Our Vision
To see a region where gender equality is everybody’s experience, empowering women and girls to be safe, healthy and thriving.
Our Purpose
We strive to advance gender equality, ensuring the safety and wellbeing of women and girls in our region. We achieve this through advocating for the removal of intersectional barriers, engaging in evidence-based collaboration with our partners and community. Collectively, we raise awareness, enhance capabilities, share information, and lead the way in driving transformational change.
Who is WHISE?
Women’s Health in the South East (WHISE) is a not-for-profit organisation founded in 1992.
WHISE provides promotion, advocacy, support and education services for women’s health in the Southern Metropolitan Region of Melbourne. We work with governments, organisations, education providers, health practitioners and community groups.
WHISE is part of a network of women’s health services across Victoria. The Women’s Health Services Network (WHSN) focuses on empowering women, working to improve health and wellbeing of women within our community.
Photographs of the Southern Metropolitan Region taken by WHISE Staff.