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In 2013, NIRH worked with the South Carolina Coalition for Healthy Families, a network of organizations that advocates, educates, and collaborates to expand access to sexual and reproductive health information, services, and rights for all South Carolinians. Achieving the goals of enhancing accessibility, affordability, and availability of the full range…

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In 2017, NIRH worked with Consumers for Affordable Health Care (CAHC) to lead implementation of a new limited family planning benefit (LFPB) for MaineCare, which expands access to family planning care for low-income Mainers, by engaging in outreach, direct application assistance, and ongoing advocacy. CAHC educated 7,500 Mainers and trained…

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Community of Hope and MedStar Washington Hospital Center worked on implementing immediate postpartum LARC at the Family Health and Birth Center, with hopes of providing a model for other free-standing birth centers. Their multi-pronged approach included standardizing operations, training midwives, and creating evaluation mechanisms to ensure sustainability. MedStar Washington Hospital…

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Medstar Washington Hospital Center is the largest private hospital in Washington, D.C. From 2019-2020, NIRH partnered with Medstar and Community of Hope, a group working to combat homelessness in D.C., to implement a practice of providing immediate postpartum LARC at the Family Health and Birth Center, with hopes of providing…

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With our support, in 2015 the Young Women’s Project drove the process of revision of the Washington, D.C. State Learning Standards for Health Education on sexual health, mental health, and violence. In partnership with young people from across Washington, D.C., the Young Women’s Project submitted a draft of health standards…

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The Black Doula Project, a fund that subsidizes doula costs for Black families in the Baltimore and D.C. area, was founded by two Black women doulas with the objective of improving maternal health education by and for pregnant Black people. NIRH supported The Black Doula Project in developing and launching…

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From 2018-2020, NIRH and the Hawaii Maternal & Infant Health Collaborative (HMIHC) worked on statewide systems change to ensure access to LARC in the inpatient hospital setting. HMIHC developed buy-and-bill programs in two hospitals in an effort to create sustainable models for immediate postpartum LARC access. This effort will especially…

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NIRH worked with the Native American Community Board (NACB) in Oklahoma, New Mexico, South Dakota in 2015 to launch an education and media campaign in around newly written policies that require that Emergency Contraceptive/Plan B® be available over-the-counter at all Indian Health Service (IHS) units. NACB hosted meetings across the…

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In the wake of Dr. George Tiller’s assassination on May 31, 2009, Julie Burkhart founded Trust Women Foundation in order to honor his legacy and to continue fighting for reproductive rights. At the time of his murder, Dr. Tiller was one of the few physicians in the United States who…

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NIRH worked with the Native American Community Board (NACB) in Oklahoma, New Mexico, South Dakota in 2015 to launch an education and media campaign in around newly written policies that require that Emergency Contraceptive/Plan B® be available over-the-counter at all Indian Health Service (IHS) units. NACB hosted meetings across the…

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In 2017, North Dakota Women in Need Fund (ND WIN) lobbied state legislators at the WE RISE: Lobby Day, advocating for reproductive rights and health, with NIRH partner North Dakota Women’s Network. ND WIN also engaged in critical strategic planning and organizing to build towards the organization’s goals for 2018…

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In 2017, North Dakota Women’s Network (NDWN) strengthened its grassroots and grasstops base by working in collaboration with NIRH partner North Dakota Women in Need Fund to build power, and hosting community events to shift the culture around abortion access and reproductive health, rights, and justice in the state. NDWN…

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In the wake of Dr. George Tiller’s assassination on May 31, 2009, Julie Burkhart founded Trust Women Foundation in order to honor his legacy and to continue fighting for reproductive rights. At the time of his murder, Dr. Tiller was one of the few physicians in the United States who…

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NIRH worked with the Wyoming Department of Health from 2019-2020 to improve access to LARC at federally qualified health centers (FQHCs) and rural health clinics (RHCs). After working together to successfully complete a cost analysis of Medicaid reimbursement policy changes, policies are now in place for FQHCs and RHCs to…

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Converge was co-founded by two Mississippi women with many labels but a shared vision for what could be: what if all people, no matter where they live, whom they love, what they look like, or how much money they have could access family planning care that’s right for them? What…

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The Prison Birth Project focused on documenting and improving the conditions for pregnant and parenting people who were incarcerated. NIRH is proud to have partnered with Prison Birth Project since 2014, working on the passage and implementation of Massachusetts’ 2014 anti-shackling policy. In 2015 the Prison Birth Project, with the…

