Black Maternal Health Week: The Topeka Doula Project

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Black Maternal Health Week: The Topeka Doula Project
Wednesday, April 12, 2023

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

Can we end racism with the lessons learned from the pandemic?
Thursday, February 16, 2023

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?

The Work Continues
Wednesday, August 3, 2022

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

Better Because of Her
Tuesday, March 29, 2022

March is Women’s History Month, and YWCA Northeast Kansas is celebrating the women leaders past and present devoted to our mission of eliminating racism and empowering women. From the women who worked to build our first permanent building in 1911, to our current board of directors working today to lead us through challenges and opportunity… Continue Reading Better Because of Her

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