Our Programs & Services

Women’s Health In Women’s Hands Community Health Centre is committed to providing holistic health services to racialized women in the GTA. Primary health care is essential health care made universally accessible to individuals and families in the community by means acceptable to them, through their full participation and at a cost that the community and country can afford. It involves managing health care concerns within the broader social determinants of health. Our clinical team at WHIWH is a multidisciplinary team that consists of Physicians, Nurse Practitioners, Chiropodists, Nurses, Dietitians, Mental Health Therapists, and Social Workers. All work as a team to ensure clients get the best care possible. We customize our programs and services to meet individual needs of clients we serve. In our service provision, we attempt to provide all available information, education and support to allow women to make informed choices regarding all aspects of their health and health care, and to promote health and well being. Clients are also encouraged to be very involved and advocate for their health care needs.

PROGRAMS & SERVICES

Please note that ongoing program are for registered clients. For more information please call us at: 416-593-7655.

All services provided by staff at Women’s Health in Women’s Hands CHC with the exception of birth control and orthotics are free of charge.

  • Diabetes Education: We provide a safe inclusive environment where women who have developed or at risk of developing diabetes can be supported and encouraged to make their health a priority. Our Diabetes Education Team can teach you about diabetes prevention, management and care through individual counselling sessions and group classes led by the Diabetes Nurse Educator and/or the Dietitians.

Mental Health Services

Women’s Health in Women’s Hands counselling services employs a feminist, woman-centred approach to provide short-term counselling, group sessions and workshops to women from our priority populations.

These services include:

  • Mental health information/education
  • Counselling
  • Brief Counselling Strategies
  • Advocacy
  • Referrals
     

Overall Goals Of Therapy Are To Facilitate The Following:

  • Improve client’s supports and skills client to enhance functioning
  • Improve coping strategies
  • Provide the client with the skills to recognize problems and act proactively
  • Eliminate negative beliefs and perceptions, which can serve to maintain or increase problems
  • Empower clients to recognize and acknowledge their inherent abilities

Counselling services are offered within a brief counselling model and sessions are booked by appointment. A limited number of evening appointments are available.

In addition to individual support and counselling, our experienced team also offer groups and workshops year-round to our clients including

  •  Stress Reduction
  • Grief and Loss
  • Self-Esteem
  • Impact of Trauma               
  • Meditation           
  • Resistance and Resilience
  • Art Therapy            
  • Anger Resolution

Programs Fall 2019:

  • Women 2 Women Circle
  • Mind My Joy:Tools for Meaningful Self-Care
  • YOU ARE ENOUGH: Building Self-Esteem Workshop
  • My Sister’s Keeper

Programs Winter 2020:

  • Women 2 Women Circle
  • Honouring Loss: Grief Response Group
  • My Sister’s Keeper
  • Additional programs to be announced

Questions regarding our individual support

and counselling services,  please contact intake

at 416-593-7655

  • Pre/Post Natal link:We offer interdisciplinary classes to prepare you for the birth of your new child and to help you provide the best possible beginning for your baby including practical tips for healthy birthing, labour and delivery, relaxation, exercise, nutrition, baby care, baby blues and breast feeding.
  • HIV/AIDS: Our multidisciplinary holistic approach to HIV/AIDS links education, prevention, treatment, support care and advocacy to policy and research as a continuum framed with the determinants of health. Our services are inclusive of the many factors that contribute to risk ranging from individual behaviours to community and systemic issues. We provide HIV prevention, awareness education, anonymous testing, clinical care and health promotion and skills development for HIV Positive women.
  • Food Access: In partnership with the Daily Bread Food Bank, we offer short-term relief to clients who have limited access and availability of food through our emergency food cupboard program, Chakula Bora. We also distribute recipes and information culturally appropriate healthy eating. As an ongoing activity strategy, we raise awareness on the issues of food security and its impact on community health.
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