{"id":108771,"date":"2019-03-15T10:00:39","date_gmt":"2019-03-15T14:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rosseducation.edu\/?p=108771"},"modified":"2019-03-15T10:00:39","modified_gmt":"2019-03-15T14:00:39","slug":"fort-wayne-ross-students-volunteer-at-ywca-of-northeast-indiana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rosseducation.edu\/blog\/fort-wayne-ross-students-volunteer-at-ywca-of-northeast-indiana\/","title":{"rendered":"Fort Wayne Ross Students Volunteer at YWCA of Northeast Indiana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/rosseducation.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/ross-medical-education-center-fort-wayne-ywca-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Fort Wayne Ross Students Volunteer at YWCA of Northeast Indiana\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-108772\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rosseducation.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/ross-medical-education-center-fort-wayne-ywca-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/rosseducation.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/ross-medical-education-center-fort-wayne-ywca-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rosseducation.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/ross-medical-education-center-fort-wayne-ywca.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>It\u2019s always wonderful to see Ross students stepping up to volunteer in their communities, and it gives the Ross community as a whole something to be proud of: the compassion, integrity, and kindness shared by its members. Recently, students, staff, and faculty from the <a href=\"https:\/\/rosseducation.edu\/campus\/in\/fort-wayne.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fort Wayne<\/a> campus volunteered at <a href=\"https:\/\/ywcanein.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">YWCA of Northeast Indiana<\/a> to help organize and sort donations.<\/p>\n<p>YWCA of Northeast Indiana functions as a safe place for women in the community, offering many services including addiction recovery services, shelter for those affected by domestic violence, and community engagement activities. Ross students and staff used their monthly community service project to help out at YWCA by sorting and organizing donations.<\/p>\n<p>The Chic Boutique is an incentive-based program for which clients can earn tickets to exchange for items in the boutique, like makeup, earbuds, nail polish, accessories, and other small items. The Dress for Success store takes clothing donations that women can use to go on job interviews or wear to work after leaving abusive home situations. YWCA also has a food pantry.<\/p>\n<p>During their volunteering time, Ross students, staff, and faculty helped organize and sort donations received to stock each of these programs. YWCA staff had not yet been able to sort these items themselves due to lack of staff availability.<\/p>\n<p>Anna Thompson, who serves as the the Resource Development Assistant at YWCA Northeast Indiana, said that the YWCA staff greatly appreciated what the Ross Fort Wayne campus volunteers did and how it will impact YWCA clients.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe help with organizing and revamping allows the spaces to be more welcoming for clients as they are healing through their trauma. It helps gives them back their self-esteem and [helps build them] back up,\u201d said Thompson.<\/p>\n<p>Medical Assistant student Isabelita Tatman said, \u201cI enjoy giving back to the community and what better way than to partner with the YWCA Northeast Indiana that helps many women of our community.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If you are interested in volunteering or learning more about YWCA Northeast Indiana, please visit <a href=\"https:\/\/ywcanein.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">ywcanein.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s always wonderful to see Ross students stepping up to volunteer in their communities, and it gives the Ross community&hellip;<br \/><a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/rosseducation.edu\/blog\/fort-wayne-ross-students-volunteer-at-ywca-of-northeast-indiana\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":108772,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rosseducation.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108771"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rosseducation.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rosseducation.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rosseducation.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rosseducation.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rosseducation.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108771\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rosseducation.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rosseducation.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rosseducation.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rosseducation.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}