The Reproductive Health Coalition (RHC) is a wide-range of health professional associations and allied organizations who advocate with a unified voice to protect access to essential reproductive care. The tenets of this work include: a patient’s right to dignity, autonomy, privacy, and the expectation of a trusted relationship with their clinician; protection of the clinician’s ethical obligation to provide care, including their access to comprehensive training; and a commitment to an evidence-based approach to policy and practice.
The RHC is launching this fellowship program to build advocacy skills to navigate complex discussions around reproductive healthcare. As a RHC Fellow, you will learn how to lean into your caregiving experience and effectively communicate how to depolarize abortion conversations, allowing listeners to let down their defenses and uncover ambivalences they may not have been aware of. This creates the conditions for audiences to really hear us rather than shut us out. Importantly, it also creates the conditions for people to shift, and become more supportive of abortion care.
Requirements:
- Commitment to completing all of the following Train the Trainer sessions:
- Part I: Up-Lifting Shared Values [2-hours] of the RHC Training (these will be offered several times a month)
- Part II: Demonstrating Care [5.5-hours - offered in two parts] of the RHC Training (these will be held at least once a month)
- Providing a minumum of four Part I trainings to colleagues and other organizations. (Assistance will be provided in scheduling these trainings.)
- Providing a minumum of two Part II trainings to colleagues and other organizations. (Assistance will be provided in scheduling these trainings.)
- Write and have published one Op-Ed for a local/regional newspaper.
- Present at, or moderate a RHC Lunch & Learn or Evening Livestream on a topic related to access and messaging around abortion care.
- Schedule and hold at least one legislative visit with one of your policy-makers (state or federal) to discuss access to abortion. [Share a photo as evidence of the meeting.]
- Do any one of the following: attend a legislative committee hearing, give testimony, meet with committee staff, submit public comments, develop a RHC fact sheet, toolkit or issue brief.
Click here for additional RHC Fellowship Program requirements.
All requirements must be COMPLETED by July 19, 2026 to successfully complete the RHC Fellowship program!