Training the entire healthcare team
reproductive health service corps
We are uplifting and training a new generation to ensure access to essential reproductive healthcare across California.
Training the entire
healthcare team
reproductive health service corps
We are uplifting and training a new generation to ensure access to essential reproductive healthcare across California.
Training the entire healthcare team
reproductive health service corps
We are uplifting and training a new generation to ensure access to essential reproductive healthcare across California.
Training the entire healthcare team
reproductive health service corps
We are uplifting and training a new generation to ensure access to essential reproductive healthcare across California.
what we do
The RHSC consortium develops and implements evidence-based abortion care training programs and strategies with a reproductive justice lens for the entire team of health care professionals.
Each partner has a unique and customized patient-centered care approach to integrating abortion curriculum with local partners and institutions for different types of learners and existing providers.
Learn more about the consortium partners
Learn more about the consortium partners
Learn more about the consortium partners
find Scholarships
Did you know California offers scholarships and loan repayment options to many health care professionals — from EMTs, to doulas, to midwives, and more? Learn about cyclic funding here.
Host A Learner
Join us, and offer your skills, as we prepare the next generation of providers. Funding available for clinics and practices ready to share their expertise.
Get Trained
Looking for a training pathway? Learn about current opportunities and those under development.
Integrate Abortion
Into Your Practice
Need help with the nuts and bolts of how to integrate abortion services? We can help.
About RHSC
About RHSC
The RHSC was formed to create sustainable reproductive health educational pathways for all members of the healthcare workforce using tried and true strategies to address healthcare professional shortages, including primary care.
The RHSC was formed to create sustainable reproductive health educational pathways for all members of the healthcare workforce using tried and true strategies to address healthcare professional shortages, including primary care.
How RHSC Is Making A Difference
The Reproductive Health Service Corps (RHSC) strengthens and diversifies the entire reproductive health care workforce to better serve all communities in California.
Committed to reproductive justice, the RHSC is responsible for training certified nurse-midwives, community health workers, doulas, licensed midwives, licensed vocational nurses, medical assistants, nurse practitioners, paramedics, physician assistants, physicians, and registered nurses. Pharmacists have secured additional state funding outside of this consortium.
“I grew up in the Eastern Sierra, and during my childhood and adolescence the closest clinic that provided abortions was over three hours away. When I returned to the area to practice primary care, I was surprised that access had not improved in the time I’d been away at nursing school. Now that I’m back serving my community, I’m thrilled to be supported in my training to provide local, comprehensive reproductive health care.”
RHSC trainee
“This first-in-the-nation effort to recruit and train reproductive health workers will expand access to vital services for women across California. I am proud to have worked with such an extraordinary coalition of advocates and I am grateful for their tireless efforts to make this program a reality.”
Assemblymember Cottie Petrie-Norris
73rd District
"Abortion is health care — we in primary care specialties should be ready to manage any pregnancy-related needs of our patients, including options counseling, dating ultrasounds, miscarriage management and abortion — both medication and first-trimester aspiration. RHSC offers a unique opportunity for all to learn basic skills that are even more important in an era where many outside of California are denied basic access."
Kelly Pfeifer, MD
Director, Aria Medical
"Each individual deserves access to midwifery-led sexual and reproductive health services. I'm appreciative of California's investment that allows for more people to have access to high quality and evidence based sexual and reproductive health care, education, and training. With the RHSC consortium's forthcoming four years of action, I have high hopes for getting closer to fulfilling Californian’s sexual and reproductive health needs and also inspiring future reproductive health care leaders in the state and beyond."
Asmara Gebre
Black Midwifery Fellowship (BMF)
“We are inspired to reimagine how nursing programs can teach sexual and reproductive healthcare in a way that is inclusive of abortion care, and integrates sexual and reproductive healthcare training across the lifespan.”
