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Celebration at TESC Longhouse (virtual)  - mark your calendar  - no registration option yet.

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Join CWD on Thursday, October 21st @ 5:00 pm as we host a panel of formerly incarcerated women as they share with us the challenges they faced rebuilding their lives. These challenges impact how they continue their education, find employment, and rebuild relationships with their families and friends.   These courageous women are using their experiences to advocate for laws, policies, and programs that expand access to resources and opportunities for formerly incarcerated women to build a new future for themselves, their families and communities. Join us to learn how you can support this work. Register today to reserve your spot. When: Thursday, October 21, 2021 at 5:00 pm Where: Online via Zoom Our Guests Sarai Cook Servant Leader and Attorney Brittany Lovely Washington Statewide Reentry Council Coordinator Tarra Simmons Director, Civil Survival Project, WA State Representative for 23rd Legislative District Our Moderator Jaime Hawk ACLU of Washington's Campaign for Smart Justice Visit our website to learn more about our panelists and moderator.

We are less than a month away from our 2021 Week Without Violence campaign, and hope you will join us as we center survivors and move Beyond Resilience: From Surviving to Thriving! YWCA’s annual Week Without Violence campaign is part of a global movement to end violence against women and girls powered by YWCAs and partners across the country and around the world. Throughout this weeklong campaign, we encourage you to join us in sharing information and highlighting ways that elevate stories, support survivors, engage policy makers, and take action to end gender-based and domestic violence and and to declare racism a public health crisis. For more information, read more about this year's theme. As always, our goal is to invite people across the country and around the globe to take a stand against all forms of violence. To reach this goal, we encourage all of you to participate by: Promoting and participating in our Week of Action which includes a social media storm, day of action, panel discussions, and so much more! Look for registration details for specific events next week. Share your selfies and group photos using one of our customizable signs, and be sure to tag @YWCAUSA on socials, use #WWV21, and then tag 5 friends and challenge them to do the same! Encourage your networks to donate so that a YWCA near you can continue to provide services such as safe and secure housing, crisis hotlines, counseling, and other community and safety programs to more than 535,000 survivors and 2.3 million women, children, and families across the country. Engage with your local legislators and urge your Member of Congress to take action to end gender-based violence and declare racism a public health crisis. Our collective efforts to create a world of freedom, justice, and dignity for all wouldn't be possible without the allies, advocates, and changemakers like you! Together, we can build a world where women, girls, and communities of color are empowered and supported to move beyond resilience, from surviving to thriving!

YWCA USA | www.ywca.org

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