WHISE works at several levels, in advocating for improved health and wellbeing opportunities and services for women in the Southern Metropolitan Region.

These levels include:

Policy change: 
Advocating to State, Federal and local governments for policy development, service improvements, and other issues, especially for women in the Southern Metropolitan Region.

Service system change: 
Working with our service partners and organisations, to help them make their own services more accessible and friendly to women with disabilities, women with complex conditions and needs, women from different CALD backgrounds, women with mental health issues, women with drug and/or alcohol dependency, women experiencing family and/or domestic violence.

Community and cultural change: 
Working with newly arrived communities from CALD backgrounds, with long-established communities, and with the general public, to improve understanding and interaction between people, especially assisting women to develop strong and positive links with their communities and neighbours

Family and relationships change: 
Working with families and individual women, to strengthen understanding of how people behave, to improve and strengthen family relationships, and to help women and their partners develop more positive and respectful relationships, and to model these improved relationships to their children

Self change: 
Working with individual women, to help them understand and analyse their own strengths, skills and abilities, to help them identify personal goals, and to work with them to achieve those goals.

Advocacy work may be initiated by our clients, communities, staff, service partners – anyone who sees a problem or lack, and wishes to help improve our society, for the benefit of all.

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Contact CEO for any issues of concern, that you believe WHISE could take up on your behalf.