There’s a lot happening this fall with the Reproductive Health Access Network! In addition to the fall gatherings of our current Clusters, we’re also hosting two regional and one national gathering. Coming up the second weekend of October is our Network meeting at Family Medicine Midwest in Indiana, co-hosted by the Midwest Access Project (MAP). A few weeks later, Network members in the Northeast will gather at the Family Medicine Education Consortium (FMEC)’s annual meeting in Pittsburgh. Finally, along with RHEDI, we are hosting our yearly meeting at the North American Forum on Family Planning in November – last year, we had a turnout of nearly 60 pro-choice providers and residents!

Over the past few years, we’ve been working very hard to continue growing the Network, especially on developing new local chapters, or Clusters. That’s why we are so excited to announce that the first-ever meeting of the Chicago Cluster is happening on October 20. RHAP will once again be collaborating with the Midwest Access Project, our partners in the Midwest. Family physicians and other pro-choice primary care providers will come together for dinner and a facilitated discussion on overcoming local and national barriers to providing reproductive health care. We’re so glad to have the Midwest Access Project on the ground, helping us organize and bring folks together to build a strong community of pro-choice primary care providers in Chicago.

We have active Clusters in Baltimore, Eastern Massachusetts/Boston, New Jersey, New York, Philadelphia, Rhode Island, and Vermont. If you live in one of these areas and would like to be connected with your local Cluster, or if you’d like to start a Cluster in your own community, please reach out to our program manager, Laura Riker.