Get Involved – YWCA Spokane

May RSJ Spotlight

May 23, 2023

Categories: Advocacy, Community, Education and Training, Get Involved, Impact, Spokane Resources

| Tags: Advocacy, APIC Spokane, Coalition of Color, equity, Lands Council, Muslims for Community Action, Racial & Social Justice, resources, rsj, RSJ Spotlight, Spokane Low Income Housing Consortium, Spotlight

Racial & Social Justice Spotlight Series Each month, our Equity Coordinator, Lara, sits down with an organization or individual in our community to spotlight the work they do to create real and lasting change for a more equitable Spokane. 45 min. listen May Spotlight Naghmana Sherazi, Community Outreach & Advocacy Organizer, APIC Spokane Naghmana Sherazi …

End the Violence Toolkit Launch

May 10, 2023

| By Jemma Riedel-Johnson

Categories: Community, Education and Training, Get Involved, Impact, Spokane Resources

| Tags: end the violence, SRDVC, toolkit

Domestic Violence Requires A Community Response Yesterday, May 9th, 2023, the Spokane Regional Domestic Violence Coalition (SRDVC), in collaboration with Providence Health, officially launched the End the Violence Toolkit for businesses. The toolkit serves as a resource for employers on how to educate their staff on domestic violence issues. YWCA Spokane was pleased to serve …

April RSJ Spotlight

May 4, 2023

| By Lara Estaris

Categories: Advocacy, Community, Get Involved, Impact

| Tags: art, equity, mixed media art, Racial & Social Justice, resources, rsj, RSJ Spotlight, Spotlight

Racial & Social Justice Spotlight Series Each month, our Equity Coordinator, Lara, sits down with an organization or individual in our community to spotlight the work they do to create real and lasting change for a more equitable Spokane. 2 min. read April Spotlight Tracy Poindexter-Canton Way back during the lockdown in March of 2020, …

2023 Equity For All – Recap

May 2, 2023

| By Lara Estaris

Categories: Advocacy, Community, Education and Training, Events, Get Involved, Impact, Other

| Tags: equity, Equity For All, event, mental health resources, Racial & Social Justice, rsj, Spokane

2023 Equity for all recap Thank you to everyone who joined us for YWCA Spokane’s annual courageous conversation. Last Friday, April 28th, we hosted this year’s Equity For All event at the Woman’s Club of Spokane with a panel discussion led by key experts in the mental health field. Participants had the option of joining …

March RSJ Spotlight

March 1, 2023

| By Lara Estaris

Categories: Advocacy, Community, Get Involved, Impact, Spokane Resources

| Tags: equity, generational wealth, home ownership, Latrice Williams, Learning Community, Racial & Social Justice, real estate, real estate brokering, resources, rsj, RSJ Spotlight, Spotlight, Williams Homegirl Sells

Image of a Black woman with long wavy hair, wearing a black hat and tan blazer with text that reads, "Sometimes we're remiss when we don't think about the youth that are our future. They're the future. So if we teach them when they're young enough to be able to retain, to be able to sustain knowledge, then we have changed the world. And that's what our goal is."

Racial & Social Justice Spotlight Series Each month, our Equity Coordinator, Lara, sits down with an organization or individual in our community to spotlight the work they do to create real and lasting change for a more equitable Spokane. 45 min. listen March Spotlight Latrice Williams and Williams Homegirl Sells at Vision Properties It is …