YWCA Lower Cape Fear is committed to helping individuals, organizations, and companies in the Lower Cape Fear region to improve race relations and find ways to eliminate racism through constructive dialogue and meaningful action. Programs include:
What's Wrong With Different? focuses on diversity, culture, ancestry, and self-esteem for elementary and middle school students in New Hanover, Brunswick, Pender, and Columbus Counties. The program is an interactive presentation that teaches students to understand and appreciate the differences in their communities and around the world.
Stand Against Racism provides the opportunity for our community to take a Stand Against Racism and unite our voices to educate, advocate, and promote racial justice.
Potluck for Peace is an effort to impact peaceful change in the community through food, fellowship, and enriching dialogue. By combining a wide variety of community members, we hope to create a powerful conversation about change, acceptable, and awareness. Potlucks are held quarterly.
Talk On Race is an effort to engage with the community in conversation as we race towards an equitable and just society. Each month we focus on a sector of society, and pull in experts and community leaders to discuss disparities, implicit and explicit bias, how racism shows up in their work, and their hope for our community and the future. Join us on the first Tuesday of each month on our Facebook page.
Talk On Health is a new series from YWCA Lower Cape Fear to explore health and wellness topics with experts in specific fields. Each month we bring panel of experts together to discuss health topics. The goal of this series is to educate, advocate, and empower the community to take charge of their health and work with the systems to close health disparities. Join us on the third Friday of each month on our Facebook page.
21 Day Racial Equity & Social Justice Challenge This challenge will encourage you and give you tools to be an anti-racist. It doesn’t require that you be perfect in any given situation but to be open to different cultures, new ways of thinking, and a willingness to learn. We highly encourage you to have a journal to use as a reflective tool during the daily ACTION challenges. The next 21 days will challenge you to take action and work against racism wherever you find it including, and perhaps most especially, in yourself.