Racial Justice e-Newsletter

Hello Everyone!

  The staff at the YWCA would like to wish you all Happy Holidays.  We are looking forward to great New Year and hope you will join us in keeping the Racial Justice Programs growing.

Thank you to Comcast for supporting Youth Racial Justice Programs

Welcome to the YWCA Racial Justice Community  

Volume I, Issue 2

12/20/04

Racial Justice Get Together

 January 11th, 5:00-6:30pm

Vision Mark’s office

2851 N Country Club Road

 

Let’s Get Real Facilitator Training

January 13th, 4:30-6:30pm

Doubletree Hotel, Palo Verde Room

 

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday

January 15th

March with the YWCA

Details pending

 

Let’s Get Real Presentation to Cholla High School

January 18th, 20th, 21st

Attend the training mentioned above and start facilitating!

Details will be provided at upcoming events.  Your help is greatly appreciated for this event.

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The Fox Network created a commercial to honor the Racial Justice Youth Committees for their recent award from the Governor’s office.  Photos from the Youth Forum on Race make up the spot so look for young people you might know!  It is now airing and should run until the end of the year.

YWCA on Fox Network

To the following volunteers for recent presentations.

Patti Behr

Ade Santana

Tim Wernette

Cherilyn Gain

Tiffany Tom

Sat Bir Kaur Khalsa

Ross Iwamoto

Pamela Doherty

Lisa Lawson

Amanda Kraus

Albert Soto

 

Text Box: THANK YOU!

Upcoming Events

Congratulations

The Youth Racial Justice Program was recently awarded a grant from our supporters at Comcast.  The $20,000 Comcast Initiative will enable the Youth Program to partner with Pima County Youth Opportunity (YO), to train ten new youth facilitators and recruiat 300 additional program participants.  The YO programs serve youth from Tucson’s Empowerment Zone, especially out-of-school youth seeking assistance with education, training, and/or employmentThe YWCA thanks Comcast for their generosity and are excited to work with Youth Opportunity. 

Interested in Digging Deeper?

Test Yourself on Hidden Bias with this test from the website at Tolerance.org

 

http://tolerance.org/hidden_bias/index.html