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NIRH partnered with CityMatCH from 2018-2020 to lead the Well Women, Well Communities Project addressing systemic barriers to high-quality preventative care. The San Antonio Well Woman Coalition brought together advocacy organizations and community members to form a community advisory boards (CAB) with the goal of fostering stronger relationships and tailoring…

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Boys and Girls Club of Portland Metropolitan Area (BGCP) works to empower all young people, especially those who need us most, to discover their full potential as caring, engaged, responsible community members. NIRH partnered with BGCP in 2016 to create and implement a reproductive health advocacy campaign in the Hillsboro…

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NIRH partnered with NARAL Pro-Choice Montana for several years. In 2010, we helped NARAL Pro-Choice Montana host roundtables in Missoula and Helena in support of comprehensive sex education, resulting in passage of comprehensive sex education curricula by the school boards in both communities. In 2013, the NIRH partnered with NARAL…

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NIRH partnered with the Family Health Council of Central Pennsylvania (FHCCP) in 2017 to advocate for comprehensive, LGBTQ-affirming sexuality education. FHCCP collaborated with the LGBT Center of Central Pennsylvania to engage LGBT youth as advocates for sexuality education in their communities. Nearly 130 young people received comprehensive sex education and…

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The North Carolina Survivors Union (NCSU) is a community-led organization comprised of people directly impacted by substance use. NIRH worked with NCSU in an initiative focused on the rights of pregnant women, transgender men, and others who can become pregnant who use drugs or are coping with substance use disorder.…

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Surge Reproductive Justice worked for three years to gather stories of people negatively impacted by discriminatory health care policies like the Hyde Amendment and the five-year bar on immigrants’ access to federally funded health care. In 2018, NIRH supported Surge in calling for dedicated funding from the City of Seattle…

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NIRH has worked with WV FREE for many years to improve abortion access in West Virginia. In 2011, WV FREE led a successful effort to pass an insurance exchange bill without any reproductive health care restrictions, including restrictions on abortion coverage. With our support, their work focused on legislative officials,…

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NIRH has worked with WV FREE for many years to improve abortion access in West Virginia. In 2011, WV FREE led a successful effort to pass an insurance exchange bill without any reproductive health care restrictions, including restrictions on abortion coverage. With our support, their work focused on legislative officials,…

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NIRH has worked with WV FREE for many years to improve abortion access in West Virginia. In 2011, WV FREE led a successful effort to pass an insurance exchange bill without any reproductive health care restrictions, including restrictions on abortion coverage. With our support, their work focused on legislative officials,…

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In 2017, Pro-Choice NC launched a grassroots campaign in support of a local resolution calling for the repeal of federal and state abortion coverage bans as a step towards economic and reproductive justice in Durham County. Pro-Choice NC kicked off their campaign during the BOLD the Future Week of Action…

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NIRH partnered with Pro-Choice Maryland to establish Reproductive Justice Commissions in one city and one municipality in their state. Modeled on the successful campaign that established an RJ Commission in Atlanta, also an NIRH partnership initiative, these RJ Commissions consist of community-based activists, direct service providers, policy advocates, and others…

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Reproductive Justice Inside is a statewide project in Maryland to address the needs of systems-involved individuals seeking quality and timely sexual and reproductive healthcare in order to engage in authentic family planning and parenting with dignity. Reproductive Justice Inside (RJ Inside) works with and for systems-involved individuals to improve their…

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All-Options provides direct services and uses social change strategies to promote unconditional, judgment-free support for people experiencing pregnancy, parenting, abortion, and adoption. In 2019, All-Options hosted tours for community organizations and leaders at their Bloomington center, and worked with NIRH to create a city scorecard for Bloomington. In 2020, NIRH…

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NIRH worked with Women with a Vision to use their community mobilization model to convene Black women leaders in Baton Rouge, Lafayette, New Orleans, and Shreveport for a series of four community-focused Reproductive Justice Roundtables. Drawing on the conversations and brainstorming that took place at these events, Women with a…

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In 2021, NIRH worked with SISTA Fire in their mission to dynamically address the systemic racism and maternal health crises faced by Black womxn, womxn of color, and their children in Rhode Island, including the particular challenges for those giving birth in the state. NIRH joined with SISTA Fire in…

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In 2015, NIRH worked with Tewa Women United to strengthen its successful A’Gin Healthy Sexuality/Body Sovereignty Project in the Tewa Homelands of New Mexico, an interactive curriculum that fosters healthy decision-making about sex and sexuality among Native tribal youth. Tewa engaged youth facilitators and incorporated a youth advocacy component to…

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SisterReach empowers young people to lead healthy lives, raise healthy families, and live in healthy and sustainable communities by using a four-pronged strategy of education, policy and advocacy, culture change, and harm reduction. In 2013, NIRH partnered to help SisterReach create its SisterReach’s Youth Ambassadors (SYAs) program, a youth-led group…

