--- title: Racial Justice description: Volunteers are needed to work on the Racial Justice Committee. If you are interested in getting involved, please contact the YWCA Bradford today. --- [Skip to content](https://ywcabradford.org/racial-justice#main-content) [If you are in danger, click here to call our 24-hour hotline or dial 888-822-6325.](tel:8888226235) [Donate](https://ywcabradford.org/donate?hsLang=en) This is a search field with an auto-suggest feature attached. - There are no suggestions because the search field is empty. [![blob-0004](https://ywcabradford.org/hs-fs/hubfs/blob-0004.png?width=342&height=198&name=blob-0004.png "blob-0004")](https://23609299.hs-sites.com/home?hsLang=en) - [Home](https://ywcabradford.org) - [Blog](https://ywcabradford.org/ywca-bradford-blog) - What We Do - [Housing and Employment](https://ywcabradford.org/housing-and-employment-services) - [Mental Health, Developmental Disabilities Program](https://ywcabradford.org/mental-health-program) - [Victims' Resource Center](https://ywcabradford.org/victims-resource-center) - [Racial Justice](https://ywcabradford.org/racial-justice) - About Us - [Board and Members](https://ywcabradford.org/board-of-directors) - [Our Mission](https://ywcabradford.org/mission) - [Contact Us](https://ywcabradford.org/contact-us) - [History of the YWCA](https://ywcabradford.org/history-of-the-ywca) - [Staff](https://ywcabradford.org/staff) - Employment - [Job Postings](https://ywcabradford.org/job-postings) - Ways to Help - [Donate](https://ywcabradford.org/donate) - [Ways to Give](https://ywcabradford.org/ways-to-give) - [Get Involved](https://ywcabradford.org/volunteer) - [Support Our Mission](https://ywcabradford.org/support-our-mission) - Search Search Search # Racial Justice --- It’s a fact: racism still exists. And for as long as it exists, we will be helping our community understand, challenge, and eliminate it. We are working to foster opportunities to engage in open dialogue about race, racism, and race relations—giving groups and individuals the training and support they need to address these topics in their lives and communities. ## Promoting equal protection and equal opportunity for people of color YWCA’s commitment to racial justice and civil rights runs deep. Since the 1800s, Black and Native women have been providing leadership in YWCA’s movement and, because of the leadership of women of color, in 1946 YWCA began working for integration throughout the organization, adopting an “interracial charter” that established that “wherever there is injustice on the basis of race, whether in the community, the nation, or the world, our protest must be clear and our labor for its removal, vigorous, and steady.” That work culminated in the creation of YWCA’s One Imperative in 1970: To thrust our collective power towards the elimination of racism, wherever it exists, by any means necessary. Today, we remain committed to ensuring that everyone is afforded equal protection under the law, and our intersectional mission to eliminate racism and empower women demands that we show up to advocate against the oppression that many groups and individuals endure, including through recognizing the interconnected experiences of discrimination and disadvantage that women face from their overlapping identities. Too often, stereotypes, biases, and racial power dynamics are embedded in our laws and public policies. They are also reflected in the use of racial profiling, heightened surveillance tactics, targeted enforcement strategies, and other practices that increase policing of certain racial and ethnic communities (but not others) that lead to criminalization and often the death of people of color. At YWCA, we demand a world of equity and human decency.  We envision a world of opportunity. We commit ourselves to the work of racial justice. We will get up and continue to do the work until injustice is rooted out, until institutions are transformed, until the world sees women, girls, and people of color the way we do: Equal. Powerful. Unstoppable. ![Gold Transparency rating for 2023 from Candid](https://widgets.guidestar.org/TransparencySeal/7289538)![Four-Star Rating Badge - Full Color](https://ywcabradford.org/hs-fs/hubfs/Four-Star%20Rating%20Badge%20-%20Full%20Color.png?width=135&height=135&name=Four-Star%20Rating%20Badge%20-%20Full%20Color.png) [Follow us on Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/146922587416) [Follow us on Twitter](https://www.instagram.com/ywcabradfordmck/) ##### [Donate](https://23609299.hs-sites.com/donate?hsLang=en) **YWCA Bradford** 21 Elm Street, Bradford, Pennsylvania 16701, United States [814-368-4235](tel:8143684235) Copyright © 2023 YWCA Bradford - All Rights Reserved.