Our Racial Justice Challenge is a virtual learning tool designed to create dedicated time and space to build more effective social justice habits, particularly those dealing with issues of race, power, privilege, and leadership. New content is released weekly.

Each week during our Racial Justice Challenge, we’re hosting webinar discussions of racial equity and social justice topics with panelists from various fields. These virtual discussions are free and open to all. Check out our upcoming webinars.

Will your design be the perfect match for this year’s Juneteenth: A Journey to Freedom Celebration? We can’t wait to see what you come up with.

Celebrate the historical significance of Juneteenth with YWCA Delaware at Battery Park, 1 Delaware Street, New Castle, Delaware on Saturday, June 22 from 11 a.m. until 2:00 p.m.

Join our RSJ fundraising walk and enjoy music, local vendors, food and drinks, fun games and giveaways. Scan QR Codes along the walking path to learn about Juneteenth history and triumphs along our journey to freedom. Event proceeds support YWCA Delaware’s Racial and Social Justice programs that have reached 7,000 participants in the last five years.Click the button below to access our early bird corporate and individual registration, to create a fundraising team or to sponsor this event.

Join Delaware’s GOTV Coalition, a diverse group of advocates and individuals committed to educating and mobilizing voters for the 2024 elections. Every election, from local School Board contests to the Governor's race, holds significance for our communities. That's why we're hosting candidate forums, setting up registration and education tables across the state, and reminding everyone of the importance of voting. We’re also expanding our coalition to welcome all organizations and individuals who share our vision. Regardless of media narratives, every election matters and your participation can make a difference. Together, let’s empower Delawareans to make their voices heard at the ballot box.

Informed by our 129-year history, YWCA Delaware is carrying on its long tradition of social action and advocacy to advance our mission. YWCA Delaware advocates at the state and local levels for practical solutions that meet the needs of women, girls and marginalized communities that bring us closer to eliminating racism, empowering women and ensuring peace, justice, freedom and dignity for all. Be the first to know about legislative news and ways to get involved with advocacy in Delaware.

We extend our heartfelt gratitude to everyone who joined us for our MLK Day of Action in person and virtually. During the event we discussed the importance of organizing, collective advocacy and unification. We also introduced our 2024 Policy Pillars and Advocacy Action Alerts. We thank Representative Larry Lambert, Senator Elizabeth Lockman and Community Advocate Lynne Kielhorn for sharing their experiences on why and how they chose to get involved in Delaware's legislative process. We also thank the Delaware Community Foundation (DCF) for providing a delicious catered meal before the start of our presentation.

We’re bringing the community together through truth-telling, reconcilation and racial healing. This process will help give voice to different perspectices and experiences.
Join us for 6-week consecutive weeks of online group discussions designed to promote ways for all of us to heal from past wounds, establish mutually respectful connections across racial and ethnic lines that honor and value each person’s humanity, and build trusting diverse community ties that better represent our common humanity.

YWCA Delaware’s YW Leaders program is designed to help high school students develop a better understanding of who they are while cultivating an appreciation and understanding for individuals of diverse backgrounds whose appearance, values, and interests differ from their own. Facilitator-led sessions are offered in-person or online through four educational modules. Students will engage in critical conversations and learn skills to become leaders in their communities as they advocate for racial and social justice. As the program grows, students will be given the opportunity to transition into leadership roles.

In our White Ally Workshop, you’ll learn how to use active listening, empathy, and personal storytelling to promote racial equity. It is designed for white allies to develop skills to engage racism skeptics in productive conversations with friends, family, and neighbors. It is designed to help white allies see the task of using their influence to bring other white people along on their lifelong mission of dismantling racism. Participants will leave with the opportunity to build a support system with other white allies and continue to develop the skills learned in the workshop. The workshop will use the curriculum designed by Dr. David Campt’s White Ally Toolkit.

This six-week history course raises the knowledge and awareness of untold history in America. This course begins with the history of enslaved Africans in the country that is now known as America in 1619 and goes through the history of voting rights and suppression up until 2023. Week six of the course challenges participants to explore actions to change systemic racial injustice and ensure a more equitable, diverse, inclusive, and just society. The course includes lectures, Q&A sessions and small group discussions.

Antiracist Programming to Eliminate Racism

YWCA Delaware’s Racial & Social Justice program strives to transform communities by changing consciousness, promoting inclusion and solidarity, and cultivating skills in individuals to advocate for justice and inspire a movement.

DTA Programs: Transformational Racial Healing Conversations | Racial Justice Challenge | White Ally Small Groups | Book Study Groups | Conversations About Racism

YWCA Delaware’s culturally inclusive organization programming strives to help our communities to develop diversity, equity and inclusion perspectives and practices to break through institutional patterns that lead to injustice.

DE & I Programs: On the Menu | Transforming White Privilege: A 21st Century Leadership Capacity | NarrateHER Traveling Exhibit | Local Emergency Action & Response Networks

Our resource list of books, articles, movies, documentaries and podcasts will start or deepen your understanding of race, racism, and antiracism in the United States.

As we celebrate the value and virtue of public service today and every day, we invite you to get involved in the broader conversation of creating a more inclusive democracy for all. Consider registering as a Racial and Social Justice Facilitator and lead engaging discussions to promote understanding of racial differences.