2025 Walk a Mile in Their Shoes supporting YWCA Golden Gate Silicon Valley
2025 Walk a Mile in Their Shoes supporting YWCA Golden Gate Silicon Valley
About 2025 Walk a Mile in their Shoes
Thursday, June 12, 2025
5:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Santana Row
YWCA Golden Gate Silicon Valley’s annual Walk a Mile in Their Shoes is a light-hearted community fundraiser for serious issues. People of all ages, and genders, and from all walks of life join together to raise funds and awareness about sexual assault and domestic violence.
Funds raised through this event provide critical and life-saving support services for survivors. Your YWCA is dedicated to ending gender-based violence against all individuals.
Support YWCA’s important work and demonstrate your commitment to ending violence by joining business leaders, elected officials, professionals, educators, students, and more to walk a mile in their shoes.
WALK SCHEDULE
Activities and walk starts Santana Row Park (across from Left Bank Restaurant)
5:00 - 6:00 p.m.
6:00 - 6:30 p.m.
6:30 - 7:00 p.m.
7:00 - 7:30 p.m.
PARKING, INFORMATION, & MAP
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Date
Starts at: June 12, 2025 12:00 PM
Ends at: June 12, 2025 2:30 PM
Location
Santana Row
377 Santana Row
San Jose,CA 95128 USA
Contact
YWCA Philanthropy Team
philanthropy@yourywca.org
Why Walk?
Sexual and domestic violence impacts everyone, and has life altering and costly effects for survivors. YWCA Golden Gate Silicon Valley provides wraparound services for survivors, centered on their individual identities and experiences.
Support services are essential to a survivor’s healing journey. That’s why we provide clinical therapy and support groups, legal services, crisis response, housing programs and more.
As Your YWCA navigates cuts to federal funding and what that means for our ability to provide critical supportive services for survivors, your participation in Walk a Mile in Their Shoes has never been more urgent!
You have the ability to make a difference by rallying your friends, family and networks to fundraise for the safety and well-being of our community members. Just as importantly, education is the first step to action, so helping to raise awareness helps make progress toward the prevention of violence.
At Your YWCA, we believe everyone deserves to live a life free from violence. Do you?
How Your Support Makes a Difference
The Problem
- A sexual assault occurs every 68 seconds in the US. *RAINN
- Every 9 minutes, a child is sexually assaulted. *RAINN
- 1 out of every 6 American women has been the victim of an attempted or completed sexual assault in her lifetime. *RAINN
- 1 in 4 women experience severe physical violence by an intimate partner. *The Hotline
- Approximately 60% of Black girls experience sexual abuse by age 18. *Office for Victims of Crime
- 1 in 2 people who are transgender will experience sexual violence. *TEDx Talks LGBTQueering the Narrative of Sexual Violence
- In a study of male same sex relationships, only 26% of men called the police for assistance after experiencing near-lethal violence. *NCADV
YOUR YWCA IN ACTION *in the past fiscal year
- We responded to over 1,300 crisis intervention calls
- We answered over 9,000 calls on our 24/7 Bilingual Support Line
- Over 5,600 survivors received care through our Healing & Justice services (a 22% increase from last year!)
- Of the people we served with supportive services, over 2,000 were survivors of sexual assault (over 800 were youth)
- Of the people we served with supportive services, over 3,500 were survivors of domestic violence (81% of those who disclosed their identity identified as female)