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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong><span style="color: #eb861c;">Welcome to the YWCA Santa Monica / Westside</span></strong></span> <hr /> <p>Established in 1926, the YWCA Santa Monica / Westside is a non-profit organization serving more than 2,500 women and children from ten communities in West Los Angeles.</p> <hr /> <p><strong><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 120%;" class="blueheading">Our Mission: Strengthened by diversity, the YWCA empowers women and girls by creating opportunities for growth and leadership.</span></strong></p> <hr /> <p>The YWCA invests in our community's women and girls from infancy to adulthood. Through child development, teen leadership, girls athletics, transitional housing and education, financial literacy, parenting education, health and fitness classes, and cancer support, the YWCA is a turning point for many who seek out our services at different points in their lives to provide direction and support for a next step. Our stories support our Mission:</p> <p> </p> <p><img style="float: right;" class="joomslide-75" src=http://b.smywca.com/"images/stories/encore/rena-wander-001.jpg" height="100" width="75" /><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong><span style="color: #eb861c;">Rena Wander - I'm Bald and So Are You ... <br />A Life Well Worth Living</span></strong></span> <br /> <br />Today my doctor told me I had breast cancer. I never realized how painful and frightening so few words could be. My world is crumbling around me. What am I going to do? Will I recover? Is my life over? Click <a href="index.php?Itemid=409">here</a> to read the rest of Rena's story.</p> <hr /> And so do our programs: <div class="smallMargin"> <ul> <li><a href="2-womens-girls-programs/encore.html"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Encore</strong></span></a> Rehabilitative pool therapy, peer support, and referral for cancer survivors. </li> </ul> <ul> <li><a href="2-womens-girls-programs/transitional-housing.html"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Transitional Housing and Education</strong></span></a> Housing and education for young women exiting the foster care system. </li> </ul> <ul> <li><a href="index.php?Itemid=272"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><strong>Girls Athletics</strong></span></a> Basketball and volleyball leagues and clinics for girls ages 7 to 14.</li> </ul> <ul> <li><a href="2-womens-girls-programs/girls-in-action-leadership.html"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Girls In Action</strong></span></a> Leadership program for middle school girls, including computer and financial literacy classes.</li> </ul> <ul> <li><a href="2-womens-girls-programs/financial-literacy.html"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Libbie Agran Financial Literacy Center</strong></span></a> Financial literacy classes for women and girls.</li> </ul> <ul> </ul> <ul> <li><a href="2-womens-girls-programs/place-for-parents.html"><strong><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Place for Parents</span></strong></a> Parent support, infant/toddler and me, and transitional day care classes.</li> </ul> <ul> <li><a href="3-classes/z-all-classes.html"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Community Classes</strong></span></a> Classes for the entire family, including yoga, ballet, karate, life drawing, gymnastics, and more. </li> </ul> </div>

<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong><span style="color: #eb861c;">Welcome to the YWCA Santa Monica / Westside</span></strong></span> <hr /> <p>Established in 1926, the YWCA Santa Monica / Westside is a non-profit organization serving more than 2,500 women and children from ten communities in West Los Angeles.</p> <hr /> <p><strong><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 120%;" class="blueheading">Our Mission: Strengthened by diversity, the YWCA empowers women and girls by creating opportunities for growth and leadership.</span></strong></p> <hr /> <p>The YWCA invests in our community's women and girls from infancy to adulthood. Through child development, teen leadership, girls athletics, transitional housing and education, financial literacy, parenting education, health and fitness classes, and cancer support, the YWCA is a turning point for many who seek out our services at different points in their lives to provide direction and support for a next step. Our stories support our Mission:</p> <p> </p> <p><img style="float: right;" class="joomslide-75" src=http://b.smywca.com/"images/stories/encore/rena-wander-001.jpg" height="100" width="75" /><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong><span style="color: #eb861c;">Rena Wander - I'm Bald and So Are You ... <br />A Life Well Worth Living</span></strong></span> <br /> <br />Today my doctor told me I had breast cancer. I never realized how painful and frightening so few words could be. My world is crumbling around me. What am I going to do? Will I recover? Is my life over? Click <a href="index.php?Itemid=409">here</a> to read the rest of Rena's story.</p> <hr /> And so do our programs: <div class="smallMargin"> <ul> <li><a href="2-womens-girls-programs/encore.html"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Encore</strong></span></a> Rehabilitative pool therapy, peer support, and referral for cancer survivors. </li> </ul> <ul> <li><a href="2-womens-girls-programs/transitional-housing.html"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Transitional Housing and Education</strong></span></a> Housing and education for young women exiting the foster care system. </li> </ul> <ul> <li><a href="index.php?Itemid=272"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><strong>Girls Athletics</strong></span></a> Basketball and volleyball leagues and clinics for girls ages 7 to 14.</li> </ul> <ul> <li><a href="2-womens-girls-programs/girls-in-action-leadership.html"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Girls In Action</strong></span></a> Leadership program for middle school girls, including computer and financial literacy classes.</li> </ul> <ul> <li><a href="2-womens-girls-programs/financial-literacy.html"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Libbie Agran Financial Literacy Center</strong></span></a> Financial literacy classes for women and girls.</li> </ul> <ul> </ul> <ul> <li><a href="2-womens-girls-programs/place-for-parents.html"><strong><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Place for Parents</span></strong></a> Parent support, infant/toddler and me, and transitional day care classes.</li> </ul> <ul> <li><a href="3-classes/z-all-classes.html"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Community Classes</strong></span></a> Classes for the entire family, including yoga, ballet, karate, life drawing, gymnastics, and more. </li> </ul> </div>