Pregnancy and Substance Use: A Harm Reduction Toolkit

The Academy of Perinatal Harm Reduction wishes to promote the overall health and well-being of pregnant people who use substances and their families. This resource from, the Academy of Perinatal Harm Reduction, was created for pregnant and parenting people who use drugs, their loved ones, and their service providers. You can use this information to understand your rights, access services, and find high-quality, evidence-based care. This toolkit was a special collaboration with National Harm Reduction Coalition.

IUDs: Dispelling the Myths

This presentation is a teaching tool that was created for a clinical audience to discuss the pros and cons of hormonal vs. non-hormonal IUD use and the role of higher efficacy, non-user dependent, contraceptive methods like the IUD,

Medically Complex Contraceptive Care

This presentation is a teaching tool that was created for a clinical audience to demonstrate medical contraindications to contraceptive use using the CDC Medical Eligibility Criteria for Initiating Contraception.

Introduction to LARC (Long-Acting Reversible Contraceptives)

This presentation offers a comprehensive overview of the various Long Acting Reversible Contraceptive (LARC) methods for audiences who may not be very familiar with the topic. 

Contraception: Updates on the Evidence

This presentation is a teaching tool was created for a clinical audience to demonstrate how to use WHO/CDC categories for eligibility, how to counsel patients about contraceptive efficacy for successful prevention of unintended pregnancy and to address systems practices which can affect contraceptive initiation and continuation rates.

Best Practice Guide for All-Options Pregnancy Counseling

This all-options pregnancy counseling guide, from Provide, supports providers with step-by-step best practices for walking patients through their options upon receiving a positive pregnancy test, including abortion.

Insights: Options Counseling in Restricted Abortion Access States

Written by Stephanie Mischell The current legal landscape of abortion care is varied and hostile. As more states ban or restrict abortion access, patients are facing more stigma and misinformation when navigating abortion care than ever. As clinicians, it is our duty to advocate for patients by providing nonjudgmental and compassionate options counseling, and accurate…

Pregnancy Options Counseling Model

A model for providing pregnancy options counseling to ambivalent patients.

Contraceptive Pearl: Hormonal IUDs

Written by Samantha Glass Hormonal intrauterine devices (IUDs) have been in use for over thirty years. Levonorgestrel-IUDs prevent pregnancy primarily by inducing a sterile inflammatory response in the uterus that is toxic to sperm and ova, with additional hormonal effects on the endometrium and cervical mucus. There are various hormonal IUD options that are effective…

Mahsa Amini and Iran Protests

RHAP stands with the Iranian people fighting for a life without targeted violence and the right to bodily autonomy. We cannot have true reproductive freedom and justice until everyone, everywhere is able to live a life free from all forms of oppression and violence. We urge our communities to speak out against these injustices happening…