Suitcase Women's Clinic

Run by  in affiliation with UC Berkeley and UC San Francisco.

To enter, go down the walkway on the west side of the building and ring the bell to the door on the left. Shelter staff will let you in. The Women’s Clinic mainly serves the group of women who seek assistance at the Dwight Way Women’s Shelter, caring for roughly thirty clients per night on average. Nevertheless, all services are available to nonresidents, provided on a first-come, first-served basis with a priority to clients who have not previously received services.

Services Offered

• Medical services (biweekly);
• A homoeopathist comes to offer homeopathy, a system for treating disease based on the administration of minute doses of a drug that in massive amounts produces symptoms in healthy individuals similar to those of the disease itself;
• Optometry (appointment referrals) provides a preliminary eye examination for clients at the clinic site given by graduate students in the UCB School of Optometry. Clients needing glasses as diagnosed and then scheduled for a full eye examination at the Meredith W. Morgan University Eye Center on the UC Berkeley campus.
• Chiropractic (biweekly) services provide adjustments given by volunteer professional chiropractors from the community. They mostly treat clients who suffer from minor back pain. Treatment consists of a chiropractic adjustment (directed and controlled pressure of individual spinal bones to their specific positions). Other additional treatments include ice, heat, nutritional advice, and exercise;
• Legal services;
• A masseuse or UC Berkeley volunteers and students from Health and Medical Sciences 98/198 provide massage to relax muscle tension;
• Manicure, pedicure and nail painting;
• Foot Care has volunteer students provide gentle podiatric care, hand out nail clippers, emery boards and anti-fungal to our clients, who often walk for hours and have limited access to showers;
• Health education and hygiene supplies;
• Children’s activities and services;
• Continuity of Care Advocates (CoCA).