Susan and Waylon Davenport, parents of two and full-time working professionals, are just like so many dedicated families in this community. The YWCA’s Affordable Child Care Program provides a sliding-scale payment plan based on income. During financial hardships, the...

Dear Caring Friends: In today’s economically challenging and uncertain times, the most vulnerable among us – families who are homeless and hungry, battered women and children, uninsured families with medical needs, families who have lost their home to a fire – need...

At a very young age, I was sexually abused by my biological father. As a result of the abuse, I learned to hold my feelings in and keep them to myself. After my mother found out what was going on, she divorced my father. I began having a lot of stomach problems due to...

In the early 1950s, a young Jim Geiger, who lived in public housing, started attending the Club. At that time it was just the Boy’s Club…girls didn’t join until later. Jim faced a reading comprehension and stuttering problem that proved difficult, but the leaders and...