult year. Like so many others, the RHAP community was deeply impacted by COVID-19. In addition to the personal impact of this pandemic, our organization faced a number of new challenges. We moved our office to be 100% remote at the beginning of the pandemic. We had to learn new rhythms,…
Dec 23
Inequities in reproductive health care, including abortion, have long existed in the United States. State legislatures have sought to erode Roe v. Wade by enacting policies that restrict or delay access to and provision of abortion services. This has primarily impacted Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC), adolescents, and families living below the federal…
Dec 16
Dr. Linda Prine and Tiffany Smith, MPH, work at the Institute for Family Health, a Federally Qualified Health Center network with 17 sites across New York City and the Mid-Hudson Valley. Over the past few years, a team of clinicians and program staff has been working on a family planning grant that functions to expand…
Dec 09
We did it! We met our $10,000 match and raised a total of $33,000 on #GivingTuesday! Thank you! Missed out on Giving Tuesday? You can still donate to our year-end campaign. From now until December 31st, RHAP is raising funds to mobilize, train, and support clinicians to make reproductive health care accessible to everyone. Here’s…
Dec 02
Many people come to know RHAP through our resources and the “Your Birth Control Choices” fact sheet is one of our most popular resources. Each year, RHAP picks one content area – abortion, miscarriage, or contraception – and goes through all of our resources to determine what needs updating, what we’re missing, and how we…
Nov 25
Give a gift this #GivingTuesday, December 1, to mobilize, train, and support primary care clinicians to expand access to abortion, contraception, and miscarriage care for everyone. The clinicians we work with are on the frontlines fighting this global pandemic. We are helping them provide safe access to reproductive health care. As we near the end…
Nov 18
“This was the first time I was able to participate in the AAFP Congress of Delegates (COD) as a student member, and it was incredibly valuable. The experience gave me insight into what my future can look like as a physician-advocate. The highlights for me included listening to physicians share patient stories and hearing my…
Nov 11
This contentious presidential election has taken place in the context of an ongoing revolution for Black, Brown, and Indigenous lives, in a world severely threatened by climate change, an economic depression, and during a pandemic that continues to rage on. 2020 has been a difficult year for many, and we have all faced new challenges…
Nov 04
The hard work of RHAP board members never goes unnoticed. Between Board meetings, writing personalized thank you notes to our supporters, and championing the work of RHAP, it is humbling to work alongside these folks. One of our board members, Emily Kane-Lee, is the most recent example of the Board’s commitment to RHAP’s mission and…
Oct 28
Over the past few years, RHAP has pursued a wide array of research to understand 1) the prevalence of early pregnancy loss (EPL) care offered in New York federally qualified health centers (FQHCs), 2) the barriers and enablers to providing EPL care, and 3) the effectiveness of our Miscarriage Care Initiative (MCI) to support primary…