Wellness within
An organization for reproductive justice, prison abolition, and health equity.
Wellness Within is a volunteer-based non-profit organization. Our work prioritizes full-spectrum reproductive healthcare and reproductive justice, prison abolition, and health equity. We facilitate workshops and education sessions for the public, students, health care professionals, and women, trans, and nonbinary people who have experienced criminalization. We develop resource materials. We collaborate. We advocate for decarceration and access to housing, income, resources and health care for women, trans, and nonbinary people who have experienced criminalization.
Toolkits & Infographics
We have created a library of toolkits and informational resources for a range of care topics including the Black Doula Toolkit, an Abortion Doulas Visual Road Map, The Child Protection Toolkit, and more.
Learning Modules
Explore our learning modules for frontline service providers supporting people with criminal-legal system involvement with family planning care, and family planning care for doulas.
Where to get an Abortion
We are currently developing posters and brochures about getting abortion services across Canada for use by frontline service providers in both english and french.
We serve women and transgender/nonbinary individuals who have experienced criminalization and are pregnant or have young children. Wellness Within helped to pioneer doula access for incarcerated individuals through advocacy and by providing on the ground support in the Nova Institution for Federal Prison, the Central Nova Scotia Correctional Facility Provincial Jail, and the Nova Scotia Youth Facility as well as in the community to those out on bail and parole. This advocacy has ensured that all pregnant individuals incarcerated at the Central Nova Scotia Facility Provincial Jail (Burnside) have access to doula support, which is ongoing.