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In 2017, the New Mexico Perinatal Collaborative, Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains, Southwest Women’s Law Center (SWLC), and Young Women United are continuing their work, begun in 2016 with support from NIRH, to increase access to LARC while preventing coercion. By assessing the current state of LARC access in…

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Bold Futures leads policy change, research, place-based organizing, and culture shift by and for women and people of color in New Mexico. In 2013, Bold Futures participated as a leader in the Respect ABQ Women campaign, which successfully defeated an Albuquerque ballot measure that would have banned abortion after twenty…

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NIRH worked with Women with a Vision to use their community mobilization model to convene Black women leaders in Baton Rouge, Lafayette, New Orleans, and Shreveport for a series of four community-focused Reproductive Justice Roundtables. Drawing on the conversations and brainstorming that took place at these events, Women with a…

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NIRH supported 2015 efforts by El Pueblo to advocate for comprehensive sex education in Wake County, N.C., under the Healthy Youth Act, which requires local communities to utilize an unbiased and evidence-based sex education curriculum. Focusing on schools that have a high concentration of Latino students, El Pueblo practiced intergenerational…

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In 2017, Pro-Choice NC launched a grassroots campaign in support of a local resolution calling for the repeal of federal and state abortion coverage bans as a step towards economic and reproductive justice in Durham County. Pro-Choice NC kicked off their campaign during the BOLD the Future Week of Action…

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The Lilith Fund is an abortion fund, meaning it helps people pay for abortion care when they cannot afford it. NIRH has worked with the Lilith Fund for many years on advocacy efforts at the state level in Texas and in localities across the state. In 2015, NIRH partnered with…

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Founded in 1995, the Texas Freedom Network (TFN) is a nonpartisan, grassroots organization of more than 150,000 religious and community leaders who support religious freedom, individual liberties and public education. Based in Austin, TFN acts as the state’s watchdog for monitoring far-right issues, organizations, money and leaders. The organization has…

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NIRH has worked with Avow (formerly NARAL Pro-Choice Texas) for more than a decade to help build the support system for abortion advocacy and care in Texas. At the state level, Avow has led the charge on the ground to fight for abortion access and reproductive justice. In 2015, Avow…

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The West Fund West Fund works to make abortions accessible and affordable to people in west Texas. NIRH began working with the West Fund in 2017, along with Lilith Fund, Avow, and the Texas Equal Access (TEA) Fund to implement a coordinated, multi-city strategy to advance abortion access and build…

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The Denver Teen Pregnancy Prevention Partnership was a nonprofit focused on teen pregnancy prevention and youth sexual health. In 2009, NIRH worked with the Denver Teen Pregnancy Prevention Project to successfully advocate for unanimous passage of a resolution by the Denver Public Schools Board of Education supporting comprehensive sex education.

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Cobalt (formerly NARAL Pro-Choice Colorado) is a leading advocacy group in Colorado that fights for reproductive health, rights and justice. In 2019, NIRH worked with Cobalt and COLOR to advance policies that would ensure that all Coloradans, including young people, low-income communities, people of color, public service employees, immigrants, and…

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Colorado Organization for Latina Opportunity and Reproductive Rights (COLOR) is a community-rooted organization that works to enable Latinx individuals and their families to lead safe, healthy and self-determined lives. COLOR works to ensure that Latinx individuals and their families are accessing opportunities and resources for the health of mind, body,…

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NIRH worked with CityMatCH from 2018-2020 to lead the Well Women, Well Communities Project addressing systemic barriers to high-quality preventative care. The Coconino County Well Woman Coalition brought together advocacy organizations and community members to form a community advisory boards (CAB) with the goal of fostering stronger relationships and tailoring…

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Founded in 2005, the California Healthy Nail Salon Collaborative is a statewide grassroots organization that addresses health, environmental, reproductive justice, and other social issues faced by its low-income, female, Vietnamese immigrant and refugee workforce. In 2010, NIRH partnered with the California Healthy Nail Salon Collaborative to successfully advocate for passage…

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In 2010, NIRH worked with the California School Health Centers Association in Oakland to host a Policymaker Leadership Institute for school board members from cities across California on comprehensive sexual health education.

