Women's Health In the North

Name

Women's Health In the North

Legal name

Women's Health In the North

Website

https://whin.org.au

Company type

Private

Founded year

1991

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Community Health Promotion and Gender Equity Services

NAICS

Individual and Family Services (6241)

SIC

Services-Social Services (8300)

akta.pro primary industry

Gender Equality & Women’s Empowerment (BPAGABAF)

akta.pro secondary industry

Women's Health & Life-Stage Wellness Education (Fertility, Pregnancy, Menopause) (EDAAAHAI)

Keywords

• Women's health promotion
• Gender equity advocacy
• Gender-based violence prevention
• Sexual and reproductive health
• Community health training

Headquarters

HQ city

Preston

HQ country

Australia

HQ region

Oceania

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Others, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Government Funding: WHIN receives funding from the Victorian Government to deliver women's health services and programs, including the Women's Health Program.
2. Training and Consultancy Services: Fee-for-service training modules and bespoke consultancy packages to organizations on gender equity, preventing violence against women, sexual and reproductive health, and economic equality.
3. Donations: Tax-deductible donations accepted from the public to support WHIN's work. Registered charity with Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission. Donations of $2 or more are tax deductible.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels8 records

Core offering

Women's Health In the North (WHIN) is a not-for-profit women's health promotion and advocacy organisation that delivers community education, professional training and consultancy, family violence system leadership, and regionally coordinated strategies to advance gender equity, prevent gender-based violence, and improve sexual and reproductive health for women and gender-diverse people across Melbourne's northern metropolitan region. Core deliverables include fee-for-service training modules, the award-winning Let's Talk Money financial literacy program, the FRESH regional sexual and reproductive health strategy, NIFVS family violence coordination, and the Building a Respectful Community Partnership.

Product overview

Women's Health In the North (WHIN) operates as a women's health promotion and advocacy organisation rather than a technology product company. The organisation offers a portfolio of health promotion programs, professional training services, and resource collections. Core programs include the award-winning 'Let's Talk Money' financial literacy program, the Building a Respectful Community Partnership for preventing gender-based violence, the Freedom, Respect and Equity in Sexual Health (FRESH) regional strategy, and Northern Integrated Family Violence Services (NIFVS). Training and consultancy services cover gender equity, family violence response, and sexual and reproductive health. WHIN also produces extensive resource collections including publications, fact sheets, and evaluation reports.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Let's Talk Money: Award-winning financial literacy program supporting economic empowerment of migrant and refugee women in the northern metropolitan region of Melbourne. Won VicHealth Award in 2019 for Promoting Gender Equality.
• NIFVS (Northern Integrated Family Violence Services)
• Building a Respectful Community Partnership (BRC)
• FRESH (Freedom, Respect and Equity in Sexual Health)

Products and services

• Let's Talk Money An award-winning financial literacy program that supports the economic empowerment of migrant and refugee women through bilingual peer educator workshops covering budgeting, saving, banking, debt management, tenancy rights, and Centrelink services. Includes a Train-the-Trainer program available for organisations across Victoria.
• Building a Respectful Community Partnership A collective of 24+ organisations across Melbourne's northern metropolitan region committed to the primary prevention of gender-based violence through a shared strategy guiding action in workplaces, community settings, and services.
• Training Modules and Consultancy Services Professional education and capability-building services including Preventing Gender-Based Violence training, Family Violence Response training, Sexual and Reproductive Health training, and Economic Equality training delivered to organisations across Victoria. Provided through fee-for-service arrangements with bespoke consultancy packages.
• Northern Integrated Family Violence Services (NIFVS) A team and Regional Integration Committee providing family violence system leadership across Melbourne's northern metropolitan region, coordinating counselling, group work, and professional development for community health and specialist family violence services. WHIN employs the NIFVS team and resources the committee.
• Family and Reproductive Rights Education Program (FARREP) A state-wide health promotion program working with communities to prevent female genital cutting (FGC), providing culturally sensitive support and professional education sessions for clinicians.
• Taking ACtion Peer-Led Education Program A peer-led education program focusing on affirmative consent, sexual rights, pleasure, and sexual violence prevention, developed in partnership with Banksia Gardens Community Services.

Quantifiable outcome

• Return on investment of $468 for every $1 of primary prevention investment in women's health sector
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers4 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

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Partnerships

Ten partnerships are on record, tiered core and secondary.

