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Women's Health

The Mayor’s Office of Women’s Advancement is committed to supporting all aspects of women’s health and well-being.

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Our focus includes:
  • Menstrual Equity
  • Reproductive Rights
  • Healthy Pregnancy & Birth
  • Mental Health
  • Healthy Aging

HEALTHY PREGNANCY AND BIRTH GRANT APPLICATION

Applications are now open for the The Mayor’s Office of Women’s Advancement Healthy Pregnancies and Births Grant (HPB). Responses are due January 19, 2024 at 5:00pm.

 

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Women’s Mental Health

Women’s Mental Health

The Massachusetts Behavioral Health Help Line (BHHL) is here to connect you directly to clinical help, when and where you need it. Learn More

Created by statute in 2010, the Ellen Story Commission on Postpartum Depression is a Massachusetts special legislative commission named for retired State Representative Ellen Story. 

The Commission's mission is to investigate and study issues related to perinatal mental health (PMH), increase awareness around perinatal mood and anxiety disorders (PMADs), improve availability and access to PMH resources for birthing people and their families, and recommend best practices for screening and treatment of PMADs.

For information on upcoming meetings and events, visit the PPD Commission website.

Take the Survey

Logo for the National LGBTQ+ Women*s Community Survey

Help Shape the Future. We’re proud to help spread the word about the National LGBTQ+ Women’s Community Survey—a groundbreaking effort to capture the full, vibrant realities of LGBTQ+ women and gender-expansive people across the United States. Led by a coalition of researchers, organizers, and over 100 community partners, the survey centers the voices of those too often left out of data and policy conversations—including Black, Indigenous, and other people of color, trans and non-binary folks, elders, youth, people with disabilities, and working-class communities. By taking the survey, you can help: Make LGBTQ+ women’s lives and needs more visible Strengthen advocacy, organizing, and funding across our communities Ensure that data reflects the depth and diversity of our lived experiences This is more than a survey—it’s a tool for change. And your story belongs in it.

 

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Reproductive Rights

Know Your Reproductive Rights Webinar

Panelists: Dr. Bisola Ojikutu, Rebecca Hart Holder, Dr. Silva-Herman, and Batool Raza

Moderator: Chief Mariangely Solis Cervera! 

WATCH THE REPLAY

sexual & reproductive health resource guide

We want to make sexual and reproductive health information

accessible to everyone. In this guide, you will find resources

and ways to get involved in advocacy.

View Guide

 Abortion Legal Hotline: 833-309-6301

"Reproductive Equity Now’s Abortion Legal Hotline is a free and confidential abortion information resource built in collaboration with non-profit partners and five law firms across the Commonwealth of Massachusetts." Learn More

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