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Founded in 1989, Asian Communities for Reproductive Justice (ACRJ) has been at the forefront of building a Reproductive Justice Movement that places the reproductive health and rights of Asian women and girls within a social justice framework. ACRJ promotes and protects reproductive justice through organizing, building leadership capacity, developing alliances, and…

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ACCESS REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE (ACCESS RJ) removes barriers and builds the power of Californians to achieve reproductive justice. Despite the few legal restrictions on abortion in California, thousands of people still find it nearly impossible to act on these rights or obtain reproductive health care without a struggle. ACCESS RJ believes that reproductive…

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Founded in 1967 by a small group of doctors, clergy, and community members to assist Minnesota women in accessing abortion care – Our Justice works to provide people with the resources they need now, while also advocating for policy change that would make these resources more available and remove many…

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Aid to Inmate Mothers provides services to Alabama’s incarcerated women with emphasis on enhancing personal growth and strengthening the bonds between inmate mothers and their children. In 2010, Aid to Inmate Mothers implemented a program in Montgomery, AL, that offered reproductive health education courses in prison and connected women to…

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Since 1974, Arizona Family Health Partnership (AFHP) has been a private, nonprofit organization dedicated to making reproductive healthcare and education available and accessible to all individuals in Arizona, particularly those lacking resources and traditionally reluctant to seek health care. AFHP helps coordinate the services funded by the federal Title X program and…

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Reproductive Equity Arizona (REA) was a new organization launched in 2019 formed to galvanize support for reproductive justice work across Arizona. With support and guidance from NIRH, REA dove into this work through a coalition-building initiative with ally organizations who lead work on issues such as immigrant, economic, racial, and…

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NIRH supported ACT for Women and Girls’ 2015 efforts to advocate for comprehensive sex education in rural Tulare County, the most conservative region of California. ACT positioned youth as leaders and advocates in the relaunch of their sex ed campaign with the new name, “Plan A: Sex Ed for All,”…

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In 2013, NIRH supported the Institute for Women and Ethnic Studies in educating youth, adult stakeholders, and New Orleans residents about comprehensive sex education. The Institute for Women and Ethnic Studies also developed advocacy curricula and began efforts to evaluate implementation in various charter school networks.

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NIRH worked with Women with a Vision to use their community mobilization model to convene Black women leaders in Baton Rouge, Lafayette, New Orleans, and Shreveport for a series of four community-focused Reproductive Justice Roundtables. Drawing on the conversations and brainstorming that took place at these events, Women with a…

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Legal Services for Prisoners with Children (LSPC) organizes communities impacted by the criminal justice system and advocates to release incarcerated people, to restore human and civil rights, and to reunify families and communities. We build public awareness of structural racism in policing, the courts, and the prison system, and we…

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Founded in 1995, the Texas Freedom Network (TFN) is a nonpartisan, grassroots organization of more than 150,000 religious and community leaders who support religious freedom, individual liberties and public education. Based in Austin, TFN acts as the state’s watchdog for monitoring far-right issues, organizations, money and leaders. The organization has…

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The West Fund West Fund works to make abortions accessible and affordable to people in west Texas. NIRH began working with the West Fund in 2017, along with Lilith Fund, Avow, and the Texas Equal Access (TEA) Fund to implement a coordinated, multi-city strategy to advance abortion access and build…

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The Lilith Fund is an abortion fund, meaning it helps people pay for abortion care when they cannot afford it. NIRH has worked with the Lilith Fund for many years on advocacy efforts at the state level in Texas and in localities across the state. In 2015, NIRH partnered with…

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Whole Woman’s Health Alliance (WWHA) is both an independent abortion clinic offering personalized, high-quality abortion care, as well asa strong advocate and community pillar, becoming the voice of reproductive justice in many communities where the state has attacked the reproductive healthcare system, creating an environment that forces women to feel…

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NIRH worked with Women with a Vision to use their community mobilization model to convene Black women leaders in Baton Rouge, Lafayette, New Orleans, and Shreveport for a series of four community-focused Reproductive Justice Roundtables. Drawing on the conversations and brainstorming that took place at these events, Women with a…

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Founded in 1995, the Texas Freedom Network (TFN) is a nonpartisan, grassroots organization of more than 150,000 religious and community leaders who support religious freedom, individual liberties and public education. Based in Austin, TFN acts as the state’s watchdog for monitoring far-right issues, organizations, money and leaders. The organization has…

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The Texas Equal Access Fund (TEA Fund) provides emotional and financial support to people who are seeking abortion care. Starting in 2015, NIRH partnered with the TEA Fund to develop a public awareness campaign, including a partnership with the local arts community, on the need for public funding of abortion care, while…

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Memphis Teen Vision (MemTV) is a collaborative effort comprised of Memphis community organizations, agencies, and providers addressing sexual health disparities of pregnant and parenting teens in Shelby County. In 2011, with NIRH’s support, MemTV developed a guide to teen-friendly reproductive health care providers in Memphis — the first of its…

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SisterReach empowers young people to lead healthy lives, raise healthy families, and live in healthy and sustainable communities by using a four-pronged strategy of education, policy and advocacy, culture change, and harm reduction. In 2013, NIRH partnered to help SisterReach create its SisterReach’s Youth Ambassadors (SYAs) program, a youth-led group…

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In 2012, MI LOLA (Miami) hosted “A Community Conversation on Women’s Reproductive Health,” a roundtable for activists, academics, students, and health care providers. The event focused on the role of religion, health policy, and providers in abortion access, with an emphasis on the barriers faced by Latinas.

