Healthcare is complicated.

We help people build the skills to actually use it.

The Healthcare Navigation Project (THNP) is a nonprofit education and training model that equips people with practical, transferable healthcare navigation, communication and self-advocacy skills through active learning and real-world practice.

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We Empower People

  • Healthcare Professionals

    THNP Interprofessional Continuing Education Series™

    Our hands-on seven session continuing education series, gives allied and frontline health professionals practical coaching strategies to help individuals build lifelong communication and self-advocacy skills.

    Jointly provided by The Healthcare Navigation Project and the Weitzman Institute.

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    Youth

    Now What?

    What changes when you move from a pediatrician to an adult doctor? In THNPs hands-on workshops, young people learn how to research doctors and hospitals, get help from a pharmacist, and find trusted mental health resources. They get a chance to work through real-life situations before they have to figure them out on their own.

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    Employees

    We empower adults to equitably find, understand, and actually use their healthcare and make health-related decisions and actions for themselves and others.

    Can your employer match your gift?

    The Healthcare Navigation Project is registered with Benevity and Bonterra’s CyberGrants for workplace giving. Search for The Healthcare Navigation Project in your employer’s giving portal to see if your donation qualifies for a match.

Get street smart.

Learn how to actually use your healthcare before, instead of after when it’s too late.

“Informative, interactive & relevant.”
— Participants, Norwalk, Connecticut
“As a school social worker, I’m well aware of the struggles adolescents face in our challenging healthcare system. Many do not have, or are even aware of the skills they will need. This program changed that for them! ”
— Samantha Yurman, Social Worker, P-TECH
“As a healthcare provider, I now have new skills to offer my patients to give them confidence as they prepare to navigate the healthcare system on their own.”
— Kris Edwards, RN, Yale Student Pediatric Nurse Practitioner