1958:
Jim Morgan took Ann Tinsley
on their 1st date to a dance at the YWCA
Click to
hear Jim talk about his date!
2010: Did you know that
High Point has 25 known gangs?
The YWCA provides Friday Night Jamborees and Summer Camp for
youth
to have a safe and positive place to be.
Donate in Honor of
Jim & Ann Morgan
1946: Ann attended
YWCA summer camp with her friends
Click to
hear Ann talk about her childhood days
2010: Did you know that in 2006 16.4% of
the females in High Point were below the poverty level?
The
Women’s Resource Center provides programs to enrich the
lives
of women and their families: Resource Referral Network,
Computer Lab,
Career Closet, Women in Transition, Legal Ease, Dollars &
Sense and
Entrepreneurial Lunch and Learns.
Donate in Honor of Ann & Vann York
1963:
4th Grader Susan in Mrs. Ingram’s Class,
Oak Hill Elementary learned to swim at the YWCA
Click to hear Susan
Childress explain the difference between sink & swim :)
Click here to donate in honor of Susan Childress
2010: Do you know
that 34% of the adults over the age of 20 and
17% of the youth
between 12 and 19 are obese?
The YWCA Aquatics & Wellness programs provides our youth and
adults the skills to develop life long fitness for families
& individuals. 50% of seniors 65 years and over live in pain
and have an arthritis diagnoses. The YWCA offers classes
that are beneficial to those who need to increase their
range of motion and reduce chronic pain from arthritis,
Parkinson’s, fibromyalgia or rehabilitation from surgery.
1970: KJ’s Mother
Eleanor Price
learned to sew dresses at the YWCA
Click to hear KJ share
her Mother's story
Click here to donate in
honor of KJ & her Mother
2010: Did you know that in 2006 there were 971 teen pregnancies in
Guilford County and in 2004 it cost NC taxpayers $312 million
dollars to care for teen Mother’s?
The YWCA in partnership with the NC Department of Health & Human
Services offers an Adolescent Parenting Program to support teen
Mother’s. In 2008, the YWCA had 2 teen mothers graduate from
High School and 100% of the participants delayed a 2nd pregnancy
with no reported abuse or neglect.
Where does my donation go and
what will it support?
$500
donation provides:
4 months of
the Women in Transition
$225 donation provides: 6 months of adult water therapy
$160 donation provides: After school care for a child for a month
$100 donation provides: Summer Camp for youth to have a safe and positive place to be
$40 donation Provides swimming lessons for a child