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Racial healing is an experience and a tool that can facilitate trust and build authentic relationships that bridge divides created by real and perceived differences.

This session includes both group interactions and intimate conversations between two participants. Trained Racial Healing Circle practitioners will be present to help ensure a confidential, safe space for participants to have truthful conversations with one another. 

We ask that you register ONLY if you can attend the complete session. We typically try to create circles with as much racial, gender, age, and ethnic diversity as possible, but also can offer circles composed completely of participants who identify as White or all participants who identify as People of Color. If you have a preference, please indicate that on the registration form.

This is a free event and anyone 17 years and older is welcome. Registration is required so we can send you the link to join discussion. 

Basic Money Management will help strengthen your money management skills by developing tools to help with budgeting, credit and debt issues.

Participants must commit to complete the entire course consisting of two (one hour) modules over two evenings on Monday, June 8 & 15, 2020.

This online class is open to the public, but please register to attend.

Please join us on Zoom for a special Race Against Hate…in place edition of Let’s Talk @ Lunch, an informal facilitated discussion of current events through a racial equity lens. We’ll discuss Ahmaud Arbery, the connection to Ricky Byrdsong, and what it feels like to be a Black man out for a run. 

This is a free event and anyone 17 years and older is welcome. Registration is required so we can send you the link to join discussion. 

Basic Money Management will help strengthen your money management skills by developing tools to help with budgeting, credit and debt issues.

Participants must commit to complete the entire course consisting of two (one hour) modules over two evenings on Monday, June 8 & 15, 2020.

This online class is open to the public, but please register to attend.

Join Sherialyn Byrdsong, YWCA Evanston/North Shore President/CEO, Karen Singer; and the Director of YWCA’s Equity Institute, Tiffany McDowell for a Zoom discussion of critical issues challenging our communities. Together they will examine racial health disparities unmasked by the COVID-19 pandemic, the Ahmaud Arbery case and how it echoes Ricky Byrdsong’s murder and imagine action that we might all take to move our country toward greater equity and inclusion. 

This is a free event and anyone 17 years and older is welcome. Registration is required so we can send you the link to join discussion. 

Illinois HB 42464 requires all salon professionals to receive 1-hour of training on sexual assault and domestic violence. The CE requirement of this new law was effective January 1, 2019 and is in effect for September 2019 licensure renewals for cosmetologists and estheticians.

This is an interactive online training.  Come prepared to participate fully, just as you would an in-person interactive training.  Be prepared to connect from a quiet place on a computer with headphones.  A computer with a webcam is recommended for maximum connection.  High speed internet will give you the best experience.  Details for how to connect to the session will be sent to you prior to the day of the training. The training will introduce resources you can use after the training.

Rebuilding After a Financial Crisis

A job loss, a medical crisis, or other hardship can send a normal financial situation into a tailspin. In this workshop, participants will learn how to get their finances back on track, including budgeting, repaying debt, rebuilding credit, establishing emergency savings, and replenishing retirement savings.

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This online workshop is FREE but please register below:

Our annual Equity Summit gathers our collective resources in one (virtual in 2020!) place for a summit designed to move us – as individuals and as systems – to transformation.  

And this year, in light of Covid, it is even more important to highlight racial inequities and to understand the tools and models around what people can do to level the playing field. 

The Summit will take place over the course of two mornings, June 25 and 26, and will include featured speakers New York Times columnist Jamelle Bouie, WBEZ South Side Reporter Natalie Moore, and Professor of African and African American Studies at Harvard University, Dr. Evelynn Hammonds. 

The June 25-26 Summit includes breakout sessions on a number of skill-building topics and is appropriate for ages 17 and older. Not able to make those dates? A recording of the Summit will be available to all registrants for six months.

Our annual Equity Summit gathers our collective resources in one (virtual in 2020!) place for a summit designed to move us – as individuals and as systems – to transformation.  

And this year, in light of Covid, it is even more important to highlight racial inequities and to understand the tools and models around what people can do to level the playing field. 

The Summit will take place over the course of two mornings, June 25 and 26, and will include featured speakers New York Times columnist Jamelle Bouie, WBEZ South Side Reporter Natalie Moore, and Professor of African and African American Studies at Harvard University, Dr. Evelynn Hammonds. 

The June 25-26 Summit includes breakout sessions on a number of skill-building topics and is appropriate for ages 17 and older. Not able to make those dates? A recording of the Summit will be available to all registrants for six months.