EmpowHER of the Palm Beaches

EmpowHER Leadership Academy For Girls Now Accepting Applications for the 2024-2025 School Year

Deadline September 15, 2024

https://empowherofthepalmbeaches.org/leadership-academy/

Criteria to participate:
- Have an interest in leadership development
- Full-time student in Palm Beach County School System - public, private or charter
- Grade Point Average (GPA) of a 2.8 and higher
- Must be entering into Junior or Senior year in high school
- Age is not a factor

This program supports diversity and accepts all races, religions and nationalities

EmpowHER Leadership Academy now accepting applications for 2024-2025 school year... download an application...
https://empowherofthepalmbeaches.org/

EmpowHER PBC Leadership Academy for Girls Advocacy Trip To Tallahassee

EmpowHER Leadership Academy for Girls is currently accepting applications for the 2024-2025 program year

Criteria to participate:
- Have an interest in leadership development
- Full-time student in Palm Beach County School System - public, private or charter
- Grade Point Average (GPA) of a 2.8 and higher
- Must be entering into Junior or Senior year in high school
- Age is not a factor

This program supports diversity and accepts all races, religions and nationalities

For more information

EmpowHER celebrates her 9th year of empowering women and girls

Received some great news today!

Last year (2023), EmpowHER Leadership Academy for Girls launched our Advocacy Project "Feel the Vibe" after watching Xavier Ferguson (seen in photo), who was 6 at the time, adapting to the sounds of barber equipment while getting his hair cut.

We met with the Palm Beach County Parks and Recreation Department asking them to enhance our county parks to include accessibility and develop SENSORY stations at county parks for children with autism spectrum and other disabilities.

On June 11, 2024, Palm Beach County Parks and Recreation Department announced they are installing communication boards with pictures and symbols at playgrounds in fourteen county-operated park locations to help non-verbal, speech-challenged and early-learning individuals communicate with friends and caregivers.

A few of the parks are near our black and brown communities. Supported by donations, the communication boards are scheduled to be installed at Limestone Creek Playground, Cabana Colony Park, Westgate Park, Haverhill Park, Lake Lytal Park, Seminole Palms Park, Glades Pioneer Park, John Prince Park (Boundless Playground), San Castle Community Park, West Boynton Park, Caloosa Park, Lake Ida West Park (All Abilities Playground), Burt Aaronson South County Regional Park (All Abilities Playground), and Loggers Run Park.

Today's youth group collaboration is on the way... Young ladies from EmpowHER Leadership Academy for Girls, Alpha Kappa Alpha 20 Pearls and Delta Gems... joined together on their advocacy project... Rub-A-Dub... cell phone activation

Youth Collaboration is real!
Thank You Suncoast Community High "Girls Help Girls" for donating boxes and boxes to EmpowHER's Project Rub-A-Dub

It was indeed an honor for EmpowHER of The Palm Beaches to be nominated for Encore Palm Beach County Wisdom and Experience Works Awards (Small Nonprofit)... our mission of empowering women to Think Big is more relevant than ever as technology continues to develop

Deadline approaching... EmpowHER Leadership Academy for Girls is currently accepting applications for the 2023-2024 program year

Criteria to participate:
- Have an interest in leadership development
- Full-time student in Palm Beach County School System - public, private or charter
- Grade Point Average (GPA) of a 2.8 and higher
- Must be entering into Junior or Senior year in high school
- Age is not a factor

This program supports diversity and accepts all races, religions and nationalities

For more information

The South Florida Fair & Palm Beach County Expositions, Inc. is proud to annually award $65,000 in scholarships to students who have exhibited a desire to further their education.

Looking to apply? Our Scholarship Application is now available here: www.southfloridafair.com/scholarships

Application packet must be received by the Fair no later than midnight October 18, 2023✨

Thank you Florida Power & Light as a proud sponsor of the South Florida Fair Scholarships

EmpowHER Leadership Academy for Girls is currently accepting applications for the 2023-2024 program year

Criteria to participate:
- Have an interest in leadership development
- Full-time student in Palm Beach County School System - public, private or charter
- Grade Point Average (GPA) of a 2.8 and higher
- Must be entering into Junior or Senior year in high school
- Age is not a factor

This program supports diversity and accepts all races, religions and nationalities

For more information

EmpowHER of the Palm Beaches turns 8... a special thank you to our Board of Directors and Team Members who assisted in transforming the lives of women and girls here in Palm Beach County during these 8 years

Alexis Panier, Former member of EmpowHER Leadership Academy for Girls has started a new venture... beHERlighten by clicking the photo

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School year is coming to an end but our advocacy continues

Big things happened today...

EmpowHER Leadership Academy for Girls 2022-2023 - President Kemmy Benedict and Advocacy Project Lead Sari Morales, presented our Feel The Vibe (Sensory Park) Advocacy Project to Palm Beach County Parks and Recreation Department...

Joining our advocacy team was Jamie Howe, President and CEO JBH Enterprises and Keli Ferguson Parental Advocate

As this project develops, we will be featuring our journey highlighting the wonderful work of Palm Beach County Parks & Recreation Department

Thank you Shandra Stringer for an awesome meeting with the EmpowHER Leadership Academy for Girls...

Entrepreneurship is the activity of setting up a business and taking the financial risks in the hope of profit.

Five take a ways:
1) Overcome your fears in starting a business with faith
2) You interaction with people is an experience and not a transaction
3) Do the math before you start (Profit, Pricing, Researching)
4) When you fail, it doesn't mean you are a failure
5) Ask for the right help - assistance is always a favorable decision
6) Be careful when you are in a desperate situation

Ms. Stringer, we are ready to start our own business!

