Ywca of kalamazoo is dedicated to eliminating racism, empowering women, and promoting peace, justice, freedom and dignity for all.

The ywca children's center - a nationally accredited, state licensed early childhood care education program for children aged six weeks through school age. The center uses highly regarded curriculum designed to meet the social, emotional, physical and cognitive needs of children of widely diverse backgrounds. The children's center focuses on serving the most vulnerable children who have experienced poverty, homelessness, and violence. 90% of our children qualify for tuition assistance through the ywca tuition assistance program. the ywca sexual assault, domestic violence, and human trafficking programs include providing the only services of this kind in kalamazoo county to victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, and human trafficking. The ywca provides the only program in kalamazoo county offering a comprehensive continuum of services designed exclusively for victims/survivors of domestic violence/sexual assault/human trafficking and their dependent children. Services include a secure on-site crisis shelter (52 bed capacity), human trafficking shelter, with emergency off-site overflow capacity; a 24-hour crisis line; individual counseling; support groups; advocacy through the legal, law enforcement, and judicial processes; information, referral and assistance regarding housing, employment and other support services. the ywca provides programming focused on promoting maternal and child health. The evidence based home visitation programs provide home visitation support and care coordination for pregnant women and infants living in poverty and those eligible for medicaid. The programs promote healthy pregnancies, positive birth outcomes, and healthy infant growth and development. The programs also improve the health and wellbeing of medicaid eligible pregnant women and infants through a standardized system-wide process. The ywca also oversees the infant mortality reduction efforts [cradle kalamazoo] in kalamazoo county and provides services for pregnant women that include home visitation, advocacy and counseling. the ywca provides programming focused on advancing race and gender equity for women and girls. It promotes public policy changes, awareness, health education around racial and gender equity while offering leadership programming specifically to girls of color. Our programs work to bring resources to all women and girls in kalamazoo county. We educate policymakers on a local, state and federal level about issues regarding women's health, safety, economic empowerment, racial justice and civil rights.