{"id":10116,"date":"2021-10-20T15:26:11","date_gmt":"2021-10-20T20:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/?p=10116"},"modified":"2021-10-21T12:48:21","modified_gmt":"2021-10-21T17:48:21","slug":"missouri-western-ywca-host-walk-against-violence-oct-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/2021\/10\/20\/missouri-western-ywca-host-walk-against-violence-oct-22\/","title":{"rendered":"Missouri Western, YWCA host Walk Against Violence Oct. 22"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><img class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-10117\" src=\"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2021\/10\/YWCA.png\" alt=\"eliminating racism empowering women ywca\" width=\"180\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2021\/10\/YWCA-66x66.png 66w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2021\/10\/YWCA-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2021\/10\/YWCA.png 180w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 180px) 100vw, 180px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Oct. 21, 2021&#8211;Missouri Western State University and YWCA St. Joseph will host a Domestic Violence memorial walk at 6 p.m. Friday, Oct. 22 to wrap up the YWCA\u2019s Week Without Violence. The walk will start in Lot H near the Baker Fitness Center, and circle the campus on Downs Drive, a distance of approximately one mile.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The walking path will be lined with signs honoring women, men and children who lost their lives to Domestic Violence.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">If you or anyone you know has experienced domestic or dating violence please know that there are options available both on campus and in the community for support and to report. On campus you can report to the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/student-services\/titleix\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Title IX Office<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> (816-271) or the University Police (816-271-4438), or you can speak with someone confidentially in the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/student-services\/counseling\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Counseling Center<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> (816-271-4327), or through the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/hr\/benefits\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Employee Assistance Program<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. In St. Joseph, you can contact the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/ywcasj.org\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">YWCA of St. Joseph<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> (816) 232-4481 or (816) 232-1225 for 24-hour hotline for Survivor Support services including emergency housing, help with orders of protection and making police reports, counseling, court advocacy, and other services.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><i>Missouri Western State University is a student-centered learning community preparing individuals for lives of excellence through applied learning. Missouri Western is located in St. Joseph, Mo., and is committed to the educational, economic, cultural and social development of the region it serves. Visit <\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\"><i>missouriwestern.edu<\/i><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oct. 21, 2021&#8211;Missouri Western State University and YWCA St. Joseph will host a Domestic Violence memorial walk at 6 p.m. Friday, Oct. 22 to wrap up the YWCA\u2019s Week Without Violence. The walk will start in Lot H near the Baker Fitness Center, and circle the campus on Downs Drive, a distance of approximately one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[48],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10116"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10116"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10121,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10116\/revisions\/10121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}