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- EIN 51-0186073
- (515) 244-4901
- 818 5th Ave Des Moines IA 50309-1304 USA
- http://ywrc.org
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Causes: Children & Youth, Children & Youth Services, Women, Women's Centers, Youth Development Programs
Mission: To embrace and inspire young women to become strong, self-confident and successful. The ywrc offers small groups and individual support focused on self esteem, healthy relationships, and reproductive health.
Programs: Prevention services: provides gender specific programming to young women ages 10-21 through a variety of groups and individual counseling. Goals include promoting positive self-esteem and healthy relationships, developing leadership skills, and fostering effective and healthy problem solving skills.
perinatal services: provides gender specific programming to pregnant and parenting young women ages 13-21 through a variety of groups and individual case management services. Goals include pursuit of economic self-sufficiency, understanding the advantages of waiting until adulthood to have additional children, understanding the developmental needs of their children, gaining positive parenting skills, and eliminating low birth weight and premature births.