Won’t Go Back Initiative:
Building Access to Abortion in Primary Care
Who are we?
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.
Medication Abortion Access in Primary Care Project ECHO
Project ECHO (Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes)
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.
What is the focus of the 8-session series?
- Key updates on evidence based recommendations for provision of medication abortion and management of early pregnancy and contraceptive care
- ECHO Session topics are listed in the box on the right. The ECHO offers:
- Collaborative learning with didactic and case presentations at each session
- FREE Continuing Medical Education (CME) credits*
Who should attend?
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.
Questions?
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
* The University of Washington School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
Cohort 3, 2025-2026
Download and share our flyer for Cohort 3
Eight sessions: Thursdays
12:00-1:00pm PT (virtual)
Attend one or all in the series, as your schedule allows.
Session topics:
Won’t Go Back – Expanding Medication Abortion Access in the Primary Care Setting
- Pregnancy Options Counseling Through a Reproductive Justice Lens
- Clinical Considerations for Diagnosis and Initial Assessment of New Pregnancy
- The How To of Medication Abortion & Management of Early Pregnancy Loss
- 3/12: Considerations for Follow up After Medication Abortion
- 4/2: Innovative Models of Medication Abortion in Primary Care, including teleMAB models
- 5/14: Implementing Abortion Care in Primary Care: Engaging Staff, Administrators, and Colleagues to Provide Care
- 6/11: Empowering the De-medicalization of Abortion Care and Self-Managed Abortion
Medication Abortion Access in Primary Care Virtual Learning Collaborative (VLC)
VLC Cohort 1: March-August 2025
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 is supporting clinics to provide medication abortion and early pregnancy loss care in primary care settings.
Cohort 2: 2026: MAB@UW
- Connection and collaboration
- Creative problem solving across UW sites and departments
- Learning from one another’s experiences, challenges, and successes
- Community building with other reproductive health champions