
8 - From Barriers to Breakthroughs: Women Leading Their Own Change with Bettina McWilliams and LaDericka Baker
Happy 109th Anniversary, YWCA Quad Cities! For more than a century, the YW has been a place where women create solutions for women — a community built by women, for women, at a time when safety, opportunity, and support were not guaranteed.
Yet today, many of the same challenges persist. Economic insecurity. Access to child care. Safety. Equity. These issues are still shaping the lives of women in our community, especially those living in poverty.
In this episode, we put a human voice to the statistics: 1 in 3 female-headed households in the Quad Cities are living in poverty. Behind every…
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