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 During one week in October, our YWCA joins YWCAs all over the USA and the world to call attention to violence and its corrosive effects on individuals and communities. We sponsor or collaboratively offer programs and events that explore the causes of and alternatives to violent behavior. We encourage our members to help us plan and carry-out each year's Week Without Violence activities.
OWN Your Power:
Forming Healthy Intimate Partner Relationships
Monday, October 19, 4:00 – 5:00 pm Eastern Time
Geared especially for young “Gen Y” women, ages 18 to 30, this webinar will provide a safe space to explore their own power to create healthy intimate partner relationships – their unique psychology, how to assess the health of their relationships, and how to recognize less obvious forms of abusive behavior in their relationships. The featured speaker will be Dr. Janet Taylor, a psychiatrist based in New York City who is a frequent guest expert on CBS’s Early Show, NBC’s Today Show, and CNN’s Nancy Grace. She is also board chair of the Black Women’s Health Imperative and the mother of four daughters. Register here.
Economic Abuse: Its Role in Domestic Violence
Wednesday, October 21, 12:30 – 1:30 pm Eastern Time
This webinar explores the relationship of economic abuse to issues of power and control involved in domestic violence, as well as strategies that empower women to recognize, confront and overcome it. Speakers include Judy Postmus, PhD, founder and director of the Center on Violence Against Women & Children and assistant professor of social work at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, NJ, and Kalyn Risker, founder and executive director of Sisters Acquiring Financial Empowerment (SAFE), in Detroit, MI. Register here. (These same speakers will also appear at an October 20th Capitol Hill briefing that YWCA USA is co-hosting with Women’s Policy, Inc.)
Providing Services While Confronting State Budget Cuts
Thursday, October 22, 2:00 – 3:00 pm Eastern Time
This webinar is for local association staff that are grappling with state budget cuts to their domestic violence and sexual assault service programs. It will explore how dramatically these YWCA services have been impacted and advocacy efforts to confront the budget cuts. Speakers include Delia Coleman, government relations officer of YWCA Metropolitan Chicago; Maureen Powers, executive director of YWCA Lancaster, PA; Silissa Uriarte Smith, executive director of YWCA Harbor Area, CA; and Jon Shure, deputy director, State Fiscal Project at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Washington, DC. Register here.
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