{"id":11028,"date":"2024-02-01T19:41:18","date_gmt":"2024-02-01T19:41:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/?p=11028"},"modified":"2024-02-01T19:41:18","modified_gmt":"2024-02-01T19:41:18","slug":"ywca-and-first-unitarian-sponsor-dialogue-to-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/01\/ywca-and-first-unitarian-sponsor-dialogue-to-change\/","title":{"rendered":"YWCA and First Unitarian Sponsor Dialogue to Change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Special to The Truth<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Dialogue to Change initiative is sponsored by the First Unitarian Church of Toledo in partnership with the YWCA.<\/p>\n<p>The YWCA describes the Dialogue to Change program as follows:\u00a0 In order to have equitable communities, we need to face racism head-on.\u00a0Participants will experience engaging and interactive in-person training designed for diverse groups of 10-20 participants. Individuals will explore the profound impact of bias and systemic racism through facilitated\u00a0exercises and discussions.\u00a0 All necessary materials will be supplied.<\/p>\n<p>The Unitarian Church is sponsoring these sessions to fulfill its mission of \u201cwidening the Unitarian Church\u2019s circle\u201d of involvement in the entire Toledo community.\u00a0 It is hoped that 10 participants will be from the Unitarian Church and 10 from other churches, entities or individuals in the community and that these dialogues might lead to building stronger relationships throughout the community.<\/p>\n<p>Alexii Collins, Racial Justice Coordinator at the YWCA NW Ohio, will be leading the sessions and providing the updated program and materials.<\/p>\n<p>The sessions are planned for Tuesday, March 5, and Thursday, March 7, from 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. each day at the First Unitarian Church of Toledo at 3205 Glendale Ave. in Toledo.\u00a0 Lunch will be provided. \u00a0\u00a0Funding for these sessions is provided by the education fund of the First Unitarian Church.<\/p>\n<p>To register for these sessions follow this link: <a href=\"https:\/\/forms.gle\/aFX5bu34gfK4maw59\">https:\/\/forms.gle\/aFX5bu34gfK4maw59<\/a> or contact\u00a0 Alexii Collins,\u00a0acollins@ywcanwo.org, (419) 241-3235.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Special to The Truth The Dialogue to Change initiative is sponsored by the First Unitarian Church of Toledo in partnership with the YWCA. The YWCA describes the Dialogue to Change program as follows:\u00a0 In order to have equitable communities, we need to face racism head-on.\u00a0Participants will experience engaging and interactive in-person training designed for diverse [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"wf_post_folders":[214],"class_list":["post-11028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11028"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11029,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11028\/revisions\/11029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11028"},{"taxonomy":"wf_post_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wf_post_folders?post=11028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}