Greetings!
For more than 50 years, Silicon Valley FACES has worked to create systemic change in our community by equipping individuals to resist bias, bigotry, bullying and violence. Thank you for supporting this important work—we couldn’t have done it without generous supporters like you!
We connect with you today to announce, after dissolving as a non-profit organization in 2020, Silicon Valley FACES (SV FACES) has transferred the agency’s assets to YWCA Golden Gate Silicon Valley. Our vision is that the mission and legacy of SV FACES will live on through YWCA’s closely-aligned mission to eliminate racism, empower women, and promote peace, justice, freedom, and dignity for all. Through the inclusion of SV FACES programming, the YWCA will be able to expand current racial justice programming aimed at creating communities free from bias, bigotry and violence. SV Faces programming will continue to be available to young boys and girls in a school-based setting.
YWCA is committed to empowering people in our communities by preventing, and offering healing from, the trauma of racism, bigotry, and violence, and they have been meeting our community’s most pressing needs for over 140 years. YWCA seeks to root out injustice in all of its forms, transform institutions, and create a world that sees women, boys, girls, and people of color the way we do. Equal. Powerful. Unstoppable.
As a racial justice reckoning and movement swelled this past year, YWCA doubled down on our commitment to racial equity work—internally and externally: We’ve launched a three-year Race Equity Plan to provide new and additional training to all staff and volunteers. Your YWCA has worked to amplify the voices of the BIPOC community, and used our platforms to speak out against injustice. In the coming year, we look forward to further developing our prevention education and social and racial justice programming in school settings and in the larger community.
Your YWCA is committed to reimagining SV Faces programming and continuing the legacy of core programming, such as Camp Everytown, Common Ground, Restorative Justice Programs and Conflict Management and Resolution Training, as well as exploring how this content can be woven through our existing social and racial justice programming. Our hope and intention is to have newly reimagined program models taking root in our service areas by fall of 2022.
