UCCOM Women Leading Healthy Change

We are female medical students at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine who are passionate about education, social justice, and women's health.

Women Leading Healthy Change (WLHC) is an organization at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine that provides UCCOM students with an opportunity to teach, support, and learn from women who are recovering from homelessness, drug addiction, and/or prostitution. We currently work with Off The Streets, First Step Home, and Bethany House. We facilitate courses in women's health and mental health. During these sessions, we seek to help the women we teach develop an understanding of their own personal health care and encourage self-empowerment. As medical students, we learn to approach these otherwise neglected women with compassion, empathy, and openness.