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Women’s Health NSW undertakes to be an effective peak body acting as a central contact base for information, advocacy, representation and support. To maximise this undertaking the following strategies are employed during 2007- 2008.

  • Participation on a number of ongoing committees, both government and non-government:
    • NSW Health, Primary and Community Health Working Group
    • NSW Health, Non Government Organisations (NGO) Advisory Committee
    • Non-Government/Government Women’s Health Quarterly Meeting
    • NSW Council of Social Service (NCOSS) Management
    • NGO Health Policy Advice Group (HPAG), NCOSS
    • Forum of Non Government Agencies (FONGA), NCOSS
    • Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) Advisory Committee
    • Bessie Smyth Foundation (BSF), Pregnancy Options Information Service
    • Australian Women’s Health Network (AWHN)
    • Reproductive Choice Australia (RCA).
  • Projects, Consultations and Advisory Committees and or short term/one off consultations:
    • NSW Women’s Health Strategy Working Group, NSW Health
    • Department for Women, Peak Women’s & Other Organisation’s Meeting
    • Multicultural Disability Advocacy Association of NSW and Network of Women With Disability - Roundtable discussion on Women with Disability from NESB and/or Carers - Experiencing Domestic Violence
    • NSW Police Force Domestic & Family Violence Stakeholder Forum
    • Royal Australasian College of Physicians: Health Consumers and Community Partnerships Forum
    • Peaks Forum, HSCEO.
  • Conference, Forum, Seminar Participation/Attendance:
    • Diverse and Inclusive Practice: Redrawing the Boundaries. Domestic Violence, Disability and Cultural Safety
    • Perspectives on Poverty
    • Flight to the Future: Towards 2017 NCOSS Sector Development
    • Women of Ideas: Feminist Thinking for a New Era
    • International Women’s Day: 100 Years of Shaping Progress For Women
    • 2007 NSW Violence Against Women Prevention Awards
    • Discovering Voice & Strength: Creative Arts with Refugee Women.
    • Clare Burton Memorial Lecture 2007: Understandings of Sex Discrimination in the Workplace: Limits and Possibilities
    • Jacaranda Project: A Research report: Group programs for adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse.