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Career Women Sponsor Teens in Leadership Program
The Weeklong Program Took Place at Bryn Mawr College in Bryn Mawr,
Pennsylvania
Sharmain Matlock-Turner, President of the Greater
Philadelphia Urban Affairs Coalition, sponsored a teen and led a
workshop in Teenshop's Summer Leadership Program for rising
seniors.
Bryn Mawr, PA (BlackNews.com) - Ten talented rising seniors attended
their first-time summer residential camp development experience in a
new initiative created by Teenshop, Inc., one of the nation's
longest running volunteer programs dedicated exclusively to the
empowerment of adolescent girls. (www.teenshop.org)
The mentors who sponsored the individual girls during the weeklong
stay at Bryn Mawr College range from the Senior Vice President of
the nation's largest cable communications provider to the chief
executive of a multi-million dollar non-profit coalition.
The teen camp participants...hand-picked by their chapter leaders
from the larger universe of more than 125 girls enrolled in Teenshop...were
unique in that each girl was an honor roll student who will also get
personalized mentoring from her sponsor as she faces college
preparation.
Teenshop, a weekend program founded in1985, boasts a successful
track record that has enrolled more than two thousand girls, ALL of
whom attend college or professional schools, despite the obstacles
many face of single-parent, low-income households.
With the help of dedicated volunteers who run Teenshop's five
chapters, the support of inspired women of achievement and other
community leaders, and a visionary leader and founder, Teenshop has
been able to achieve what older, better-financed and better-marketed
organizations serving girls often find challenging, that is:
attract, retain, nurture and "graduate" adolescent girls of color;
keep them from getting pregnant; and give them a better start on the
rest of their lives.
For more information contact:
Robin Robinowitz
Director of Communications
Greater Philadelphia Urban Affairs Coalition
215-851-1701
OR
Elleanor Jean Hendley
Founder and Chair
Teenshop, Inc.
215-851-1843
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