We have a long and proud history, pursuing our mission of eliminating racism and empowering women that continues today. Today we serve over 30, people each year through award-winning programs, classes and workshops.
Minneapolis women stress a need for meeting place, especially during the lunch hour. A lunchroom and rest areas are provided. The first floor contains a gymnasium and a dressing room. Check out the programming slate for How to Build a FeministRecovery Budget in ? From British Columbia to Alberta to Northwest Territories to Ontario to Quebec to Nova Scotia and beyond, our YWCA colleagues across the country have been relentless in their desire for a gender-responsive approach to post-pandemic recovery.
Well, we are doing something about it. Self-Care: What does it look like for you and everyone else? The need for self-care is more evident than ever, however traditional notions of self-care have been turned upside down with the need to adhere to Public Health safety regulations.
Lead Now! This consultation process will provide an avenue for eligible organizations to provide input on the National Action Plan to End Gender-Based Violence. Hear her reflections on her leadership journey, what motivates her to get involved in her community, and her advice for fellow youth activists. These organizations provide a vital lifeline to communities, and especially women, providing essential services and programs.
The charities that help struggling Canadians are struggling, too W. One thing is true of our organizations. We exist because communities need us. Over eight million Canadians rely on us every year. We offer spaces where children safely learn and play while their parents work, a hot meal and a place to rest for the night, a first job or resources during times of unemployment, the support people need to break through barriers, and so much more.
We are the heart of Canadian communities, helping those living in vulnerable situations, and right now we are struggling. Integrating Sustainability Into Investments: The New Normal Diversifying your portfolio among securities that target social issues has never been as easy as it is today. Learn what gender lens investing is and how you can apply this strategy to your portfolio. How do you teach digital literacy online in a pandemic to people who have basic online experience?
We know how important digital literacy is and, this year, as we have moved lives online, it has become even more critical to support people to build these skills.
This is a 4-year research and knowledge mobilization project that will work with a variety of sectors to co-create concrete solutions for online hate speech and hate crime in communities across Canada. Week Without Violence During a Pandemic The Week Without Violence, marked worldwide in the third week of October is a global campaign to end violence in our communities.
Take Action. Stop Violence Before It Starts. Read on to check out the full calendar. Through their support, YWCAs across the country will be able to continue to provide essential services such as child care, housing and shelter services. This is part of a three-year national participatory research and knowledge mobilization project addressing the unique challenges of labour market access for vulnerable women in Canada.
Synergy will pilot, evaluate, and share three promising workforce development practices aimed at building social resilience among vulnerable women. YWCA Canada did not properly cite authorship of this list; the list was created and vetted by Black womxn in a private Facebook group, without respectful acknowledgement and citation of their expertise, time, scholarship and labour. It was a private conversation that was made public without consent of the authors.
She was full time youth pastor with the church for over 10 years and went on to lead a range of community projects with organisations like YMCA Ireland and Summer Madness. Katie Lynch, Vice-chair Katie studied Sociology and International Development, she is fascinated by the issues our societies are grappling with. With a keen sense of justice, she is delighted to be in a role where she can use her skills and her voice to speak up for those in marginalised and difficult situations.
She is passionate about gender equality and seeing women fulfill their God-given potential. At that time, wealthy women could travel to Europe for contraceptive services not available in the United States. The national board voted in to support women's access to contraception from authorized doctors. In the s and s the group also voted to support women's access to abortions. The YWCA also ran health and fitness programs for women.
Local chapters often worked with employers to instruct women workers in moderate physical exercise. Early in the century, the prevailing view was that women were too frail for the kinds of sports activities that men indulged in. The YWCA led the way in changing attitudes about women's physical fitness. Chapters gave classes in calisthenics and various sports. Though the association remained decentralized, spread among hundreds of local chapters, the national board met every two years and adopted over-arching goals.
The group vowed to improve working conditions for employed women and girls, and also to cope with the problems of unemployment. At the meeting, the YWCA endorsed national compulsory unemployment insurance. The YWCA worked in the camps, and also helped resettle internees after the war. During the war, many local YWCA chapters also ran special programs for war workers and their families. The group helped house women munitions plant workers, provided child care and education to other groups of war workers, and assisted in some social functions at military bases.
The group had a National War Fund, for war-related relief work, mostly overseas. After the war, the YWCA continued its varied programs through local chapters. A major development was the group's renewed focus on fighting racism. The organization adopted a charter in committing the group to protesting racial injustice.
Work was carried out through individual local branches. In , the national board voted to intensify its efforts to desegregate the organization at all levels. Its programs and services were to be offered to women and families of all races, and the leadership of local groups and the national organization were to be more inclusive.
In the s, the YWCA held institutes on racism at different branches across the country. In it established a national Office of Racial Justice to coordinate a national campaign against racism. In , the national convention added to its mission statement what it called the One Imperative--"The Association will thrust its collective power toward the elimination of racism wherever it exists and by any means necessary.
The organization also continued its stress on women's physical fitness and sex education. In , the national board voted to work with local schools to ask that they provide sex education as part of the curriculum. The YWCA was also outspoken in its support of abortion rights.
The group supported repeal of laws that limited women's access to abortion. In the organization reiterated this support, and also proclaimed its opposition to laws that mandated parental consent before an abortion could be performed.
The local chapters continued to sponsor sports and fitness classes for girls and women, and to operate summer camps and summer programs. This gave the YWCA a permanent center where it could educate and train women from all over the country in the goals and policies of the national group. Women learned what goals the national organization had, and strategies for taking action.
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