YW Mission Moves presents Gem City Earth Tones, a face-to-face and live stream conversation series at the Gem City Market Community Room lifting up the call for justice within communities of color, capturing the voices of those left unheard, and centering the goals of YWCA Dayton to eliminate racism, empower women, and promote peace, justice, freedom, and dignity for all. Join us every fourth Monday to be a part of the community shift in our knowledge, understanding, and skills of navigating justice. Sponsored by Equitas Health.
YW MISSION MOVES: GEM CITY EARTH TONES
Aug 23: The Color of Health Care (racism in health care)
Sept 27: “Mom Voice” (maternal healthcare & infant mortality)
Oct 25: Silent Cries (mental health & suicide awareness)
Nov 22: Growling Stomachs (food insecurity)
Dec 27: School Bells Will Be Ringing (education in the community)
Ensuring access to the voting booth is an important part of YWCA’s commitment to eliminating racism and empowering women and is critical to ensuring a healthy, safe, empowered future for our communities.
Ratified in 1920, the 19th Amendment was a monumental step in empowering women by giving them the right to vote. However, the power structures built on the assumption that women, and especially women of color, would be forever excluded from the political process remain rigidly in place, and people continue to fight over what it means for women to have political power, or whether they truly have it.
Join us for a community conversation about YWomen Vote, the history of voting challenges, and the continued barriers that women face in America. We’ll also look ahead at practical ways individual citizens can influence public policy and make their voices heard so that women remain a driving force on issues big and small – every single year.
Free to attend. REGISTER NOW
YWCA Dayton is on a mission to eliminate racism and empower women. Previous Y-Dub Discussion topics have included: the effects of trauma within the classroom; recognizing childhood trauma and toxic stress; the political marginalization of women of color; allyship; racism as a public health crisis; and more. Follow the conversation on social using #YDubDiscussions. Questions? Contact advocacy@ywcadayton.org.
Especially during this challenging pandemic, YWCA Dayton is proud to offer a virtual way for survivors and their loved ones to access support. Weekly online group chats for sexual assault survivors, friends/family of survivors, and those seeking information and resources about sexual health are held in partnership with RAINN per the schedule below. Follow link below to join. HelpRoom is an anonymous, confidential online group chat option that allows those who have been affected by sexual violence to connect with one another. Trained staff facilitate these group discussions to ensure a safe environment for all visitors.
HelpRoom link: https://affiliate.rainn.org/helproom/ywcadayton
Especially during this challenging pandemic, YWCA Dayton is proud to offer a virtual way for survivors and their loved ones to access support. Weekly online group chats for sexual assault survivors and friends/family are held in partnership with RAINN. As an affiliate partner of RAINN, YWCA Dayton is able to use RAINN’s technology to manage its own online support group, or HelpRoom. HelpRoom is an anonymous, confidential online group chat option that allows those who have been affected by sexual violence to connect with one another. Trained staff facilitate these group discussions to ensure a safe environment for all visitors. Follow link below to join.
HelpRoom link: https://affiliate.rainn.org/helproom/ywcadayton
Each October, YWCA Dayton recognizes the strength and resilience of domestic violence survivors at a special fundraising event to support YWCA Dayton’s domestic violence shelter and support services, including its 24-hour crisis hotline. Formerly called the YWomen Breakfast, it has been refreshed (and expanded!) as the Voices Against Violence Breakfast and the Voices Against Violence Lunch to better reflect the platform it provides for both survivors and supporters to be a voice for change.
To ensure community safety during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, this event has shifted from a live, in-person occurrence to a month-long online fundraising challenge. As an individual or as a team, be a Voice for survivors by starting your fundraising page today. Exciting prizes will be given to the people, and teams, raising the most funds by the end of October! Sign up to attend a team captain orientation HERE and start your fundraising page now HERE.
Thank you to our generous sponsors!
Presenting: Montgomery County ADAMHS
Empowerment: CareSource, Riegel Financial
Especially during this challenging pandemic, YWCA Dayton is proud to offer a virtual way for survivors and their loved ones to access support. Weekly online group chats for sexual assault survivors and friends/family are held in partnership with RAINN. As an affiliate partner of RAINN, YWCA Dayton is able to use RAINN’s technology to manage its own online support group, or HelpRoom. HelpRoom is an anonymous, confidential online group chat option that allows those who have been affected by sexual violence to connect with one another. Trained staff facilitate these group discussions to ensure a safe environment for all visitors. Follow link below to join.
HelpRoom link: https://affiliate.rainn.org/helproom/ywcadayton
Especially during this challenging pandemic, YWCA Dayton is proud to offer a virtual way for survivors and their loved ones to access support. Weekly online group chats for sexual assault survivors and friends/family are held in partnership with RAINN. As an affiliate partner of RAINN, YWCA Dayton is able to use RAINN’s technology to manage its own online support group, or HelpRoom. HelpRoom is an anonymous, confidential online group chat option that allows those who have been affected by sexual violence to connect with one another. Trained staff facilitate these group discussions to ensure a safe environment for all visitors. Follow link below to join.
HelpRoom link: https://affiliate.rainn.org/helproom/ywcadayton
Join us and co-facilitators from the Greater Dayton LGBT Center on the first Monday of each month for this community support group for anyone identifying as LGBTQIA affected by sexual violence: survivors, family, friends, and/or loved ones.
Your story matters. YWCA Dayton and Family Services/Womanline are proud to collaborate on this monthly support group for survivors of sexual assault. Held every first Tuesday at Family Services in Moraine, groups are facilitated by trained, trauma-informed, confidential advocates. Survivors of all gender identities over the age of 18 are welcome. No RSVP necessary; no cost to attend.
Especially during this challenging pandemic, YWCA Dayton is proud to offer a virtual way for survivors and their loved ones to access support. Weekly online group chats for sexual assault survivors, friends/family of survivors, and those seeking information and resources about sexual health are held in partnership with RAINN per the schedule below. Follow link below to join. HelpRoom is an anonymous, confidential online group chat option that allows those who have been affected by sexual violence to connect with one another. Trained staff facilitate these group discussions to ensure a safe environment for all visitors.
HelpRoom link: https://affiliate.rainn.org/helproom/ywcadayton