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Major AmeriCorps Grantee Allowed Members to Provide Abortion-Related Services Prohibited by Law; CNCS Management Undertakes Robust Actions in Response

Date Issued
Report Number
2016‐003
Report Type
Investigation
Description
Between 2013 and 2015, the National Association of Community Health Centers (NACHC), Bethesda, MD, allowed a few AmeriCorps members to provide emotional support (doula care) to women during abortion procedures at three New York City clinics operated by the Institute for Family Health (IFH), a subgrantee. Investigators discovered that NACHC had disregarded the direction of CNCS’s General Counsel in 2010 to include in its training materials and member agreements the abortion prohibition precisely as stated in the Serve America Act.
Joint Report
No
Agency Wide
No
Location(s)

Bethesda, MD
United States

Questioned Costs
$0
Funds for Better Use
$0

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