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Founded in 1971, CHOICE, Inc. is a non-profit agency committed to ensuring that quality information, care, and education regarding reproductive, sexual, and family health is available to everyone.   CHOICE fulfills this mission through two main programs, Hotline Services and Community Education.  Through our free, confidential, and bi-lingual hotline services we disseminate accurate information, referrals, and non-judgmental, non-directive counseling around topics including pregnancy, pregnancy options, birth control, prenatal care, sexually transmitted infections, HIV/AIDS, youth violence reduction, and children's health.  CHOICE seeks to empower health care consumers to make the best possible decisions for themselvesby exploring all available options and relevant facts.  Our community education programs reach youth, parents, teachers, and other professionals with high quality, comprehensive, and creative curricula.  CHOICE advocates on behalf of those who encounter barriers to public health services – regardless of race, class, gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or age; with a particular concern for the distinctive needs of youth and other minority populations who are commonly not well served by traditional institutions.

Contact: Brenda Green, Executive Director
1233 Locust Street, Suite 301
Philadelphia, PA 19107
Phone: 215-985-3355
Fax: 215-985-2838
TTY: 215-985-3309
Email: Info@choice-phila.org
Visit CHOICE online at http://www.choice-phila.org
Visit CHOICE Teen online at www.choiceteens.org
Visit 'Where to Find' online at www.wheretofind.org
  • CHOICE Hotline: 215-985-3300
  • CHOICE Teen Hotline: 1-800-84-TEENS
  • Pennsylvania State AIDS Factline: 1-800-662-6080
  • Blueprint for a Safer Philadelphia: 1-888-570-BLUE
  • Maternal and Children's Health Line: 215-985-3301
  • Línea Español: 215-985-3350


Community Women's Education Project provides secondary and post-secondary education preparation, educational support systems, and connections to the workplace for low income women and their families in their community. Community Women's Education Project also provides quality early learning education for infants and young children. Since the agency's founding in 1977, more than 17,000 adults and children have benefitted from Community Women's Education Project programs, developing the educational skills they need to move into economic self-sufficiency.

Contact: Alexis Brown, Executive Director
2801 Frankford Avenue
Philadelphia, PA 19134
Phone: 215-426-2200
Fax: 215-426-3284
E-mail: cwepmain@cwep.org
Visit Community Women's Education Project online at www.cwep.org


DAP provides services to nearly 5,000 victims of domestic violence and their children residing in Delaware County each year. Free, confidential services include: 24-hour hotline, options counseling, advocacy, assistance in gaining protection from abuse orders, legal representation in protection from abuse and custody matters, court accompaniment, emergency shelter, transitional housing, support groups and community education.

Contact: Rita Buckley Connolly, MA, JD, Executive Director
14 West 2nd Street
Media, PA 19063
Phone: 610-565-6272
Fax: 610-565-9911
Website: www.dapdc.org


The Supportive Older Women's Network (SOWN) is an innovative non-profit agency dedicated to helping women over age 50 cope with their complex lives. SOWN provides support group services, individual counseling, workshops and advocacy to enable women to manage issues in their daily lives.

These services include:

  • Community support groups
  • Telephone support groups for homebound women
  • Caregiver support groups
  • Grandparent raising grandchildren support services

Contact: Merle Drake, Executive Director
4100 Main Street, Suite 200
Philadelphia, PA 19127
Phone: 215-487-3000
Fax: 215-487-3111
E-mail: info@sown.org
Visit Supportive Older Women's Network online at www.sown.org


Tenant Union Representative Network provides free tenant rights classes, individual tenant counseling, housing discrimination assistance and tenant union organizing.

Contact: Phil Lord, Executive Director
1315 Walnut Street, 3rd Floor
Philadelphia, PA 19107
Phone: 215-940-3900
Fax: 215-940-3910
Visit Tenant Union Representative Network online at: www.rturn.net


Women Organized Against Rape offers critical services for sexual assault and sexual abuse victims/survivors, their families, and the Philadelphia community, including: counseling and information through a 24-hour hotline; accompaniment and support in designated hospital emergency rooms; accompaniment and advocacy at court; short-term counseling and support groups; and community education programs, training services, public information and media appearances about sexual assault and its prevention.

Contact: Carole Johnson, Executive Director
One Penn Center at Suburban Station
1617 JFK Blvd. - Suite 1100
Philadelphia, PA 19103
Phone: 215-985-3315
Hotline: 215-985-3333
Fax: 215-985-9111
Visit Women Organized Against Rape online at www.woar.org
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