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Other Campaigns & Policy

Influencing Government

An important part of our work involves bringing together and collaborating with individual women and women's services in Melbourne's Northern metropolitan region and across the state in calling for local Councils and the Victorian State Government to make women's health a priority. Our recent advocacy work is two-fold:

Safe, Well and Connected: Victorian Local Government Action Plan for Women's Health 2008–2012

 

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Raising our voices for women’s health

Women's Health In the North (WHIN) continues to call on Councils and Councillors to implement this action plan for women's health to promote Council leadership on issues affecting the wellbeing of women such as: domestic violence; single parenting; depression, drug and alcohol dependence; and lower incomes and poverty. The plan outlines actions for local councils to improve women's health in their community, including the development of a women's health and wellbeing strategy, involvement in violence against women prevention strategies and support of family-friendly workplace practices.

Read Safe, Well and Connected: Victorian Local Government Action Plan for Women's Health 2008–2012.

Check to see if your local Councillors signed on to Safe, Well and Connected during the 2008 elections.

10 Point Plan for Victorian Women's Health 2010–2014

WHIN is one of 15 Victorian women's health services that have developed a platform for action on women's health through to 2014. This 10 Point Plan builds on the work of Women's Health Matters: From Policy to Practice – Setting the Agenda for Victorian Women's Health 2006–2010.

We want all levels of government and the community and health sectors to endorse this plan and its vision to measurably reduce health inequities for women in Victoria. To add your organisation's name as an endorsee, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

See who else has endorsed the plan.

Campaigning for Positive Change

WHIN's campaign work and advocacy in collaboration with other women's organisations and health and community services in Melbourne's Northern region and across Victoria have brought about positive change for women's health, including:

  • Decriminalisation of abortion;
  • Access to assisted reproductive technology for lesbians; and
  • Establishment of a 24-hour service for women experiencing domestic violence.