Women's Health Goulburn North East Membership Application |
Membership at Women's Health Goulburn North East is free, and it runs from July to June each financial year.
Women’s Health Goulburn North East Incorporated is a dynamic, independent, feminist organisation committed to improving the health, safety and wellbeing of women in the Goulburn Valley and North East Victoria.
We are dedicated to promoting the health outcomes of all women, and to improving the delivery of health and community services for women in our local community.
We acknowledge and affirm the diversity, capability, strength, and resilience of women, and work to build on these strengths to achieve safer, fairer and more equitable social, environmental and economic outcomes for women.
To achieve this goal, we:
We are dedicated to promoting the health outcomes of all women, and to improving the delivery of health and community services for women in our local community.
We acknowledge and affirm the diversity, capability, strength, and resilience of women, and work to build on these strengths to achieve safer, fairer and more equitable social, environmental and economic outcomes for women.
To achieve this goal, we:
- Research women’s experiences of health to raise awareness, change attitudes, and influence service response
- Are alert to the political environment, and work to uphold and advance women’s rights by influencing policy & planning
- Provide professional training and education to develop skills and resources that empower local women, communities and service providers
- Implement a range of integrated health promotion activities across the Goulburn and Ovens-Murray (North East) regions
- Work in strong collaboration with women, organisations and communities.
To become a member of Women's Health Goulburn North East, it is important that:
- You, or your organisation, agree that all women should have the right to make informed choices and the right to control their bodies in every aspect of health and wellbeing, and
- You, or your organisation, support the Purposes of the Association and agree to comply with the Rules of Women’s Health Goulburn North East Inc.
By becoming a valued member of you will receive our bi-monthly newsletter, a copy of our annual report, voting rights at our Annual General Meeting and invitations to key events and forums.
To become a member or to represent an organisation as a member of Women's Health Goulburn North East, you must identify as female and be over 18 years of age.