The project will work with young women in our community to assist, encourage, enhance, explore, educate and provided opportunities for positive growth. We shall assist our young women in achieving a life full of rewards, achievements, hapiness and their best personal potential. In conjunction with our community partners we will recruit and engage adolescent girls from the community for a program of self-awareness and self-discover activities.

Activities will focus on values, physical and emotional awareness, health (substance abuse and violence), relatioship, decision making and life goals. Through the process women from the community will serve as a positive role models and participate as equals with the girls to establish a link between their current situation/perception and their potential. Ongoing mentoring relationship between the adult and adolescent participant will be established. After completion of the first cohort of participants the model will be refined for the purposed of replication in other communities/neighborhoods.

Program Goals

Increase the number of youth who are taking responsibility for their own lives by recognizing and activating their personal power to effect change.
To increase the number of youth who are demonstrating leadership by transforming their personal power experience into a positive prevention effort for others.
To reduce youth risk factors and increase resiliency factors associated with substance abuse and violence.

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