After seven years of service at the helm of the only YWCA in the state of Kansas, YWCA Northeast Kansas CEO Kathleen Marker has publicly announced her plans to retire effective at the end of March 2024. “I have confidence in the board of directors and the leadership team as they search for the next leader of… Continue Reading YWCA Northeast Kansas CEO Kathleen Marker Announces Retirement in 2024
Black Maternal Health Week was founded by the Black Mamas Matter Alliance, a national network of Black women-led organizations and professionals. This week is a chance to amplify the voices and experiences of Black birthing people and Black-led maternal health programs, and center reproductive and birth justice. Local Resource: The Topeka Doula Project, Inc. Here… Continue Reading Black Maternal Health Week: The Topeka Doula Project
In a recently published article, “Racism Is a Public Health Crisis: Social Workers Leading the Charge,” YWCA Advocacy Committee Co-Chair Tara Wallace, MSW, LSCSW, draws connections between racism, public health, and the lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic. Social workers were uniquely positioned as professionals who were not only frontline workers during the pandemic, but… Continue Reading Can we end racism with the lessons learned from the pandemic?
If you read the news at all this year, you know that reproductive rights were a major headline. Kansans made history as the first state to vote on the right to abortion after the United States Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June. YWCA stood true to its mission and history as a leader… Continue Reading YWCA Answers the Call for Justice
In a primary election that saw historic new voter registrations and turnout, Kansans solidly defeated a ballot initiative that would have stripped women and birthing people of their constitutional right to an abortion. We raised our voices together and said “No.” And so, today, women and birthing people in Kansas maintain a constitutional right to… Continue Reading The Work Continues