Health and Safety
YWCA Delaware advocates for policies that support survivors and work to prevent domestic violence, sexual assault, and other forms of gender-based violence as demand for services continues to rise. Work towards closing the gap in health disparities between People of Color and white people.
Our 2024 health and safety priorities include:
Victim Rights: policies that protect and educate women on their rights as victims; policies that reduce the power that a perpetrator of domestic/sexual violence has over the victim including stalking.
Equitable Healthcare: policies that make healthcare equitable by increasing access and affordability to traditionally underserved communities which includes any expansion of Medicaid services.
Support Establishing and Funding a Family Justice Center: which would provide one place for victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, and child abuse to receive the life-saving services currently available in their community from both non-profit and governmental agencies in each county.
Reproductive Justice (RJ): means the human right to control our sexuality, our gender, our work, and our reproduction. That right can only be achieved when all women and girls have the complete economic, social, and political power and resources to make healthy decisions about our bodies, our families, and our communities in all areas of our lives.
