YOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF METROPOLITAN ST LOUIS MISSOURI
Eliminating Racism and Empowering Women
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Programs and results
What we aim to solve
YWCA Metro St. Louis is working to break down the barriers that prevent women and their families from reaching their fullest potential. The barriers we help break down include violence, poverty, lack of education, homelessness, and racial/ethnic/gender discrimination.
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
Early Head Start/Head Start
The Head Start Program of the Young Women's Association provides a comprehensive range of child development services encompassing the education, nutrition, health, and other needs of children, ages 3-5, from low-income families. The YWCA Early Head Start Program provides a comprehensive range of child development services encompassing the education, nutrition, health, and other needs of children from birth to 3 and pregnant women from low-income families.
We provide maternal care for improved outcomes. There are support programs for parents.
Housing
YWCA Permanent Supportive Housing program provides housing and support services for single women who are chronically homeless.
YWCA works to rapidly re-house women and children who are homeless due to domestic violence, sexual assault, human trafficking or stalking.
Sexual Assault Services
YWCA provides in-person crisis intervention to victims of sexual assault at 17 area hospital emergency rooms, offering support, resources and information about our free individual and group counseling. We offer court advocacy, trauma informed training for first responders, and community education
Domestic Violence Services
YWCA offers the area's only drop-in domestic violence center where no appointment is needed and there are no fees. YWCA offers resources, safety training, court advocacy, and community education. YWCA works to Rapidly Rehouse women and/or women with children who are homeless due to domestic violence, sexual assault or stalking.
Women's Economic Stability Program
Financial assistance and case management for single mothers who are enrolled in vocational certificate or degree programs to improve their earning power.
Racial Justice
YWCA Racial Justice offers community discussion groups and educational programs on gender and racial equity, and embeds the YWCA mission of eliminating racism and empowering women throughout all YWCA programs.
Where we work
Goals & Strategy
Learn about the organization's key goals, strategies, capabilities, and progress.
Charting impact
Four powerful questions that require reflection about what really matters - results.
What is the organization aiming to accomplish?
YWCA Metro St. Louis works for the safety, security and stability of women and their families in a world without discrimination.
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
YWCA Metro St. Louis is client-driven, client-centered, client-focused. We meet each woman "where she is" on her journey, paying attention to the whole woman and all of her needs. We use a holistic, trauma-informed approach. If a woman comes to us for one service, it is our goal to determine if she may be in need of another service that we offer so that we can support her with all the resources at our disposal if she wishes.
What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
YWCA Metro St. Louis provides crisis intervention and ongoing supportive services:
YWCA Metro St. Louis offers in-hospital crisis response to victims of sexual assault and domestic violence, individual and group counseling, court advocacy, and case management.
YWCA Metro St. Louis works to empower women by supporting single mothers earning vocational degrees to improve their earning power with stipends for essentials like housing, tuition, health care, or child care along with intensive case management and financial education.
YWCA Metro St. Louis provides housing and support to chronically homeless women.
YWCA Metro St. Louis rapidly re-houses victims of domestic violence, sexual assault and stalking.
YWCA Metro St. Louis provides Early Head Start/Head Start services for children age 0-5 whose families are at or below the federal poverty and maternity services to encourage healthy outcomes.
YWCA Metro St. Louis provides diversity training and free, public discussion groups on issues of race and gender.
YWCA Metro St. Louis provides teen leadership services.
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
YWCA Metro St. Louis has been serving women and children since 1904, when we formed to provide housing for rural women coming to St. Louis for work at the World's Fair. More than a century later, we are still providing housing for women who need us, and much more.
You can measure our impact in the hundreds of thousands of women and children who have received our services since 1904 or the social reforms we have championed like voting rights, fair housing, racial justice, and equal pay.
The needs of women have changed through the decades and our services have evolved to meet those needs. We once offered typing classes to help women gain employment. Today, we support women earning STEM degrees. Our evolution will continue in future decades as we fight for the safety, security and stability of women and their children.
(Indicators/Results for 2017 in previous question)
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The people, governance practices, and partners that make the organization tick.
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YOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF METROPOLITAN ST LOUIS MISSOURI
Board of directorsas of 01/29/2024
Mrs. Amy Williams
Edward Jones
Term: 2017 - 2024
Vice Chair Erica Glanz
Bunzl North America
Term: 2021 - 2026
Julie Davidson
Kerry Caverly
Parents as Teachers
Chairwoman Amy Williams
Edward Jones
Vice-Chairwoman Erica L. Glanz
Bunzl North America
Vice-Chairwoman Karen Jordan
Dentons US LLP
Vice-Chairwoman Colleen Lucas
Anheuser-Busch
Treasurer Aisha White
RubinBrown
Secretary Dayna Stock, Ph.D.
The Rome Group
Lindsay Auer
Standing Partnership
Ruth Barasa
NaRfula Financial Solutions, LLC
Meghan Brown
Weber Shandwick, Inc.
Julie Donnelly
St. Louis CITY SC
Rhonda Garrett
Cigna
Rebecca Guzman
YWCA Young Ambassadors
Jackie Janus
FleishmanHillard
Tara McConkey
Commerce Bank
Patricia Penelton
Phyllis Wheatley YWCA Committee on Administration
Genetta Robinson
YWCA Head Start Policy Council
Ex-Officio Cathy Arshadi
Commerce Trust Company
Board leadership practices
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Board orientation and education
Does the board conduct a formal orientation for new board members and require all board members to sign a written agreement regarding their roles, responsibilities, and expectations? Yes -
CEO oversight
Has the board conducted a formal, written assessment of the chief executive within the past year ? Yes -
Ethics and transparency
Have the board and senior staff reviewed the conflict-of-interest policy and completed and signed disclosure statements in the past year? Yes -
Board composition
Does the board ensure an inclusive board member recruitment process that results in diversity of thought and leadership? Yes -
Board performance
Has the board conducted a formal, written self-assessment of its performance within the past three years? Yes
Organizational demographics
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Leadership
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Equity strategies
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- We review compensation data across the organization (and by staff levels) to identify disparities by race.
- We ask team members to identify racial disparities in their programs and / or portfolios.
- We analyze disaggregated data and root causes of race disparities that impact the organization's programs, portfolios, and the populations served.
- We disaggregate data to adjust programming goals to keep pace with changing needs of the communities we support.
- We employ non-traditional ways of gathering feedback on programs and trainings, which may include interviews, roundtables, and external reviews with/by community stakeholders.
- We disaggregate data by demographics, including race, in every policy and program measured.
- We have long-term strategic plans and measurable goals for creating a culture such that one’s race identity has no influence on how they fare within the organization.
- We use a vetting process to identify vendors and partners that share our commitment to race equity.
- We have a promotion process that anticipates and mitigates implicit and explicit biases about people of color serving in leadership positions.
- We seek individuals from various race backgrounds for board and executive director/CEO positions within our organization.
- We have community representation at the board level, either on the board itself or through a community advisory board.
- We help senior leadership understand how to be inclusive leaders with learning approaches that emphasize reflection, iteration, and adaptability.
- We measure and then disaggregate job satisfaction and retention data by race, function, level, and/or team.
- We engage everyone, from the board to staff levels of the organization, in race equity work and ensure that individuals understand their roles in creating culture such that one’s race identity has no influence on how they fare within the organization.