Great people, help and the best of services

Very friendly and clean, organized!

I moved back here to my home town of Missoula several years ago with the desire to be able to focus on caring for my grandfather in his final months of life. However soon after relocating an employee of the YWCA, E’Lise Chard, began leveraging her place of employment and her disturbingly close relationship with “MPD liaison to the YWCA” Officer Ethan Smith began an escalating pattern of stalking and harassing me and my parents. Upon my family filing complaints against Officer Ethan Smith demanding he leave me and my family alone, that the relationship between Smith and Chard be severed, and my filing of a formal complaint with the YWCA concerning E’Lise Chard and Officer Smith’s actions both the YWCA and the Missoula PD (at an organizational-level, but clearly led by Chard and Officer Smith), in a dramatic escalation, responded with a series of shocking and unbelievable retaliatory acts.They immediately began a campaign of slandering with countless outlandish knowingly dishonest false claims resulting in a repeated cycle of filing, dismissing, and re-filing felony stalking a series charges to justify Missoula PD repeatedly engaging in displays of potential use of deadly force against me, raiding my home while I was working, repeatedly arresting me under false pretenses, and attempting to continually raise bail and/or revoke my bail to ensure I would remain in jail for well over a year before any possible trial. For 18 months my life and my family’s life was torn apart and bankrupted, I lost a high dollar contract due to repeatedly being unexpectedly jailed for days at a time, and lost numerous job offers before the end of this nightmare of a weaponized legal assault led by the YWCA and Missoula PD were fully dismissed.Even to this day E’Lise Chard continues to harass me with legal impunity by repeatedly convinced friends of hers to post defamatory statements on business pages of mine.What is perhaps even moreshocking and certainly of significant note is that upon making my complaint with the YWCA public I have been approached by other families which have had nearly identical experiences with E’Lise Chard and the YWCA (often also in conjunction with Ethan Smith and Missoula PD), clearly establishing a horrifying and ugly pattern of abuse of power and weaponization of their organization itself. In some cases the YWCA going so far as to send defamatory letters to judges in a clear attempt to place their thumb on the scales of justice.This is *NOT* in accordance to what the YWCA’s mission statement is. While they may in fact help some people in need, it has become abundantly clear they have lost all sight of their core purpose of helping families and turned into an organization that destroys families. I believe this is the obvious result of being allowed far too much power with literally zero over-sight, which is what has distorted the results of their work into becoming predominantly an organization for angry and quite frankly deranged people to leverage as a weapon against those who become unfortunate victims of their unchecked power that comes from a facade of being a charitable organization that helps those in need.However I am making a call to anyone who has experienced this similar and well established pattern of harassment, intimidation, and abuse of power to come forward so that those responsible can be held accountable and the appropriate steps taken to see that these organizations return to being a shield for those in need of protection, rather than a weapon for those seeking to do irreparable harm to others.

Every single person in this building are nice and helpful while looking out for the wellbeing of others in our community❤

Jen and Hannah are the BEST EVER!! genuinely kind and caring. Have helped my family immensely! Love them.

Took them my good used clothes to help battered women and men.They were really happy to get them.Am glad for the help they have to offer

I am a patient at the YWCA because I was offered free therapy sessions to cope with a traumatic experience that had recently happened to me.I find the location to be ironic, since its supposed to be a safe place for women and children, but its located right behind the Povarello Center, a place where people who have been convicted of sexual assault stay at. In fact, after my therapy session today, I saw an ambulance and three or four police cruisers park right in front of the Pov. There are women that have PTSD such as myself and see such a large quantity of emergency services, and they can have an anxiety attack. They shouldnt see something like that at their safe space. Horrible location. Horrible.The staff (aside from my therapist) are rude, loud, and dont seem to care about the environment their patients walk into. The lobby looks dingy with ugly, fluorescent lights and random items sitting around to later be put in storage. Why not take care of it ASAP and have more room for the constant traffic that goes through the lobby? Also, turn on some lamps instead of making me feel like Im at the police station instead. Secretary is hard of hearing and doesnt politely ask if you could repeat yourself, she just expects it.I honestly hate going here because I get nasty looks from the staff and feel like I dont belong at the YWCA while I wait for my therapist. The vibe of this place is very discomforting and the location is garbage.

Good place and good people helpful when you need it.

Redirecting community resources by implementing creative solutions for desperate causes and the people involved( donars and recipients) and at the same time building strong community connections and reconnect ion.

Life savers! Everyone there has gone above and beyond to help my little family

Great staff, great programs

Provides amazing services for women with families

If your having bad domistic issues, they are great!

They helped me when I needed it the most

Nice people clean establishment

Helped a younger friend get help

Helpful place

Some of the women who work here are not very nice, specially the ones still in college they have no idea what its like to be abused and kinda act like its a joke.

Love them

Outstanding