Repairing Black Girls' Relationship with School

Celsa Snead, executive director of The Mentoring Center. and Aishatu Yusuf, Vice President of Programs at Impact Justice, join NBWJI's executive director Dr. Sydney McKinney to discuss and celebrate the release of NBWJI's evaluation report of the EMERGE program, an educational program for girls who have been directly impacted by the juvenile-legal and/or child welfare systems.
The EMERGE Program was created and designed to dismantle existing pathways to school disengagement and confinement and instead build pathways to college and careers for Black girls and other girls of color who have been involved in the juvenile-legal or foster care systems.
EMERGE is a new promising model and educational approach that should inform future strategies and practices for re-engaging Black girls and other girls of color who have been impacted by youth detention or the foster care system-and all youth at risk of disconnection-and putting them on a path toward safety, stability, wellbeing, and success in adulthood.
Read the EMERGE evaluation: www.nbwji.org/...
Learn more about EMERGE and The Mentoring Center: mentor.org/eme...
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