YWCA Brooklyn

Our annual College Decision Day Rally is for congratulating our graduating high school seniors on their accomplishments and celebrating their collage acceptance decisions! Let's wish these bright young women the best as they take this exciting next step.

New Yorkers are losing thousands of dollars every year due to unfair pay practices. This income is essential for basic expenses like groceries, rent, tuition, and healthcare, and its loss makes New York increasingly unaffordable for families already stretched thin. We need to urge leadership to bring this bill to the floor: https://equalrights.quorum.us/campaign/162736/

A duo of civic-minded neighborhood kids took action, setting up a table to offer passersby an opportunity to support the residents in our building. They sold games of chess or Othello, cold drinks for 50¢, and custom poems. Such a sweet community gift on a pleasant spring afternoon. Thank you AK & M 🧡

Major congratulations to YW LEADer, Taylor, 🎓 who just graduated cm laude from Mount Sinai Phillips School of Nursing! Your hard work has paid off, and we wish you all the best as you start your nursing career.

On April 29, our YW LEADers took to the streets for the official NYC March and Rally, holding their signs as a show of solidarity with survivors. The march began at Brooklyn Borough Hall, led the marchers across the Brooklyn Bridge and culminated at David Dinkins Municipal Building where speakers addressed the crowd. Participating in this event each year is an act of protest against sexual violence and a powerful public challenge to victim-blaming myths.

Another in the books! cc: New York City Council Member Rita Joseph, Council Member Gale A. Brewer, Shanel Thomas-Henry, Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso

As part of the YWCA National Network, we are proud to stand alongside our sister Associations across the nation that provide critical services and support to survivors of sexual assault and their families.

As we recognize a quarter of a century of uniting us in the common mission to end sexual assault once and for all, let's celebrate the service providers and advocates who work each day to build the road to healing and lift the voices and experiences of survivors.

Defend Your Denim is our annual advocacy event with where young people come together for a day of training, art and empowerment in solidarity with survivors. Our students made signs that they would later march across the city on to demand that consent is key, and to dispel harmful myths about sexual assault.

Our BAM Earth Day event was a celebratory culmination of an engaging 2-month leadership process with our 10th grade YWLeaders. The students tabled and taught younger kids about the earth and helped them create “seed bombs” so they can grow their own wildflowers.

Join us tomorrow, Saturday, April 25th as we march across the Brooklyn Bridge to take a stand against teen dating violence! Register here: https://forms.office.com/r/ank5hXeUe8