The ywca is dedicated to eliminating racism, empowering women, and promoting peace, justice, freedom and dignity for all people.

The ywca child care resource and referral program works to increase the availability of affordable, quality child care in lake county by recruiting and educating child care providers; providing fee referrals to 1,005 parents for quality child care; and administering the state child care assistance program for approximately 3,002 income eligible, working parents (87% single-mother, head of household) to receive financial assistance for child care while at work. Total expenses were $1,466,579. ywca breakfast clubs and after school programs focus on youth success and school readiness, providing over 300 children, ages 5 to 12, from low-income families (90% single-mother/ head of household, 86% eligible for state child care assistance) with affordable, high quality care before and after school, school holidays and full-day summer camps with a curriculm that includes homework assistance, reading skills and development. Total expenses were $636,769. ywca education and training programs offer bilingual financial literacy, jobs skills training, computer literacy, professional/career development, english with a purpose (esl), life skills, parenting and family management classes to over 1,000 lake county women, 4,106 participants in child care provider professional training, 2,507parents of children 0 to 5 years. Total expenses were $496,638.