Women's Community Health Network 

The Women’s Community Health Network WA engages in research and advocacy designed to address the social and structural conditions that affect the capacity of women's and girls' capacity to be safe, well and economically secure. Our research also identifies unmet need for, particularly disadvantaged, women in Western Australia and gaps in current policy and practice. The titles below link to WCHN publications to date. 

We are committed to publishing reports, submissions and position papers on women’s health, domestic and family violence and the social determinants of women’s health and wellbeing. Digital files may be downloaded or hard copies ordered.

For more information email admin@wchnwa.org.au

 Please read and share the following publications:

• The Women's Community Health Network's Submission to the WA Women's Plan 2019 
• Affirming Women's Inalienable Rights and Fundamental Freedoms 2019 (Article in DoH FDV Newsletter)
• The Women's Community Health Network's Response to the WA Women's Health and Wellbeing Policy Draft
• WCHN Pre-Budget Submission 2019-20
• Toward a Gender Responsive Recovery College Service Model 2019
• Community-Based Women's Health Services & Family & Domestic Violence 2018
• WCHN Pre-Budget Submission 2018-19
• Women's Community Health Network Survey Report 2017
• Gender Matters this Budget 2017
• Invest in Women's Health 2016
• WCHN Pre-Budget Submission 2016
• Women & Homelessness - A snapshot
• Women’s Mental Health & Alcohol and other Drug Use (submission 2015)
• Towards Gender Responsive Budgeting in Western Australia (2014)
• The Impact of Social Disadvantage on Women’s Health & Improving Women’s Access to Health Services (report 2014)
• The Impact of Social Disadvantage on Women’s Health & Improving Women’s Access to Health Services (report 2014)
• The adequacy of policy responses and the effects of policy settings regarding housing, legal services and women’s economic independence on their ability to escape violence (submission 2014)
• Women’s Health Matters:10 Point Plan of Action Project Report (2013)
• Women’s Health Matters: A 10 Point Plan of Action (2011)

Women's Community Health Network Updates

• Issue 10 December, 2018
• Special International Women's Day Edition - Ethical Sexual CItizenship & Girls and Young Women
• Issue 9 July, 2018
• Issue 8 October, 2017
• Issue 7 July, 2017
• Issue 6 January, 2017
• Issue 5 September, 2016
• Issue 4 July, 2016
• Issue 3 May, 2016
• Issue 2 March, 2016
• Issue 1 January, 2016
• December, 2015
• November, 2015
• September, 2015
• August, 2015
• June, 2015
• September, 2014
• June, 2014

Joint Publications

• The WA Women's Plan Community Consultation Report 2019
• Safe Systems Coalitions Submission to the Family and Domestic Violence Strategy Consultation 2019
• Safe Systems - A Blueprint for Action 2018 [Safe Systems Coalition]
• Evidence-based future directions: Exploring Co-operative Models 2018 [Women's Council for Domestic and Family Violence Services WA and the Women's Community Health Network WA]
• Exploring Co-operative Models Survey Report 2018 [Women's Council for Domestic and Family Violence Services WA and the Women's Community Health Network WA]

Presentations

The intersections between domestic and family violence, sexual assault, and childhood sexual abuse in the context of violence against women

The intersections between gender and disability, power and marginalisation

Domestic violence, pregnancy and community-based women’s health services

Women’s Health in Context

Presentations for Services for Women Connect Forum - Achieving Services, Systems and Communities that Deliver Better Outcomes for Women (20 May, 2015)