The stage is set for women to be a driving force in 2020. 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. From helping domestic violence survivors vote safely to securing transportation… Continue Reading YWomen Vote initiative ensures all voices are heard
Along with over 200 associations across the country, YWCA Dayton is proud to launch Until Justice Just Is, a campaign designed to bring awareness to the pervasiveness of systemic racism and our commitment to ending systemic and institutional racism. Against this year’s long-overdue nationwide reckoning with racism, communities, companies, and individuals everywhere are searching for… Continue Reading YWCA launches ‘Until Justice Just Is’ campaign
Voting is critical to ensuring a healthy, safe, and empowered future for us, our families, and our communities, but challenges to the voting process posed by the COVID-19 global pandemic, along with pre-existing systemic and historical barriers to the voting booth for communities of color, have made YWCA’s collective commitment to civic engagement even more… Continue Reading #YWomenVote campaign encourages civic engagement
More than 6,000 people participated in YWCA Dayton’s third signature 21-Day Racial Equity and Social Justice Challenge – a group more than five times greater than the last Challenge cohort in spring 2020. “The response was incredible,” said Advocacy Manager Sarah Wolf-Knight. “It was clear from the minute we announced this special edition of the… Continue Reading 21-Day Challenge breaks records
YWCA Dayton delivered the following testimony to the Ohio Senate Health, Human Services and Medicaid Committee in support of S.C.R. 14 during its second hearing on June 24, 2020. S.C.R. 14 would declare racism a public health crisis in the State of Ohio. Watch the hearing recording HERE or at the bottom of this post.… Continue Reading S.C.R. 14 Testimony
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