Using a clothesline, YWCA Dayton’s Preble County Office created a powerful display of violence statistics that often go ignored. For the last week of April, at the Preble County Courthouse, a pop-up clothesline was displayed with each shirt is made by a survivor of violence or by someone who has lost a loved one to… Continue Reading Clothesline Project powerfully displays violence statistics
The community once again came out in force to support Preble County domestic violence survivors, raising a record breaking $16,238 at Purple Paws: Preble Pets Against Domestic Violence. The annual fundraiser and pet showcase, which was held Oct. 1, is the only fundraiser at YWCA Dayton that exclusively support Preble County services. This includes the… Continue Reading Purple Paws breaks record, supports Preble County services
More than a third of adolescents in America experience sexual, physical, verbal, or emotional dating abuse, according to The NO MORE Project, and females between the ages of 16 and 24 are roughly three times more likely than the rest of the population to be abused by an intimate partner. While teens who suffer dating… Continue Reading Announcing Shift: A peer-to-peer initiative to prevent teen dating violence
Abuse affects the whole family. More than half of domestic violence victims are reluctant to leave their abusers because they’d also be abandoning their pets. Thanks to community partnerships with local veterinarians, SICSA Pet Adoption Center, and the Humane Society, YWCA Dayton connects women entering our domestic violence shelters – the only ones in Montgomery… Continue Reading Purple Paws: Preble Pets Against Domestic Violence sets fundraising record
Most lottery winners look forward to receiving a large sum of cash – but for one member of Team YWCA, her winning ticket was priceless. Miranda Armstead, rural advocate at YWCA Dayton, was the lucky recipient of a special experience, instead of a fortune, when she won a place in this year’s Leadership Preble County… Continue Reading Winning the leadership lottery