On behalf of the Board of Directors of EmpowHER of the Palm Beaches, EmpowHER Leadership Academy for Girls and beHERlight Mentors

Happy Easter!

EmpowHER's vision encourages transformation (Rebirth and Renewal).

This Easter and Passover Season is a time to be grateful as you reflect, refocus and redirect the purpose of your life.

May you have a very special Easter weekend!

He is Risen!

Geanine and Kalinthia

South Florida barber forms bond with boy with autism For all of the people who help you day to day, to keep going back to your barber, you build a certain level of trust.

Each year EmpowHER Leadership Academy for Girls advocates for subjects centered around empowering youth in Palm Beach County.

The FEEL THE VIBE Advocacy Project is a project we created to focus on Diversity, Equity. Accessibility and Inclusion of children with autism in Palm Beach County. Our goal is to provide children with autism and their families access to the resources and opportunities while advocating to create spaces where child with autism can freely and fully express themselves. We believe where their diverse experiences are celebrated and valued, a sense of inclusion is fostered.

How can you help? This year’s project focus is to support Project Brilliance. Project Brilliance is an ABA therapy company committed to providing the best quality, ethical, and most innovative ABA therapy to children on the autism spectrum and with related disabilities, all the while striving to set a standard of care in the field.

Below is a list of items you can donate to Project Brilliance 3 locations
• Sensory Toys (all ages)
• Age-appropriate books
• Classroom area rugs/carpets
• Children bicycles/tricycles (BOCA)
• Basketball hoops (STARs Enrichment Program – Palm Beach Gardens)
• Vibe Boards (STARs Enrichment Program – Palm Beach Gardens)

Center Locations:
Palm Beach Gardens, Florida
9000 Burma Road
Suite 109
Palm Beach Gardens, FL 33403
(866) 916 3579
[email protected]

Lake Worth, Florida
3898 Via Poinciana Drive
Suite 12
Lake Worth, FL 33467
(561) 508 5993
[email protected]

Boca Raton, Florida
951 Broken Sound Parkway
Suite 350
Boca Raton, FL 33487
(561) 465 5537
[email protected]

Deadline for donations:
May 14, 2023 (Mother’s Day)

If you have questions or concerns, please feel free and call us (561) 336-0498

Each year EmpowHER Leadership Academy for Girls advocates for subjects centered around empowering youth in Palm Beach County.

The FEEL THE VIBE Advocacy Project is a project we created to focus on Diversity, Equity. Accessibility and Inclusion of children with autism in Palm Beach County. Our goal is to provide children with autism and their families access to the resources and opportunities while advocating to create spaces where child with autism can freely and fully express themselves. We believe where their diverse experiences are celebrated and valued, a sense of inclusion is fostered.

Our advocacy is to encourage Palm Beach County Commissioners and Park & Recreation to build an innovative inclusive playground to accommodate cognitive, communicative, social/emotional and sensory disabilities.

South Florida barber forms bond with boy with autism For all of the people who help you day to day, to keep going back to your barber, you build a certain level of trust.

EmpowHER Leadership Academy for Girls had the pleasure of volunteering during the Ninth Annual Mayor's Ball... the ball was a lot different and the girls were pulled in many directions but they showed great leadership skills and executed well... extremely proud of each of them

EmpowHER of the Palm Beaches’ CALL TO ACTION supports women and girls in self-actualizing their inner power – to truly advance women’s empowerment. It is designed to address the needs of the next generation of empowered women leaders and change makers that will transform our world. It encourages today’s empowered young women who are doing more than making his-story to create her-story. They rewrite their destinies.

As the Founder of EmpowHER of the Palm Beaches and seven-year constant, I felt I was equipped to handle and adjust my momentum to any of our challenges. However, the news of a fatal hit-and-run in Miami Gardens on February 12, 2023 left me speechless. One of “my girls?” That was the farthest thought, much less undesired reality, I could have ever imagined. Nevertheless, through tear-stained eyes, empowered with inner strength and God given fortitude, I released this new chapter in a book that I thought was already well written.

Sha’Raiyah Story, an 18-year-old 2021-2022 member of EmpowHER of the Palm Beaches Leadership Academy for Girls known as Shay is gone. The independent one...quiet but powerful...curious enough to try anything...humble enough to allow God to be a part of her life is gone. The young woman that attended Royal Palm Beach High School and was enjoying her Freshman year at Florida Memorial University is gone. Her life has ended, but her-story will live on forever.

Please remember Shay as you view this video of her ministering to “Something Has to Break” by gospel recording artist Kierra Sheard-Kelly during a mental health presentation that the academy created about the “pros and cons of issues that developed among high school girls during the height of the global pandemic, COVID-19”.

Thank you, Shatavia Nubin, for allowing Shay to be a part of us...

EGOT..... Thats Viola Davis, the 18th person to achieve an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony Award....

VIOLA DAVIS Wins Best Audio Book, Narration, and Storytelling Recording ‘FINDING ME’ | 2023 GRAMMYs Watch VIOLA DAVIS acceptance speech for Best Audio Book, Narration, and Storytelling Recording ‘FINDING ME’ at the 2023 GRAMMYs.About the Recording Academy ...

Those who really know me, know I am very passionate about the leadership development of our youth.

I had the opportunity to judge Palm Beach County's FBLA District Competition today.

This year was extra special because EmpowHER Laura Babooram judged as well.

The most rewarding was seeing one of my EmpowHER Leadership Academy for Girls in red, waiting nervously for her competition.. . So proud of her... didnt judge her competition but I am sure she rocked it!