To provide a bridge for young girls/ladies of our community to successfully transition from childhood into responsible womanhood.
VISION:
To ensure that young ladies in our society have the opportunity to realize their full potential, fulfill their hopes and aspire to their dreams.
Rites of Passageretreat program provides life skills and other critical needs for girls between 12 and16 years. This program is an intense one-week camp, which provides workshops to help participants in successfully maintaining themselves, academically, socially, emotionally, and spiritually in today’s tumultuous environment.
This program is designed for all girls within the age group, but particularly targets at-risk girls, and provides an avenue for change. Funds for scholarship is provided b y private sponsors and other fund-raising activities. Scholarship eligibility is determined by need-based criteria set by the program.
Rites of Passage program is conducted during the summer months between the first week in June through the middle of August. Our goal is for students to return to their lives with a new attitude towards school, peers, parents, and society.
The Rites of Passage offers a 'Beacon of Hope' to teens and pre-teens, enhancing their self-worth, self-esteem, self-confidence and desire to succeed. This program is designed to be a beacon of light to direct young girls into womanhood.
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A BEACON OF HOPE FOR YOUNG LADIES
The Rites of Passage Program is a one-week intense girls program that take place at summer camp. The purpose of this program is to empower at-risk young girls age 13 through 17 with tools to cope in today's changing environment, adapt superior social skills to enhance self and build decision making skills. Candidates will enter the program with insecurities inherent to young girls in this difficult stage of human development. During this one week of intense training, girls will be nurtured and supported,and emerge as a butterfly breaks from its cocoon into graceful maturity, to take on the world fearless and confident.
Course includes workshops such as:
Study skills
Career Development
Decision-Making Skills
Living Life in Balance (Mental, Physical, and Social)
Etiquette
Grooming
Support Network
Depression and Anxiety Workshop
This programs focuses on children in families that face challenges, including:
Family conflict and/or violence requiring frequent law enforcement intervention
Family dysfunction caused by stress
Family history of substance abuse
Poor parental supervision and/or inappropriate or severe discipline practices
Involvement with the juvenile justice system
Family history of mental or behavioral conditions including anxiety and depression
Low income and single parent household
Teen pregnancy
Children attending alternative education instutions
Teens with history of truancy at home and/or school
