Youth Anti-Racism Discussions (YARD) is a StrongHER TogetHER (stronghertogether.org) program that addresses systemic racism and racial inequities through the lens of art, culture, history, current events, and personal experiences. In 2023, ST girls participated in a series of four workshops that focused on the criminal justice system and created two capstones including assembling care kits for homeless youth to discourage shoplifting and the subsequent arrest-bail-release-repeat cycle and created an online game to educate youth about the realities of Durham’s criminal justice system.
In 2024-2025, we are seeking a 4-5 Member YARD Program Team to help coordinate a social democracy workshop series in partnership with community programs and organize some engaging and informative sessions to help the girls learn about topics such as gerrymandering, voting rights / registration, the role of legistators and redistricting. Time commitment: 8-12 hours per month.
PO BOX 52142, DURHAM, NC 27717, US
StrongHER TogetHER helps girls rise above stereotypes that alienate them from one another and instead grow up to be women who understand the power of their collective strength in the fight for equity.
StrongHER TogetHER (ST) works to shift mindsets, elevate outcomes and advance social and individual awareness. Because we believe reliable and long-standing impact is achieved organically, capitalizing on time is a core strategy for our program. Girls are nominated to join ST as rising fifth graders and participate in ST programming for eight years, through high school graduation. This length of time allows the girls to fully embrace the notion of collective power, having experienced any number of consistent growth opportunities with the same group of girls. ST is also strategic and intentional in assembling these groups, all of which are comprised of students from various schools, backgrounds, cultures and socioeconomics. These differences, paired with the consistency and duration of our programming, encourages the girls to learn about one another and over time, recognize they are more similar than different and further, their differences are cause for celebration.
Multiple locations Durham, NC 27717
September 19, 2024
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