Our Areas of Focus

Economic Prosperity

• Increase the number of young women entering the workplace and increase employment in high-wage, flexible workplaces.
• Increase the ability of young women to earn and build assets.
• Increase access to credit and capital for young women, particularly young women of color.
• Encourage and foster entrepreneurship in young women, and increase access to the tools they need to succeed.
• Increase availability of affordable, high-quality childcare.

Safety & Anti-violence

• Ensure greater safety from violence at home, in communities, and in systems for young women—particularly young women of color, LGBTQ youth, and immigrant young women.
• Decrease school push-out, suspensions and expulsions, and other exclusionary school discipline practices that disproportionately impact girls of color.
• Reduce violence and provide second chances to justice-involved young women.

 Health & Well-being

• Increase reproductive health access and justice for young women.
• Increase culturally competent health services—mental, physical, and reproductive—in schools, communities, and systems.

Educational Success

• Increase the number of young women– particularly young women of color and young women from low-income backgrounds—who are completing high school and going to college.
• Lessen the opportunity gap in education that produces inequity between girls of color and their white counterparts.
• Increase the number of young women—particularly young women of color—pursuing education and careers in science, technology, engineering and math.

Leadership

• Build policy and advocacy skills in young women.
• Foster self-confidence and independence.
• Amplify the leadership of young women.