Our Services

Group Program | Information Resources | Library

The Centre aims to provide an equally accessible health service to women regardless of age, disability, geographical location, sexual orientation, financial status, ethnic origin and background. Where barriers exist the Centre aims to develop strategies to overcome them.

The Centre provides a wide variety of services, including:

Direct services to community women either face-to-face, on the telephone, by mail or email;
Community education programs;
Training for other service providers;
Referral to other agencies; and
Resource centre for women.

Health Workers

The Health Workers at the Centre provide individual support, group work and community education in specific areas of women's health including: emotional health and wellbeing, menstrual health, diet, nutrition and body image issues, older women's issues, breast health, same-sex attracted and transgender women's health and other health issues.

Group Program

A program of activities including - interest and support groups, exercise classes and alternative therapists.

See our latest programs and activities

Information Resources

The Centre has a library of books and videos that are available for loan. In addition the Centre has an extensive range of pamphlets and information sheets on women's health issues and also houses a number of relevant magazines and journals.

Women are welcome to telephone or come into the Centre to access any information held by the Centre. If a woman is calling outside the Hobart metropolitan area the worker at the Centre can immediately phone her back.

If you would like some health information, please drop in to the Centre, call us on 62 313212 or send an email.

Library

Women's Wisdom Library New Additions

As well as recent purchases by the Centre, to address gaps of information in the Library, some generous women from the community have also donated a number of new books. New additions include:

Easy Way for Women to Stop Smoking: Without Gaining Weight by Allen Carr
Women of the 14th Moon: Writings on Menopause edited by Dena Taylor and Amber Coverdale Sumrall
Pregnancy Loss: Surviving Miscarriage and Stillbirth by Zoe Taylor
The Brain That Changes Itself by Norman Doidge, MD.
What your Doctor may NOT tell you about Menopause: The breakthrough book on natural hormone balance by John R. Lee, MD with Virginia Hopkins

These and other new titles are currently available to borrow from the Women's Wisdom Library, so call in and check them out.

Journals and Magazines

Did you know that we subscribe to and receive a wide variety of journals, magazines and newsletters? You're most welcome to drop in, have a browse, a cuppa and to photocopy pages of interest for yourself.

Some of the titles are:

Mothers Matter
Women With Disabilities Australia
Family Matters (Journal of the Australian Institute of Family Studies)
Lesbians on the Loose
The Journal of Complementary Medicine
Taspride Newsletter
Women's Health Queensland Wide
InnerSelf