Our Story
Women's Health In Women's Hands is a community health centre for women of diverse racial backgrounds in Metropolitan Toronto and surrounding municipalities. Our primary health care team of highly skilled health care professionals specializes in the health wellness and medical needs of racialized women. Our services are fully accessible and designed to address the barriers that prevent us from being healthy. Our inclusive multidisciplinary services include primary medical health care, mental health support programs with individual and group counseling; dietician led programs, chiropody services, diabetes education centre,health promotion and education programs; pre- and post-natal care programs; HIV/AIDS prevention, support and care,healthy living activities and a Research program.
We are committed to working from an inclusive feminist, pro-choice, anti-racist, anti-oppression, and multilingual participatory framework in addressing the issue of access to healthcare for our mandated priority populations encompassing gender, race, class, violence, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, culture, language, disability, immigration status and socio-economic circumstances.
About our social media presence:
The information contained on WHIWH-CHC social media pages (including, but not limited to: Twitter, Facebook, blogs and YouTube) does not constitute medical, legal, or professional advice and is provided for educational and information purposes only. Under no circumstances should information provided on these pages be interpreted as a substitute for medical advice from your own health care provider.
Our social media pages are monitored periodically on weekdays between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. EST. While WHIWH-CHC makes reasonable efforts to ensure that the information provided and the external links we post to our social media pages contain credible information, human and/or mechanical error can occur. Therefore, WHIWH-CHC cannot guarantee the accuracy of the content on our social media pages. WHIWH-CHC also cannot be held responsible for the content, images or third-party links submitted by other users.
Links to non-WHIWH-CHC resources on this site do not constitute official endorsement on behalf of WHIWH-CHC.
Social Media Public Comment Policy
WHIWH-CHC encourages you to share your thoughts in a respectful manner on our social media. We do not necessarily agree with the comments that individuals post on our social media, but we welcome robust conversations and accept the majority of comments made on our pages. We also strive to be responsive to comments, when appropriate, and in a timely fashion.
However, WHIWH-CHC will remove posts and links that we perceive to be spam, advertising, unlawful, harassing, abusive, obscene or defamatory. We also reserve the right to block individuals who repeatedly violate this comment policy.
Please remember that when you post a comment on social media, it can be read and reproduced by anyone on the Internet. Before you post, consider how much personal information you want to make public. If you have personal medical questions, please contact your primary care provider or contact us to determine your eligibility for our health care services (info@whiwh.com or 416-593-7655).
We understand that social media is available 24 hours a day; however, our monitoring capabilities are not. Our social media pages are monitored periodically on weekdays between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. EST. As such, we may not see an inappropriate comment right away. If you notice a comment that violates this comment policy, you may notify our social media committee at info@whiwh.com or 416-593-7655.
