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S.O.U.L. Sisters Leadership Collective

N/A, N/A, N/A • 10 - 19 Employees
City Government/Municipal Government

S.O.U.L (Sisters Organizing for Understanding & Leadership) Sisters Leadership Collective (SSLC) is a groundbreaking leadership development nonprofit that mobilizes our most vulnerable young women* in NYC and Miami to interrupt cycles of poverty and violence. SSLC empowers those who have lived and breathed social inequality to become agents of personal and community transformation. Our model has 4 pillars: leadership, social justice, healing, and the arts. Growing out of the dire need for gender-specific services and leadership development for young women impacted by school pushout and the justice system in urban areas, SSLC launched in August of 2014 in Miami and NYC. SSLC creates spaces for participants that encourage leadership, teach principles of social justice and community organizing, and invite healing. S.O.U.L Sisters also works on a macro level to interrupt cycles of criminalization and violence along racial lines through 1) engagement of all SSLC participants in social action projects, and 2) professional development on the implementation of restorative justice and trauma-informed practices for staff in schools and community-based organizations. *Our definition of "girl" includes trans and gender nonconforming youth.