Alicia Swartz
California State University, East Bay
“NSRH is excited to be a part of this historic opportunity and looks forward to working with experts across the disciplines to ensure that we are cultivating an Interdisciplinary Healthcare Team able to provide comprehensive sexual and reproductive healthcare to communities throughout CA.”
Lina Buffington
Nurses for Sexual and Reproductive Health
“TEACH is thrilled to lead this historic initiative, and to broaden our program’s reach to include advanced practice clinicians, new fellows, and underserved areas of the state where patients will be better served through the integration of abortion services into primary care.”
Flor Hunt
Training in Early Abortion for Comprehensive Health Care (TEACH)
“I grew up in the Eastern Sierra, and during my childhood and adolescence the closest clinic that provided abortions was over three hours away. When I returned to the area to practice primary care, I was surprised that access had not improved in the time I’d been away at nursing school. Now that I’m back serving my community, I’m thrilled to be supported in my training to provide local, comprehensive reproductive health care.”
RHSC trainee
“This first-in-the-nation effort to recruit and train reproductive health workers will expand access to vital services for women across California. I am proud to have worked with such an extraordinary coalition of advocates and I am grateful for their tireless efforts to make this program a reality.”
Assemblymember Cottie Petrie-Norris
73rd District
"Abortion is health care — we in primary care specialties should be ready to manage any pregnancy-related needs of our patients, including options counseling, dating ultrasounds, miscarriage management and abortion — both medication and first-trimester aspiration. RHSC offers a unique opportunity for all to learn basic skills that are even more important in an era where many outside of California are denied basic access."
Kelly Pfeifer, MD
Director, Aria Medical
"Each individual deserves access to midwifery-led sexual and reproductive health services. I'm appreciative of California's investment that allows for more people to have access to high quality and evidence based sexual and reproductive health care, education, and training. With the RHSC consortium's forthcoming four years of action, I have high hopes for getting closer to fulfilling Californian’s sexual and reproductive health needs and also inspiring future reproductive health care leaders in the state and beyond."
Asmara Gebre
Black Midwifery Fellowship (BMF)
“We are inspired to reimagine how nursing programs can teach sexual and reproductive healthcare in a way that is inclusive of abortion care, and integrates sexual and reproductive healthcare training across the lifespan.”
Alicia Swartz
California State University, East Bay
“NSRH is excited to be a part of this historic opportunity and looks forward to working with experts across the disciplines to ensure that we are cultivating an Interdisciplinary Healthcare Team able to provide comprehensive sexual and reproductive healthcare to communities throughout CA.”
Lina Buffington
Nurses for Sexual and Reproductive Health
“TEACH is thrilled to lead this historic initiative, and to broaden our program’s reach to include advanced practice clinicians, new fellows, and underserved areas of the state where patients will be better served through the integration of abortion services into primary care.”
Flor Hunt
Training in Early Abortion for Comprehensive Health Care (TEACH)
“I grew up in the Eastern Sierra, and during my childhood and adolescence the closest clinic that provided abortions was over three hours away. When I returned to the area to practice primary care, I was surprised that access had not improved in the time I’d been away at nursing school. Now that I’m back serving my community, I’m thrilled to be supported in my training to provide local, comprehensive reproductive health care.”
RHSC trainee
“This first-in-the-nation effort to recruit and train reproductive health workers will expand access to vital services for women across California. I am proud to have worked with such an extraordinary coalition of advocates and I am grateful for their tireless efforts to make this program a reality.”
Assemblymember Cottie Petrie-Norris
73rd District
"Abortion is health care — we in primary care specialties should be ready to manage any pregnancy-related needs of our patients, including options counseling, dating ultrasounds, miscarriage management and abortion — both medication and first-trimester aspiration. RHSC offers a unique opportunity for all to learn basic skills that are even more important in an era where many outside of California are denied basic access."
