Women's health collective

Women helping women
help themselves
since 1971

At the Vancouver Women’s Health Collective, we support self-identified
women and gender diverse folks in fostering health, wellness, and equity
through intersectional feminist approaches to advocacy, shared knowledge,
and minimal-barrier services.

Donate Who we are

Women's health collective

Women helping women
help themselves
since 1971

At the Vancouver Women’s Health Collective, we support women
and gender diverse individuals in fostering health, wellness,
and equity through intersectional feminist approaches to advocacy, shared knowledge, and minimal-barrier services.

Donate Who we are

We at the VWHC live, work, and play on the Unceded Territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Swx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlil̓ilw̓ətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.

Territorial acknowledgments are just one small part of dismantling colonial worldviews. Please take a moment to think of other ways you can enact decolonization.

Why We Exist

Our work responds to systemic inequities that limit access to healthcare. Our aim has remained the same since our emergence, one that focuses on empowering women to take control of their own health through self-advocacy, knowledge sharing, accessible services, community involvement, and grassroots activism.

Since 1971, the Vancouver Women’s Health Collective has spent over five decades advocating for health equity for women. Over the years, the VWHC evolved into an intersectional feminist and community-centered collective inclusive of gender diverse folks, providing free, minimal-barrier services (within boundaries) at our drop-in resource centre in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. Our offerings include access to essential resources, advocacy, wellness initiatives, workshops, trainings, community involvement opportunities, and clinics offered in partnership with local organizations and allied practitioners.