Women Engaged
Description: Women Engaged's Impact Report over the last 7 years.
Women Engaged (WE) prides itself on understanding and responding to the varied but interconnected problems that face our constituents – and COVID-19 is no different. From day one, we integrated COVID relief into our work by adapting our canvass scripts to include questions to identify community members in need of help. Through this effort, WE directly connected nearly 1,000 families with resources on food, housing, transportation and more, through the first year of the pandemic.
Georgia still has not expanded Medicaid through the Affordable Care Act, which has left millions of dollars on the table and led to the closure of 13 rural hospitals over the last 10 years. Over the years we have consistently asked community members if elected officials should expand access to not only healthcare, but reproductive health care. We have found that 80% of those we have spoken with believe that legislators need to increase access to affordable healthcare.
We are a leading member of the Georgia Reproductive Health, Rights, and Justice Coalition, and a permanent partner of ProGeorgia, the 501c3 State Voices affiliate, where CEO Malika Redmond is the proud Board Chair-Emeritus. Currently, COO Michelle Wilson, is also a member of the ProGeorgia Board of Directors and facilitates the Reproductive Justice Workgroup.
Women Engaged