Kelly Pfeifer, MD
Director, Aria Medical
"Each individual deserves access to midwifery-led sexual and reproductive health services. I'm appreciative of California's investment that allows for more people to have access to high quality and evidence based sexual and reproductive health care, education, and training. With the RHSC consortium's forthcoming four years of action, I have high hopes for getting closer to fulfilling Californian’s sexual and reproductive health needs and also inspiring future reproductive health care leaders in the state and beyond."
Asmara Gebre
Black Midwifery Fellowship (BMF)
“We are inspired to reimagine how nursing programs can teach sexual and reproductive healthcare in a way that is inclusive of abortion care, and integrates sexual and reproductive healthcare training across the lifespan.”
Alicia Swartz
California State University, East Bay
“NSRH is excited to be a part of this historic opportunity and looks forward to working with experts across the disciplines to ensure that we are cultivating an Interdisciplinary Healthcare Team able to provide comprehensive sexual and reproductive healthcare to communities throughout CA.”
Lina Buffington
Nurses for Sexual and Reproductive Health
“TEACH is thrilled to lead this historic initiative, and to broaden our program’s reach to include advanced practice clinicians, new fellows, and underserved areas of the state where patients will be better served through the integration of abortion services into primary care.”
Flor Hunt
Training in Early Abortion for Comprehensive Health Care (TEACH)
“TEACH is thrilled to lead this historic initiative, and to broaden our program’s reach to include advanced practice clinicians, new fellows, and underserved areas of the state where patients will be better served through the integration of abortion services into primary care.”
Flor Hunt
Training in Early Abortion for Comprehensive Health Care (TEACH)
“NSRH is excited to be a part of this historic opportunity and looks forward to working with experts across the disciplines to ensure that we are cultivating an Interdisciplinary Healthcare Team able to provide comprehensive sexual and reproductive healthcare to communities throughout CA.”
Lina Buffington
Nurses for Sexual and Reproductive Health
“We are inspired to reimagine how nursing programs can teach sexual and reproductive healthcare in a way that is inclusive of abortion care, and integrates sexual and reproductive healthcare training across the lifespan.”
Alicia Swartz
California State University, East Bay
"Each individual deserves access to midwifery-led sexual and reproductive health services. I'm appreciative of California's investment that allows for more people to have access to high quality and evidence based sexual and reproductive health care, education, and training. With the RHSC consortium's forthcoming four years of action, I have high hopes for getting closer to fulfilling Californian’s sexual and reproductive health needs and also inspiring future reproductive health care leaders in the state and beyond."
Asmara Gebre
Black Midwifery Fellowship (BMF)
“This first-in-the-nation effort to recruit and train reproductive health workers will expand access to vital services for women across California. I am proud to have worked with such an extraordinary coalition of advocates and I am grateful for their tireless efforts to make this program a reality.”
Assemblymember Cottie Petrie-Norris
73rd District
“I grew up in the Eastern Sierra, and during my childhood and adolescence the closest clinic that provided abortions was over three hours away. When I returned to the area to practice primary care, I was surprised that access had not improved in the time I’d been away at nursing school. Now that I’m back serving my community, I’m thrilled to be supported in my training to provide local, comprehensive reproductive health care.”
RHSC trainee
“This first-in-the-nation effort to recruit and train reproductive health workers will expand access to vital services for women across California. I am proud to have worked with such an extraordinary coalition of advocates and I am grateful for their tireless efforts to make this program a reality.”
Assemblymember Cottie Petrie-Norris
73rd District
"Abortion is health care — we in primary care specialties should be ready to manage any pregnancy-related needs of our patients, including options counseling, dating ultrasounds, miscarriage management and abortion — both medication and first-trimester aspiration. RHSC offers a unique opportunity for all to learn basic skills that are even more important in an era where many outside of California are denied basic access."
Kelly Pfeifer, MD
Director, Aria Medical
"Each individual deserves access to midwifery-led sexual and reproductive health services. I'm appreciative of California's investment that allows for more people to have access to high quality and evidence based sexual and reproductive health care, education, and training. With the RHSC consortium's forthcoming four years of action, I have high hopes for getting closer to fulfilling Californian’s sexual and reproductive health needs and also inspiring future reproductive health care leaders in the state and beyond."
