Program provides reproductive health services and education for teens, by teens

A teen-led program through El Rio Health Center has provided more than 4,000 teenagers with access to reproductive health services and education since 2018, with organizers saying many of those patients would not have sought services elsewhere.

“Teens teaching teens is less awkward than what they teach us in school,” 16-year-old Emily Morel said. “And the adults who we work with don’t undermine us.”