YWCA USA HQ

YWCA is dedicated to eliminating racism, empowering women and promoting peace, justice, freedom and dignity for all.

The YWCA mission is advanced through major mission impact programs and services including:

-YWCA racial justice and civil rights programs designed to address structural racism and achieve equity and equality for all.

-YWCA women's and girls' empowerment and economic advancement programs designed to address financial literacy, job training, skill development, childcare, teen, parenting, housing, immigrants' and refugees' needs.

-Wellness, specialized screening and exercise programs and counseling programs designed to keep women, girls and families healthy.

-Sexual assault, trafficking and domestic violence services and gender-based violence prevention programs designed to keep women, girls and families safe.

-National campaigns and advocacy on issues of national concern to women, girls, and people of color.

Inclusive social justice models and multi-faceted approaches that include direct service, advocacy, and issue education.

Connected national network focused on and committed to forwarding the YWCA mission.

Professional staff and curriculum-based programs.

Evidence-based program planning and implementation.

Outcome tracking and reporting.

160+ years of first-hand experience and trail-blazing efforts.

Largest network in the U.S. of service providers for survivors of domestic violence.

YWCA local associations and YWCA USA, since their founding, have played a significant role in national efforts to achieve women's equality, racial justice and civil rights. From organizing the first public women's employment bureau, first public women's reproductive health program, and the U.S.'s first interracial conference in the south to campaigning for laws to ensure workplace safety and equal pay as early as 1890 and establishing integrated public dining rooms as early as 1938, to securing funding for childcare, health, housing, and safety services for women and girls, YWCAs have been at the forefront of positive social change for more than 160 years. More milestones: www.ywca.org

Ahead - Mission fulfillment:
Racial justice and civil rights for all along with empowerment, economic advancement equality and equity, and the alleviation of health disparities and gender-based violence for all women and girls.