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Southern Birth Justice Network (SBJN) is a community organization committed to providing accessible and quality holistic birth care to Black, indigenous, and people of color, LGBTQIA+ individuals, low-income people, and other marginalized communities. In 2019, SBJN partnered with NIRH to expand the Birth Justice movement in South Florida through public…

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MOASH mobilizes youth voices, engages community partners, and informs decision-makers to advance sexual health, identities, and rights across Michigan. NIRH began partnering with MOASH in 2015 to implement its Michigan Youth Rights initiative to reduce the harm of the state’s forced parental consent for abortion law, while also building a…

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Since 2004, Teen HYPE has reached more than 35,000 Detroit-area youth with programming designed to help prepare them for the world. In 2010, NIRH worked with Teen HYPE to create and distribute a guide to teen-friendly health care providers in Detroit.

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In 2010, with support from NIRH, the Milwaukee Public Schools Foundation developed an evaluation tool for their Human Growth and Development curriculum and expanded the number of schools and classrooms receiving the curriculum across Milwaukee.

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Pro-Choice Ohio is committed to develop and sustain a constituency that uses the political process to guarantee every Ohioan the right to make personal decisions regarding a full range of reproductive choices, including preventing unintended pregnancy, bearing healthy children, and choosing legal abortion. NIRH has worked with Pro-Choice Ohio (formerly…

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MOASH mobilizes youth voices, engages community partners, and informs decision-makers to advance sexual health, identities, and rights across Michigan. NIRH began partnering with MOASH in 2015 to implement its Michigan Youth Rights initiative to reduce the harm of the state’s forced parental consent for abortion law, while also building a…

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In 2009, the Minnesota Organization on Adolescent Pregnancy, Prevention and Parenting implemented a science-based, comprehensive sex education curriculum to pilot in middle and high schools.

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Minnesota is a state with the potential to address a core inequity in access to reproductive health care – cost. In 2022, NIRH is supporting Whole Woman’s Health Alliance, a non-profit organization committed to providing holistic reproductive care for its patients, to educate legislators on the implications of low Medicaid…

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Amplify Georgia Collaborative (Amplify) is a collective of seven BIPOC-led reproductive justice organizations and allies seeking to expand abortion access and reproductive health care in Georgia. In partnership with NIRH, Amplify will promote the Reproductive Freedom Act in cities outside of Atlanta that have wide representation of their primary base:…

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SisterSong is a Southern based, national membership organization whose purpose is to build an effective network of individuals and organizations to improve institutional policies and systems that impact the reproductive lives of marginalized communities. NIRH has worked for many years with SisterSong both independently and as part of various Georgia…

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Feminist Women’s Health Center (FWHC) is a leading provider of abortion and full-spectrum reproductive health care, and advocacy organization in Atlanta, Georgia. NIRH has worked with FWHC for many years to promote proactive legislation grounded in the reproductive justice framework in Georgia. In 2019, FWHC and SPARK Reproductive Justice NOW…

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NIRH partnered with CityMatCH from 2018-2020 to lead the Well Women, Well Communities Project addressing systemic barriers to high-quality preventative care. The San Antonio Well Woman Coalition brought together advocacy organizations and community members to form a community advisory boards (CAB) with the goal of fostering stronger relationships and tailoring…

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From 2018-2020, NIRH partnered with CityMatCH to lead the Well Women, Well Communities Project addressing systemic barriers to high-quality preventative care. The Washtenaw County Well Woman Coalition brought together advocacy organizations and community members to form a community advisory boards (CAB) with the goal of fostering stronger relationships and tailoring…

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MOASH mobilizes youth voices, engages community partners, and informs decision-makers to advance sexual health, identities, and rights across Michigan. NIRH began partnering with MOASH in 2015 to implement its Michigan Youth Rights initiative to reduce the harm of the state’s forced parental consent for abortion law, while also building a…

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In 2012, NIRH worked with Planned Parenthood of the Heartland to engage policymakers on abortion access in Omaha, discussing barriers to abortion training and provision in medical schools and beyond.