AKEELAH'S ROOM & ENGAGING GIRLS
Akeelah's Room is an initiative, run by Black girls for Black girls, providing safer spaces (face-to-face and online) and tools, which encourage critical thinking and engagement on issues that impact Black girls' diverse lived experiences. Akeelah's Room hosts a series of events, which now includes online programs. For details on drop-ins and other youth programs contact Ronaye at programs@thepowertobe.org
Engaging Girls is PTBI's girls' empowerment initiative, which focuses on longer empowerment-focused resources such as, overnight camps, short-term, and year-long workshops that are delivered to creatively support the education, development, and well-being of girls.
funded by:
AnTI-RacIsm Inclusion & Diversity Education Program
(AIDE)
Anti-racism Inclusive Diversity Education (AIDE) is a project which supports the education of youth on issues of inclusion and diversity. Participants are engaged in conversations about anti-racism, inclusion, and diversity.
The project employs and trains youths to develop a series of workshops, programs, and activities to support the goal of reducing the impact of racism in their schools and communities and by extension Canada while advancing broader cultural understanding and appreciation for diversity.
The AIDE team is working on creating materials for anti-racism, diversity, and inclusion education for children and youth. We will be hosting a youth conference in Feb 2024!
funded by:
finding safety in self
Skills building workshop
Establishing your power through self-regulation, boundaries, mindfulness, and building an intentional community
Finding Safety in Self is a 7-week mental health skills-building program aimed at introducing tools and strategies to support building skills, knowledge, and resources to connect with yourself and re-establish a sense of power, safety, and connection.
Participants will find their power through self-regulation, boundaries, mindfulness, and building an intentional community. Our target population for this program includes folks between the ages of 16 and 24 years.
This program is being developed for online delivery and will be coming soon.
funded by:
camp power to be jamaica
Camp Power to Be started out as a small program in 2010.
In our first year, we provided space for 36 children and implemented the camp in an open field area.
Since then, we have expanded the program to provide services for youth between the ages of 6 and 18 at Negril All Ages School in Negril, Westmoreland.
Mt. Airy Primary and Infant School, located about 20 minutes from Negril, is the new site for the program for July 2023.
Renewing and restoring Camp Power to Be after a three-year hiatus brought on by the impact of COVID-19
We are pleased to be restarting this program in Jamaica with our flagship Literacy and Leadership Camp. Our program at Mt. Airy Primary and Infant School will begin with two streams that concentrate on different aspects of child and youth development with a focus on literacy and leadership.
• Literacy Stream (6 to 11 years old)
• Leadership Stream (12 to 14 years old)
volunteer service learning (JAMAICA)
Furthering our cause is the most important goal of our organization. We seek to support, empower, and provide high quality resources to our community. Our success isn’t measured in terms of wealth or profit margin, but by the value we provide to those we serve. Learn more about what we do below.
