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BC Women's was founded in 1994 when the Grace Maternity Hospital merged with the Women's Health Centre of the former Shaughnessy Hospital. As a result, BC Women's has a breadth and scope of obstetrical and specialized women's programs unmatched in the country. BC Women's Foundation supports the hospital so that: * BC Women's may continue to be a national leader in meeting the health needs of women, while treating patients and their families as partners in their health care choices. * The hospital can continue to provide academic, career, and leadership opportunities for health care professionals pursuing specialties in women's health. BC Women's provides its services with: * Compassion, caring, honesty and integrity * Respect for the rights, opinions and dignity of every individual: patients, families, and staff * And excellence in all we do BC Women's focuses its research, teaching and care on women's health and the health of their families.

The Victoria Faulkner Women’s Centre is a Whitehorse, Yukon based organization that has been offering programming and support to women throughout the Yukon for more than thirty years. The Women’s Advocate offers support and assists women in assessing their options and accessing information and services. The Centre organizes annual events such as International Women’s Day, Sexual Assault Prevention Month and Take Back the Night, and offers various programs such as the Moms and Kids Summer Recreation Program, Rural Pregnant Moms Suite, daily drop-in, the Community Kitchen, film nights, book club, and Girls Club.

At First Step Women's Center, we help women just like you who walk through our doors each day. We are here to serve you.

We energize, mobilize and support Black Women to transform their health and their lives through education, advocacy, support, and powerful partnerships. We exist to eliminate health disparities and other barriers that impact Black Women and Girls. We empower Black women and girls to live healthy, well, and thriving lives.

Women’s College has a long history of generous support from many committed and dedicated friends. Without you, our accomplishments would not be possible. Donor support makes a real difference, ensuring that Women’s College continues to provide the highest quality of patient care now, and embraces its role as the only hospital in Ontario with a primary focus in women's health and the province's only academic ambulatory care hospital. Donate, volunteer, get involved – join our Foundation family in support of Women’s College!

The American Medical Women’s Association is an organization which functions at the local, national, and international level to advance women in medicine, advocate for equity, and ensure excellence in healthcare. We achieve this by providing and developing leadership, advocacy, education, expertise, mentoring, and strategic alliances.

Women and adolescent girls access our Women's Centre for information, one-to-one support and advocacy for a wide range of issues and concerns -- poverty, violence and abuse, sexual assault, mental and emotional health, affordable housing, parenting, social and familial relationships, separation and divorce, and women's rights and entitlements. We offer community-based programs that include a women's health clinic, a sexual assualt nurse examiner (SANE) program, support groups for adult survivors of sexual trauma, an in-school healthy relationships program for grade nine students, and a problem-solving skills development program for adolescent girls. We are working with our community on community health impact assessment, a poverty reduction strategy, food security and strengthening services for children and youth. We are involved at the provincial level with social policy advocacy focussed on poverty and violence against women.

We derive our strength from the thousands of women, men, corporations and organizations that support our work. And we derive our credibility from our partnerships with the leading national professional women’s health societies: * Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada (SOGC) * Association of Professors of Obstetrics and Gynecology (APOG) * Society of Gynecologic Oncologists of Canada (GOC) * Canadian Fertility and Andrology Society (CFAS) * Canadian Society of Urogynaecology and Reconstructive Pelvic Surgery (CSURPS) * Society of Colposcopists (SCC) When you support the CFWH, you are helping women through research into areas such as: * In utero fetal health * Preterm labour * Safer pregnancies * Post-partum depression * Gestational diabetes * Infertility * Safe delivery and newborn health. Your support helps mothers and their babies, and helps ensure that all women have access to optimal health care and health information.

CWHC facilitates the empowerment of women, trans people, and young people by providing access to health care and health education in a respectful environment where people pay what they can afford.

We are a feminist community health clinic in Winnipeg, MB. Since 1981, we've offered a range of client-centred services for women of all ages. We also provide services to males through our Teen Clinics & the Provincial Eating Disorder Prevention & Recovery Program. We emphasize prevention, education and choice. We design our programs and services to encourage and empower people to take charge of their own health. We provide medical and counselling services, health education and information, and undertake advocacy and research on women's health issues. We also train and mentor volunteers in several programs to provide direct service and information to our clients and community members.

Women’s House Serving Bruce and Grey is a local non-profit organization that provides safe shelter and services to women 16 years of age and older, and their children, who have or are experiencing abuse, sexual violence and homelessness. Our Sexual Assault Services office is in Owen Sound, ON and the physical shelter and business office is in Kincardine, ON. Our Second Stage Housing Units are in Port Elgin, ON, Wiarton, ON and Kincardine, ON. All areas mentioned provide a safe environment for women and children for counselling, housing, group programs and transitional education.

HealthyWomen is the nation’s leading independent health information source for women. Their platform can be found at www.HealthyWomen.org. For more than 20 years, women have been coming to HealthyWomen for answers to their most pressing and personal health care questions. Through its wide array of online resources, HW provides health information that is original, objective, reviewed by medical experts and reflective of the advances in evidence-based health research. HealthyWomen has a history of providing unbiased and accurate health information. Over the years they have earned the trust of consumers, health care providers, nonprofits, corporate partners and the media. HealthyWomen is widely referenced in print, broadcast and online venues and has been named a top women's health site.