YOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF MANKATO
127 S 2nd St Ste 200 No 200, Mankato, MN 56001 www.ywcamankato.org

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Organizations Filed Purposes: The YWCA is dedicated to eliminating racism, empowering women and promoting peace, justice, freedom and dignity for all. The YWCA reaches over 12,420 individuals a year. It provides needed, mission-focused services to build women's economic equity, empower women and girls, impact their families and build cross cultural competencies in the greater Mankato area.The YWCA of Mankato is: a non-profit, charitable organization and community resource; 417 volunteers contributed 8,836 hours of service worth $218,161 at $24.69 per hour (the MN rate for volunteer compensation).Affiliations: the YWCA Mankato is a local association that is affiliated with the YWCA of the USA. The YWCA Mankato also serves as an affiliate council of Girls on the Run International.

The YWCA is dedicated to eliminating racism, empowering women and promoting peace, justice, freedom and dignity for all. The YWCA Mankato has a vision to be a collaborative leader and catalyst for social change focused on gender and race.

Programming for women: The Elizabeth Kearney women's leadership program is a gender specific program designed to strengthen and enhance the leadership of women in their workplaces and the community. It takes a cohort of women through ten months of facilitated leadership training led by community leaders. Each participant creates an individual leadership plan that focuses on their individual leadership goals.The program served 43 women in 2019. Since its inception, the program has focused on five main themes: skill development, redefining power, balance, ethical leadership and reflection. The impact of the program on participants is transformative through monthly assessments, observation, and focus groups. The YWCA also offers an annual Women's Leadership Conference as an opportunity for women to learn and build skills and network with other area professionals. The Women's Leadership Conference was attended by 255 women in 2019. This conference focused around Gender Justice and Racial Justice.

Programming for New American Families In 2019, New American Families transitioned the focus a bit but are still serving immigrant and refugee women and their families, we are connecting them to resources to ensure basic needs are being met and empowering them towards self-determinacy. The New American Families Home-Visiting is early childhood focused in-home visiting program that works with parents to engage their children in developmental activities and preparing kids, ages 0-5, for kindergarten.New American Families utilizes the Parents as Teachers (PAT) evidence-based curriculum to assist families who have resettled in the United States and have children prenatal-5yrs. of age. These demographics are targeted due to the YWCA's mission of eliminating racism and empowering women understanding that not all have the privilege of access to information as it relates to the services we provide and our programmatic goals. Our Parent Educators typically identify with the cultures of those they serve having firsthand insight guiding their culturally sensitive approach. Additionally, it is our goal to provide services in the primary language of individuals served whenever possible as we recognize the value in terms of relationship building, honoring culture and heritage, and ensuring mutual understanding.PAT is a literacy-based curriculum which focuses on three essential components: Parent-Child Interaction, Development-Centered Parenting and Family Well-Being. Each of these components are woven into all individual and group meetings with families. The goals: - Improved child and health development - Reduced rates of child abuse and neglect - Increased school readiness - Increased parent involvement in children's care and education - Including families who have recently settled in the United States in building stronger communities by ensuring their families are thriving in a way that is equitable to those who are born in the United states and ensuring their children are safe and ready to learn upon entry into the traditional educational sector in the United States.In 2019, the YWCA served 51 people with Home Visiting; 26 children and 14 adults. Families do not pay any program fees to participate in Home Visiting.

Programming for girls: Girls on the Run serves girls in grades 3-5 while Heart & Sole serves girls in grades 6-8 along with a summer Camp GOTR, which serves girls entering grades 3-5. The mission of these three programs is to inspire girls to be joyful, healthy and confident. In 2019, the YWCA served 273 girls through these three programs in Mankato and surrounding rural communities. 45% of program participants received a full or partial scholarship to be in the program.Surge is a leadership program for grades 9-12 and is designed to help girls understand their own ability to control their future through their strengths, positive thinking, goal-setting and planning. 26 girls participated in the program in 2019 and 100% of Surge participants received full scholarships to participate in the program.GEARS is a summer program for girls entering 6-8 grade which introduces participants to all types of cycling teaching girls technical riding skills, mechanical skills for bike maintenance, safety and problem solving skills. Woven into the program are empowering and motivating activities to build self-esteem and develop a strong sense of team, where every girl counts.

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