Our Vision
To improve the health and well-being of women in the Southern Metropolitan Region within a Social Model of Health and within a feminist perspective.
Our Mission
- To provide a range of services that acknowledges the diversity of women and their total well-being
- To be accessible to all women in a safe and women-friendly environment
- To promote best practice in health service delivery for marginalised women, both in specialised and in mainstream service providers.
Our Goals
- Advocacy: Achieving system and policy change
- Health Promotion: Achieving best practice in Health Promotion especially to marginalised women
- Well-being Promotion: Improving community participation and social connectedness.
Our Strategies
- Working with key State, Commonwealth and regional groups, to inform and advocate government on policy improvements and service system changes
- Providing services directly to women in the community, using our expertise on equity and access for women from the most marginalised groups in society
- Working directly with women to promote health and well-being via the provision of information, education, self help and their inclusion in decision making processes
- Providing services to ‘mainstream’ service providers to help them more effectively meet the needs of women most at risk
- Maintaining the staff, resources, and infrastructure at the level necessary to achieve the goals.