We operate with a philosophy grounded in the ‘Social Model of Health’ and have adopted a style of service that focuses on the healing of lifestyle related problems that detrimentally affect the health and well-being of women of all ages, particularly those from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds. In other words, the ‘medical’ condition of women seeking the services of the center is not separated from the real-life interconnections of personal, social, cultural, economic, race, age and gender related problems. Women are provided with information, advice, counselling, training and/or support so that they are empowered to deal with the problems themselves, or they are referred on to another agency for specialised assistance. We believe that women are the centre of the community, if the women are empowered this has a systemic effect on families and community. Ishar Multicultural Women’s Health Services was officially opened on August 10th, 1992 and in 2020 celebrates 27 years of service. Ishar has provided vital services for approximately 4600 women from over 100 ethnicities making over 50,000 service contacts.