Women's Health Specialists is dedicated to working with women and men in our own communities to further social justice and equality, reproductive rights and accessibility to health care. Unfortunately, it is not uncommon for women’s health issues to be absent from the agenda at community, statewide, national and international meetings. As a result, the voices of rural and low-income women are seldom heard. WHS participates on a local, statewide, national, and international level to promote women’s health issues and protect women’s reproductive rights.

 

Staff, board members, and volunteers frequently attend conferences and events to further advance the status of women and address social inequalities in our local communities and beyond. Women's Health Specialists' mission not only guides us in our local community work, but in a broader vision of community that seeks equality extending beyond state lines and international borders.

Women's Health Specialists staff attended the SisterSong National Membership Meeting, The Color of Power-Voices for Change.

 

Our staff conducted several self-help groups for SisterSong members, and attended other members workshops.

 

Workshop highlights included: Immigrant Rights and Reproductive Justice, Birth Justice (focus on unessary interventions and caesarean sections, and a community based model for healthy children), Reproductive Justice, and Incarcerated Women's Rights and Protections. WHS staff also attended legislative meetings with aides to Senator Barbara Boxer, Senator Feinstein, and Representative Lynn Woolsey. WHS staff also visited the new Embassy of Tribal Nations, and the National Women's Health Network. Approximately 400 women attended the conference, which focuses on mobilizing for reproductive justice for women-of-color.

The Minister of Health of Caracas hosted a meeting in 2006, in which we shared our medical protocols to aid in their struggle to prevent post-abortion complications.

WHS Staff attends the 2004 "March for Women's Lives" Washington, DC