An aspect of Leichhardt Women's work is involved in advocating on behalf of women and improvements to women's health outcomes. This usually involves directly assisting our clients advocate for access to medical specialists and health care, housing, education, income support or legal advice.

This individual advocacy takes on a broader view when the Centre focusses on key issues affecting women to raise in the wider community. Recent examples of broader advocacy we've conducted includes:

• Three presentations at the 6th Australian Women's Health Conference in Hobart, May 2010. The topics were: Putting the case for a publicly funded support service based on the Leichhardt model for women partners of same sex attracted men in every Australian state and territory; the health benefits of creative movement and the role of the women's health nurse in the community based women's health setting. If you'd like to know more about this exciting, five yearly national women's health conference visit www.awhn.org.au.
• In 2007 the women's health nurse presented a poster on the interventions conducted by her at Leichhardt to facilitate social connection amongst new mothers and reduce post natal depression risk factors, presented at the Tresilian Conference (2007)
• In May 2007 a paper on the efficacy of the women's health approach in the treatment of depression was delivered at the Women and Depression Conference in Sydney (2007)
• Papers on the 'Issues Experienced by Women Partners of Gay/Bisexual Men', the 'Future of Women's Health Depends on Feminism' and the best practice service model of the 'Campsie Well Women Clinic' were presented at the 5th Australian Women's Health Conference, Melbourne in 2005 

Contact us for more information or copies of the above presentations.