Since the agency's founding in 1977, more than 13,000 adults and children have benefited from CWEP's programs, developing the educational skills they need to move into economic self-sufficiency. Free, confidential services include a 24-hour hotline, options counseling, advocacy, Protection Order assistance, court accompaniment, emergency shelter, support groups and community education. Case managers connect women with job training, education and other empowering resources promoting economic and emotional independence from abusers. The Elizabeth Blackwell Health Center for Women provides routine gynecological care by female practitioners in a sensitive, feminist environment.
Expertise includes care for women with developmental disabilities.
Specialized services include free pregnancy testing and options counseling, treatment for sexually transmitted diseases, anonymous HIV testing and counseling, abortion services and donor insemination. Job search, career change and career management services are offered with reduced fees available for low income clients. Organizational training and consulting includes career management, diversity and sexual harassment prevention. Older Women's Network SOWN helps women over 60, from diverse backgrounds, cope with the issues of aging by establishing and maintaining support groups. Currently, close to 50 groups are meeting regularly throughout the Delaware Valley.