Issue Tip Sheets
Women’s Health
Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease
or infirmity. ~World Health Organization, 1948
ONLINE VOLUNTEER DATABASE
http://calcorps.volunteermatch.org
The Cal Corps Volunteer Database constantly lists a myriad of opportunities where you can
volunteer in hospitals and non-profits to obtain a greater awareness of Women’s Health
issues. Here are some listings under this category; visit the site for a more complete list of
volunteer opportunities:
Girls on the Run of the Bay Area– coach ACCESS/Women’s Health Rights—using a
young girls to run through this sports- combination of direct services,
based curriculum program community education and policy
advocacy, this NGO promotes
Women’s Cancer Resource Center—
reproductive options to low-income,
empowers women with cancer to be
uninsured, young, and immigrant women.
active and informed survivors, and
provides a community for women with The Breast Cancer Fund—identifies and
cancer advocates for the elimination of
preventable causes of breast cancer.
YWCA—provides programs to UC Berkeley
students at the Berkeley Community. Be Women’s Daytime Drop-In Center—
on the look out for the YWCA’s shadow address the needs of homeless women
day where 600 youth shadow Cal and children to ensure they have a safe
Students daytime refuge.
UC BERKELEY ORGANIZATIONS
Don’t forget: UC Berkeley is home to over 700 student groups! Here are some students groups focused on
women’s health and health in general:
Empowering Women of Color (ewocc.berkeley.edu)
Female Sexuality DeCal (www.femsex.net)
GABRIELA Network (www.gabnet.org)
National Council of Negro Women (berkeleychapter.tripod.com)
National Organization for Women (http://bnow.berkeley.edu)
publicservice.berkeley.edu | 505 Eshleman | (510) 642-3916 | publicservice@berkeley.edu
UC Berkeley Student Groups continued…
V-Day at UC Berkeley (vagmons2009@gmail.com)
Women and Youth Supporting Each Other (www.wyse.org)
Suitcase Clinic (www.suitcaseclinic.org)
Chicano(a)s/Latino(a)s in Health Education (CHE) (calche.berkeley.edu)
Health and Medical Apprenticeship program (http://hmap.Berkeley.edu)
COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS
In addition, you can contact these organizations that support the health of your local
community to create your own volunteer opportunity:
Berkeley Free Clinic (www.berkeleyfreeclinic.org)
San Francisco Community Clinic (http://www.sfccc.org/)
California Pacific Medical Center (http://www.cpmc.org/how/volunteer/)
Alta Bates Summit Medical Center (Maternity Ward)
(http://altabatessummit.org/how/volunteer.html)
San Francisco Women against Rape (http://www.sfwar.org/about.html)
Women’s Community Clinic (http://www.womenscommunityclinic.org/about_us/index.html)
AIDS Health Project – UCSF (http://www.ucsf-ahp.org)
Breast Cancer Action (http://www.bcaction.org)
Carol Ann Read Breast Health Center (http://www.altabatessummit.org)
Scleroderma Research Foundation (http://www.sclerodermaresearch.org)
University of California, San Francisco, Carol Franc Buck Breast Care Center
(http://www.tasteforthecure.org)
MORE DATABASES to search for further volunteer opportunities
VolunteerMatch—web’s largest database for volunteer opportunities,
www.volunteermatch.org
Idealist.org—listings for volunteering and internships, www.idealist.org
Hands on Bay Area— www.handsonbayarea.org
If none of these links provide what you are interested in, come to the Cal Corps Office
in 505 Eshleman and we will help you find something else!
publicservice.berkeley.edu | 505 Eshleman | (510) 642-3916 | publicservice@berkeley.edu