abortion training pathways

abortion training pathways

Explore Your Pathway in Abortion Care

Explore Your Pathway in Abortion Care

Explore Your Pathway in Abortion Care

Rooted in a reproductive justice framework, this guide helps you find the training, mentorship, and resources you need — wherever you are in your healthcare journey.

Rooted in a reproductive justice framework, this guide helps you find the training, mentorship, and resources you need — wherever you are in your healthcare journey.

The Pathways

Every healthcare provider — whether a Physician, Nurse Practitioner, Midwife, or Physician Associate — plays a vital role in ensuring access for patients seeking reproductive health care.

Every healthcare provider — whether a Physician, Nurse Practitioner, Midwife, or Physician Associate — plays a vital role in ensuring access for patients seeking reproductive health care.

pLANTING THE SEEDS

Five Seeds of Care

Five Seeds of Care

Five Seeds of Care

Just as each papaya starts as a seed, each professional pathway is a unique journey, with limitless potential. Although the future is unknown, guidance is available as you contemplate how to become an abortion provider.

Just as each papaya starts as a seed, each professional pathway is a unique journey, with limitless potential. Although the future is unknown, guidance is available as you contemplate how to become an abortion provider.

Cultivate Awareness

Engage early with reproductive justice, ethics, and community-centered learning to build a foundation for compassionate abortion care.

Engage early with reproductive justice, ethics, and community-centered learning to build a foundation for compassionate abortion care.

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Root In Community

Deepen your understanding of reproductive health by connecting directly with clinics, advocates, and community-based organizations.

Deepen your understanding of reproductive health by connecting directly with clinics, advocates, and community-based organizations.

2

Grow Through Training

Strengthen your clinical and procedural skills by seeking comprehensive SRH education, advocacy opportunities, and structured training experiences.

Strengthen your clinical and procedural skills by seeking comprehensive SRH education, advocacy opportunities, and structured training experiences.

3

Flourish In Practice

Advance your career through lifelong learning, mentorship, and policies that expand equitable access to abortion and reproductive health.

Advance your career through lifelong learning, mentorship, and policies that expand equitable access to abortion and reproductive health.

4

Lead and Advocate

Use your expertise to influence systems, shape policy, and lead interdisciplinary efforts that protect and expand reproductive freedom.

Use your expertise to influence systems, shape policy, and lead interdisciplinary efforts that protect and expand reproductive freedom.

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Learn, Connect, and Take Action

Learn, Connect, and Take Action

Learn, Connect, and Take Action

These resources offer training, tools, and community spaces that support your growth as a provider and advocate in a rapidly changing landscape.

These resources offer training, tools, and community spaces that support your growth as a provider and advocate in a rapidly changing landscape.

Together, We Grow

Together, We Grow

Together, We Grow

Reproductive Justice isn’t one career or credential. It’s a shared commitment.

Reproductive Justice isn’t one career or credential. It’s a shared commitment.

The Seeds of Care framework reminds us that by cultivating awareness, rooting in community, growing through training, and flourishing in practice, every provider helps the papaya (our shared system of reproductive care) thrive.

The Seeds of Care framework reminds us that by cultivating awareness, rooting in community, growing through training, and flourishing in practice, every provider helps the papaya (our shared system of reproductive care) thrive.