Provide trains health and social service providers to offer non-judgmental, all options counseling to their clients and patients. They work in geographic areas where women and girls have difficulty obtaining full information about their options as well as difficulty accessing critical reproductive health services.
We cannot change everyone's minds to make them pro-choice, and Provide doesn't attempt to. Rather, they have adopted the brilliant strategy of working with healthcare providers - both pro and anti-choice - to remind them of their ethical obligations to their patients and to equip them to offer nonjudgmental counseling and referrals to their patients. I participated in a training and was blown away by the caliber of the trainers.
Review from Guidestar
I have been involved with Provide since it began as the Abortion Access Project in the early 1990's. At that time it was, in my mind, the most forward-thinking, creative, and agile organization in the prochoice movement. I am a midwife and they helped me find a legal way to get training to become an abortion provider. Years later, with the Referrals Project working to change thinking in states with seriously anti-choice climates, Provide continues to be that forward-thinking, creative, agile organization I love.
Review from Guidestar