Women On Maintaining Education and Nutrition (W.O.M.E.N.) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit, which was founded in 1996 with the mission to bridge service gaps to reduce health disparities. Created in Catherine Wyatt-Morley's home, W.O.M.E.N. has grown significantly in more than 15 years of operation. Wyatt-Morley's desire to create a safe place for women, mothers and families remain the central focus of programs and services. W.O.M.E.N. remains community-based, with all programs emphasizing peer-based advocacy.

W.O.M.E.N.'s purpose is to provide support, consultation, education, and nutrition for people infected/affected by HIV/AIDS. Our target population has specifically been African American women in Nashville, Davidson County Tennessee. However men, women and children have taken advantage of our services.

For many years clients have received services that include housing, food distribution; clothing closet, HIV counseling and testing, support group, direct care services to individuals living with HIV/AIDS, transportation, case management, education seminars, workshops, community forums, community health fairs, peer to peer education sessions, HIV positive patient education curricula, and street and college campus outreach and prevention. Outreach activities also include print media, radio and television.

The capacity of W.O.M.E.N. to address health disparities has grown each year since its inception. We provide both prevention and education to those at risk, and direct care services to individuals living with HIV/AIDS. W.O.M.E.N. is a Health Education and Risk Reduction (HERR) services provider. Community members who are disenfranchised, having low incomes, very high rates of infections, re-infections, and unprotected sex with IUD partners densely populate targeted zip codes. In addition to being a HERR service provider, the agency is certified in HIV testing and counseling and Stigma and HIV/AIDS training. W.O.M.E.N. has a long history with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and is (DEBI)- Diffusion of Effective Behavioral Interventions certified in such areas as SISTA, a group-level, social skills training intervention for African-American women aimed at reducing HIV sexual risk behaviors.

W.O.M.E.N. has had a positive influence on over 100,000 at risk women, youth, and other individuals with HIV prevention education, training, or counseling. Its Founder and Chief Executive Officer, and others, has represented the agency across the country through television, newspapers, books, video, health seminars, prevention education, and other forms of awareness.

W.O.M.E.N.'s Founder and Chief Executive Officer has represented the agency in such countries as Africa where she visited Lagos, Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, Ikeja, and Nigeria as well as Accra in Ghana. Her travel history also includes the stories of Thailand, and Poland, Nigerian, Ghanaian, Canadian, Switzerland, Guyana South America and Trinidadian women. In these countries the focus has been HIV/AIDS education, STD's, prevention, awareness, gaps in services, governmental issues, growing rates of worldwide infections amounts women, and gaps in treatment (i.e. clinical trials/vaccines) for women and families. W.O.M.E.N. intends to continue its outreach efforts abroad and has worked with UNAIDS in those efforts.

W.O.M.E.N. interests also include homelessness, race relations and reconciliation, human-trafficking, addiction and treatment, women and family empowerment programs, male and female cancers, family unity, and world interests. Each program established within W.O.M.E.N. will hold these truths in their development and practices.