00:02Before she became a mother, endometriosis sufferer and high school teacher Amy Harper struggled to
00:10become pregnant for years. She sought help from the newly opened Milton Pelvic Pain Clinic in
00:162024, just as it started running outreach programs in schools. I was the year advisor
00:22for the girls and I thought it was really important before they left school that they
00:27understood some of these female health concerns. Milton Pelvic Pain Clinic is one of
00:3333 federally funded facilities across the country. It offers a school-based
00:38program created by its lead nurse aimed at speeding up diagnosis of chronic
00:43conditions. I think that the high school visits allow teenagers to see what's
00:50typical or atypical for period symptoms and then access health care sooner. An
00:55anonymous question box is made available so students can ask whatever is on
00:59their mind. When I think back to being a young girl I kind of wish that we had
01:04Susan. It would have saved a lot of millennials, the heartache of so much
01:10pain, so many symptoms. The clinic says dozens of women have accessed it for
01:14treatment and support in the two years since the school outreach program began
01:19in a model unique to Milton. The clinic gave me a TENS machine so they offered
01:25that kind of stuff to me which was great because it helped me go to school like it
01:28helped me go to work. It makes me really happy that I've been able to help a lot
01:33of my students in the next generation be able to understand what's going on.
01:38Arming young women with information about their own health at a key time in their
01:43life.
