August 29th from 12-1pm LinkedIn Live Conversation!

We have partnered with ShePlace to highlight August as National Black-Owned Business Month. Read our latest blog on the importance of Black leadership and SheMoney’s upcoming event with Ashley Bell!

Head to the link below to register for a LinkedIn Live conversation between Jacki Zehner and Ashley Bell, to hear more about the importance of Black-owned banks, on August 29th, 12:00pm-1:00pm.

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YWCA Utah recently signed on to two petitions calling on local and national leaders to address the current child care crisis and to take action to avert the funding cliff that comes next month when federal CARES Act funding will end.

Nationwide, up to 3.2 million children could lose child care, worsening inequities for families living in rural areas, families with low income, and women of color.

In Utah, two hundred thirty-nine child care providers, including YWCA Utah's Children's Services Director, signed a letter calling on Utah leaders to find solutions to Utah's child care crisis. Read the letter to Utah leaders here.

This fall, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments in United States v. Rahimi, a case challenging the constitutionality of the federal law that prohibits people subject to a domestic violence restraining order from possessing firearms.

We are proud to join 27 other nonpartisan, nonprofit organizations dedicated to ending gun and intimate partner violence in this effort.

Collectively, we argue that the lower court's analysis and ruling were erroneous. The amicus brief sets forth in detail that "domestic violence is pervasive, deadly, and inextricably linked with firearms in the United States" and argues that the Court should sustain the ability of legislatures to pass laws that disarm dangerous individuals.

"For thousands of women, children, and other potential victims of domestic violence, as well as potential other victims of mass shootings by domestic abusers, the stakes are literally life or death."