The central and southern Illinois regions consist of 78 counties, most of them rural, that are reproductive care deserts (Abortion Finder, 2023; Declercq & Zephyrin, 2021; March of Dimes, 2023; Smith et al., 2022). These two regions have been the site of rising anti-abortion acts of violence since Dobbs (Jiménez, 2023) as well as an ...Read more >

Tuyet Mai Hoang is currently an Assistant Professor in the School of Social Work at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). During her graduate training, she was a recipient of the American Psychological Association’s Predoctoral Fellowship for Minority Health from 2017 to 2019 for her clinical work in addressing mental health disparities for Communities ...Read more >