TEACH (Training in Early Abortion for Comprehensive Healthcare) is an academic community partnership that started in 2003 as a national initiative to address the need for skilled providers.

We partner with Planned Parenthood affiliates, telehealth medication abortion providers, Family Medicine residency programs, and physicians and Advanced Practice Clinicians (APCs) in practice, to train the next generation of clinicians in comprehensive reproductive healthcare. TEACH graduates learn to provide patient centered first-trimester aspiration and medication abortions, pregnancy options counseling, contraceptive choices, prenatal care and miscarriage management, and engage in reproductive health advocacy.

We develop innovative curriculum informed by reproductive justice principles that empower clinicians to provide compassionate, trauma-informed abortion care that centers patients’ autonomy and dignity and advances access to equitable healthcare. This curriculum was adapted and utilized in the foundational state-sponsored research (HWPP #171) that validated APC competence and led directly to landmark policy authorizing APCs to provide abortion care (AB 154). Since our founding, TEACH has been the sole provider of an academic curriculum in abortion provision for Family Doctors and APCs and is used nationally by family medicine residencies and nursing and midwifery programs.

TEACH is developing a new generation of diverse reproductive health champions, with over 1,200 graduates and counting, including family physicians and APC's who are uniquely poised to help expand abortion access in their communities and across the nation. Champions who are trained not just to provide abortions, but also teach the next generation of providers, and resist attacks on reproductive justice.

TEACH-trained providers care for patients near and far, especially in underserved communities. They provide abortion care in California, travel to high-need states like Kansas, and provide medication abortions through Telehealth to patients from all over the country.

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