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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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