Children – YWCA Spokane

TDVAM 2023

February 1, 2023

| By Lizbeth Reyes Soto

Categories: Community, Education and Training, Events, Impact, Other

| Tags: Children, community, Domestic Violence, education, prevention

Every February, a month long national initiative takes place to bring awareness to teen dating violence. Similar to intimate partner domestic violence, teen dating violence can take on many different forms and has a significant impact on our community. When we think about abuse, physical abuse is the first form to come to mind but …

Prevention Team Celebration At Rogers

June 3, 2022

| By Caroline Mark

Categories: Advocacy, Community, Education and Training, Get Involved

| Tags: Advocacy, Children, community, Community Engagement, Domestic Violence, education, prevention, prevention team

YWCA Spokane’s Prevention Team Celebrates the Recent Successful Completion of an Educational Series at John R. Rogers High School Focused on Health Relationships & Dating Violence During the spring semester, the YWCA Spokane Prevention Team spent one day a week for five weeks with students in a Rogers High School health class talking about healthy …

ECEAP Parent Spotlight – Karmen

May 28, 2021

| By Lauren Lepinski

Categories: Advocacy, Awards, Education and Training

| Tags: Advocacy, child advocacy, Children, Early Childhood Education, ECEAP, parent advocacy, WSA

Spokane ECEAP Parent Wins Unsung Hero Award This award honors outstanding caregivers doing important work on behalf of children. Each February, the Seattle’s Child magazine partners with the Washington Department of Children, Youth and Families to award 28 Washington caregivers with the Unsung Hero Award. This year, a local Spokane parent, Karmen, won the award! …

ECEAP Parent Spotlight – McKyndree

April 2, 2021

| By Lauren Lepinski

Categories: Advocacy, Education and Training

| Tags: Advocacy, advocate, child advocacy, Children, Community Engagement, Early Childhood Education, ECEAP, WSA, youth advocate

Parent Advocacy Is An Important Part of ECEAP Today we would like to highlight McKyndree Rogers. McKyndree is a parent whose child was enrolled in our Early Childhood Education and Assistance Program (ECEAP). Through her family’s engagement in our program, McKyndree began to learn skills about parent advocacy including how to advocate for her children’s …

Intimate Partner Violence vs. Domestic Violence

January 5, 2021

| By Olivia Moorer

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

| Tags: Advocacy, Children, Community Engagement, Domestic Violence, impact, youth advocate

Both legally and within YWCA Spokane’s operations, there is a difference between Intimate Partner Violence and Domestic Violence While they may appear to be the same thing, and certainly have much overlap, Domestic Violence and Intimate Partner Violence are two different terms with different meanings. Domestic Violence is violence that takes place within a household …