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.
Acknowledging our partners and stakeholders
In addition to the work that WHISE leads, our team are proud to represent our organisation, our mission and the needs of women in our region in the various committees and advisory groups across our region. This is key to advancing our mission, delivering health promotion messages and supporting strong partnerships.
- Bayside Integrated Community Safety Committee
- Bayside Peninsula Integrated Family Violence Partnership
- Beachside Wellbeing Network
- Cardinia Shire Council - Together We Can
- Cardinia Shire Youth Network
- Chisholm TAFE PVAW Working Group
- City of Casey Community Safety Meeting
- City of Casey Relief and Recovery Network
- City of Greater Dandenong Community Safety Advisory Committee
- City of Greater Dandenong Preventing Family Violence Committee
- City of Greater Dandenong Youth Network
- City of Port Phillip Multicultural Advisory Committee
- Community Health - Health Promotion Network and Advisory Group
- Frankston Youth Network
- Frankston Family Violence Steering Committee
- Gender Equality Training Sub Committee
- Glen Eira Community Safety Committee
- Greater South East Melbourne (GSEM)
- Greater Dandenong Youth Network
- Inner South Multicultural Issues Network
- International Students Sexual Health Network
- Kingston Family Violence Working Group
- Kingston Mental Health Working Group
- MAV Preventing Violence Against Women Network
- Mornington Peninsula Frankston Family Violence Primary Prevention Collaborative
- Mornington Peninsula Shire Health and Wellbeing Committee
- Mornington Peninsula Youth Services Network
- Multicultural Advisory Committee
- RMIT VE Industry Advisory Committee Assoc Degree Health Sciences
- Respect Victoria’s Monitoring and Evaluation Advisory Group
- Respect Victoria’s Prevention Alliance
- Safe and Equal's Primary Prevention Advisory Committee
- Safe and Equal 16 Days Partner Advisory Group
- Safe and Equal’s Family Violence Comms and Media Network
- Southern East Suicide Prevention Network
- Southern Melbourne Family Violence Regional Integration Committee
- SPHERE - NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence in Sexual and Reproductive Health for Women in Primary Care
- WASEMA Family Violence Advisory Committee
- Weight Inclusive Alliance Network
- Women's Health Services Network
- Women's Health Services Quality and Compliance Committee
- Women’s Mental Health Alliance
- Yarra Ranges Mental Health Network
WHISE staff are members of the following Communities of Practice and Working Groups:
- Women’s Health Services Network Communications CoP
- Women’s Health Services Network Community of Practice for Sexual and Reproductive Health
- Women’s Health Services Network Community of Practice for Prevention of Violence against Women
- Women’s Health Services Network Quality CoP
- Statewide Disability Inclusion Community of Practice
- Our Watch Men in Focus Community of Practice
- Sexual and Reproductive Health Social Media Working Group
- Women’s Health Services Evaluation Working Group
- Framing Age Community of Practice