Racial Justice
YWCA Delaware advocates for policies that advance equity, safety, and racial justice for people of color with a focus on the criminal justice system, accessible voting and elections, environmental justice, education, and other systems with structural racial disparities.
Our 2024 Racial and Social Justice priorities include:
Education: equitable funding source that places resources in schools where they are most needed and supports thetraining of a more diverse workforce in the field.
Law Enforcement Reform: increasing police transparency and accountability, such as implementing a data collection systemfor all interactions, providing additional support such as social workers along with law enforcement, and additional trainingincluding SROs (School Resource Officers). Additionally, banning no-knock and reverse warrants.
Prison and Probation Reform: policies that reduce incarceration and high recidivism rates, such as eliminating fines andfees for those unable to pay and compassionate early release. Reforming probation by ending incarceration for technicalviolations, enabling the customization of probation conditions to individual needs, requiring collecting and publishing dataon probation and people on probation, investing in community-based reentry programs, and eliminating probation for minorconvictions.
Equal Access to Voting: policies that make voting easy and accessible for all citizens including previously incarceratedindividuals upon the moment of release regardless of crime, mail-in voting, and no-excuse absentee voting.
Environmental Justice: that promotes fair treatment and meaningful involvement of all people regardless of race, color,national origin, or income, concerning the development, implementation, and enforcement of environmental laws, regulations and policies.
