The Won’t Go Back Initiative (WGB) is a University of Washington program to mentor and support primary care clinicians and staff to implement or grow abortion and reproductive health services in UW Medicine, the WWAMI (WA, WY, AK, MT, ID) region, and the Pacific Northwest. It is a virtual community with interdisciplinary exchange of expertise, guidance, and feedback.
Over the last two decades, Project ECHO has empowered frontline health care professionals with best practices to improve patient outcomes in the communities where they live. The ECHO model emphasizes case-based learning with brief didactic topics.
Primary care clinicians, nurses, medical assistants, clinic staff, public health professionals, pharmacists, administrative staff. Clinicians, allied health providers, administrators, and staff of all specialties as well as community partners have been included in the WGB Project ECHO to create a nimble and robust community, advocating and preparing for safe and legal abortion care.
Contact Won’t Go Back Initiative’s project manager, Dinah Aldrich, at dinaha@uw.edu.
WGB Team led by:
Ying Zhang MD, MPH, FAAFP & Anna Fiastro, PhD, MPH, MEM
University of Washington Family Medicine Won’t Go Back (WGB) Initiative, in collaboration with RHAP (Reproductive Health Access Project), a national project to mobilize, train, and support clinicians to make sexual and reproductive health care accessible to everyone, launched the first cohort (10 sites) of the Medication Abortion Access in Primary Care Learning Collaborative in March 2025. The learning collaborative supports clinics to provide medication abortion and early pregnancy loss care in primary care settings.