Asmara Gebre
Black Midwifery Fellowship (BMF)
“We are inspired to reimagine how nursing programs can teach sexual and reproductive healthcare in a way that is inclusive of abortion care, and integrates sexual and reproductive healthcare training across the lifespan.”
Alicia Swartz
California State University, East Bay
“NSRH is excited to be a part of this historic opportunity and looks forward to working with experts across the disciplines to ensure that we are cultivating an Interdisciplinary Healthcare Team able to provide comprehensive sexual and reproductive healthcare to communities throughout CA.”
Lina Buffington
Nurses for Sexual and Reproductive Health
“TEACH is thrilled to lead this historic initiative, and to broaden our program’s reach to include advanced practice clinicians, new fellows, and underserved areas of the state where patients will be better served through the integration of abortion services into primary care.”
Flor Hunt
Training in Early Abortion for Comprehensive Health Care (TEACH)
“TEACH is thrilled to lead this historic initiative, and to broaden our program’s reach to include advanced practice clinicians, new fellows, and underserved areas of the state where patients will be better served through the integration of abortion services into primary care.”
Flor Hunt
Training in Early Abortion for Comprehensive Health Care (TEACH)
“NSRH is excited to be a part of this historic opportunity and looks forward to working with experts across the disciplines to ensure that we are cultivating an Interdisciplinary Healthcare Team able to provide comprehensive sexual and reproductive healthcare to communities throughout CA.”
Lina Buffington
Nurses for Sexual and Reproductive Health
“We are inspired to reimagine how nursing programs can teach sexual and reproductive healthcare in a way that is inclusive of abortion care, and integrates sexual and reproductive healthcare training across the lifespan.”
Alicia Swartz
California State University, East Bay
"Each individual deserves access to midwifery-led sexual and reproductive health services. I'm appreciative of California's investment that allows for more people to have access to high quality and evidence based sexual and reproductive health care, education, and training. With the RHSC consortium's forthcoming four years of action, I have high hopes for getting closer to fulfilling Californian’s sexual and reproductive health needs and also inspiring future reproductive health care leaders in the state and beyond."
Asmara Gebre
Black Midwifery Fellowship (BMF)
“This first-in-the-nation effort to recruit and train reproductive health workers will expand access to vital services for women across California. I am proud to have worked with such an extraordinary coalition of advocates and I am grateful for their tireless efforts to make this program a reality.”
Assemblymember Cottie Petrie-Norris
73rd District
in the News
California is investing in preparing health care providers for a world post-Roe, along with other states and universities. We are honored to lock arms and join the innovators.
Dec 15, 2023
CAPRADIO
California is starting a reproductive health corps to increase abortion access across the state
Nov 29, 2023
CA.GOV
California Launches Reproductive Health Services Corps to Expand and Improve Reproductive Care
Feb 26, 2024
UMB NEWS
$10.6M Grant Expands Funding for Abortion Clinical Care Training
Feb 13, 2023
SEATTLE TIMES
New UW program aims to expand training for abortion providers
Jul 18, 2022
LA TIMES
These California nurse-midwives want to provide abortions. They’re struggling to get trained
Dec 15, 2023
CAPRADIO
California is starting a reproductive health corps to increase abortion access across the state
Nov 29, 2023
CA.GOV
California Launches Reproductive Health Services Corps to Expand and Improve Reproductive Care
Feb 26, 2024
UMB NEWS
$10.6M Grant Expands Funding for Abortion Clinical Care Training
Feb 13, 2023
SEATTLE TIMES
New UW program aims to expand training for abortion providers
Jul 18, 2022
LA TIMES
These California nurse-midwives want to provide abortions. They’re struggling to get trained
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© 2024 Reproductive Health Service Corps. All rights reserved.
Website by lover studio.