• Building a Respectful Community PartnershipcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2012The Building a Respectful Community Partnership is a collective of 24-29 organizations across the northern metropolitan region committed to preventing gender-based violence and promoting gender equality. Led by WHIN, members include Banyule City Council, Darebin City Council, Hume City Council, Merri-bek City Council, Nillumbik Shire Council, City of Whittlesea, Yarra City Council, Banyule Community Health, cohealth, Your Community Health, healthAbility, Merri Health, DPV Health, North Richmond Community Health, Sunbury Cobaw Community Health, Whittlesea Community Connections, Banksia Gardens Community Services, Good Samaritan Inn, Austin Health (Northern Centre Against Sexual Assault), La Trobe University, Melbourne Polytechnic, Neighbourhood Justice Centre, Brotherhood of St Laurence, Fitzroy Legal Service, and Department of Education Respectful Relationships programs.
• Women's Health Services Network (WHSN)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerWHIN is a member of the Women's Health Services Network, a statewide collaboration of 12 women's health services funded through the Victorian Women's Health Program. The network works as a coordinated statewide system comprising both place-based and specialist services to advance women's health and gender equality across Victoria.
• Northern Integrated Family Violence Services (NIFVS)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerWHIN employs the NIFVS team and resources the NIFVS Regional Integration Committee. NIFVS provides family violence system leadership across Melbourne's northern metropolitan region, including convening the NIFVS Counselling and Support Alliance of 12 community health and specialist family violence services.
• Women with Disabilities Victoria (WDV)secondaryStrategic or Co-development PartnerWHIN partners with WDV to deliver the 'Enabling Women' program in the northern region (Yarra, Moreland/Darebin councils). WHIN staff have completed training for WDV's Gender and Workforce Development Program and are qualified to co-facilitate these sessions.
• Action for Gender Equality Action Partnership (AGEP)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerWHIN is an approved provider of services to support implementation of the Victorian Gender Equality Act 2020 via the Action for Gender Equality Action Partnership. WHIN supports prescribed organizations with gender impact assessments and developing/implementing strategies to improve gender equality.
• Women's Health VictoriasecondaryStrategic or Co-development PartnerWHIN partners with Women's Health Victoria on sexual and reproductive health initiatives including forum series on reproductive coercion, and joint advocacy on abortion access.
• Taking ACtion Partnership - Banksia Gardens Community ServicessecondaryStrategic or Co-development PartnerWHIN is a partner in the Taking ACtion peer-led education program focused on affirmative consent, sexual rights, pleasure and sexual violence prevention. Developed and delivered in partnership with Banksia Gardens Community Services using a rights-based and sex-positive approach.
• Zoe Belle Gender CollectivesecondaryStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership between Zoe Belle Gender Collective and WHIN to produce 'Allyship in Action: Frameworks for trans and gender diverse inclusion in prevention of gender-based violence initiatives'. Includes joint delivery of learning forum on bystander action for trans and gender equity.
• Multicultural Centre for Women's Health (MCWH)secondaryStrategic or Co-development PartnerWHIN is a proud partner in the WOMHEn project (Workforce of Multilingual Health Educators), an initiative of the Victorian government's Working for Victoria program, working with MCWH, Gender Equity Victoria and other women's health services.
• Victorian Government Department of HealthcoreOthersWHIN acknowledges the support of the Victorian Government. Funded through the Victorian Women' Health Program and other government initiatives including Working for Victoria and Department of Health COVID-19 vaccination ambassador program.

Scale indicators9 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Multicultural Centre for Women's Health (MCWH): National organisation focused on migrant and refugee women's sexual and reproductive health. WHIN partners with MCWH on the WOMHEn multilingual health educators project, and they share a bilingual peer-educator methodology for multicultural women's health.
• Women with Disabilities Victoria (WDV): Statewide disability advocacy organisation partnering with WHIN on the Enabling Women program and workforce gender-equality training. Comparable intersectional advocacy/training mission targeting marginalised women in Victoria.
• Women's Health Victoria: Statewide peak body for women's health in Victoria and a WHIN partner (joint advocacy on abortion access, reproductive coercion forums). Operates at the state policy and advocacy layer above WHIN's place-based delivery, with overlapping program areas.
• Women's Health in the South East (WHISE): Place-based women's health promotion organisation serving Melbourne's south-eastern region, structurally analogous to WHIN with the same regional mandate, government funding model, and program portfolio (gender equity, prevention of violence, SRH).
• Women's Health East: Sister place-based women's health promotion and advocacy organisation covering Melbourne's eastern metropolitan region. Operates under the same Women's Health Services Network model, delivering gender equity, SRH, and violence prevention services through regional councils and community health partners.
• Safe and Equal: Victorian peak body for specialist family violence services, closely aligned with WHIN's NIFVS work. Operates in the same prevention-of-violence-against-women space with overlapping practitioner-training and system-leadership activities.
• Family Planning Victoria: Victorian provider of sexual and reproductive health clinical services, education and training. Highly comparable to WHIN's FRESH strategy and SRH resource work, though with a clinical-service delivery model rather than pure health promotion.
• Gender Equity Victoria (GENVIC): Statewide gender equity advocacy peak body and a listed WHIN partner. Comparable advocacy/training mission with deeper state-level policy focus, while WHIN is more place-based — together they cover complementary layers of the same ecosystem.

Regional players

• Women's Health Grampians: Regional women's health service covering the Grampians area of western Victoria; comparable funding model and mandate (gender equity, violence prevention, SRH) but operating in a different rural/regional catchment than WHIN's metropolitan focus.
• Women's Health Loddon Mallee: Another Victorian Women's Health Services Network member operating in the Loddon Mallee region. Same statewide funding framework and women's health promotion mandate, but serves a largely rural catchment rather than metropolitan Melbourne.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• YouTubeyoutube.com/@womenshealthinthenorth
• Facebookfacebook.com/whinmelbourne
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/womens-health-in-the-north
• Instagraminstagram.com/womenshealthinthenorth
• Xx.com/whinwomen

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Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles3 records

Funding overview

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