Women Helping Women
About Women Helping Women
Founded in 1973, Women Helping Women (WHW) prevents gender-based violence and empowers all survivors. WHW provides evidence-based prevention and expert crisis intervention and support services for survivors of dating violence, sexual violence, domestic violence and stalking in Hamilton and Butler, Ohio Counties (including sexual violence crisis services to Brown and Adams Counties). WHW operates from a public health framework that is survivor centric and promotes diversity and inclusion as core operating values. WHW meets the needs of our region and serves over 7,000 clients annually.
Women Helping Women was founded on the feminist belief that individuals within a community can and do provide effective support and counseling for each other. In October 1973, several University of Cincinnati graduate students pooled their resources to form a membership, and began to offer counseling services to women.