CCSF Women's Resource Center

Here are some resources around the Bay Area, feel free to add more in the comment section :) Oasis for Girls -Youth Organization that provides three afterschool programs: RISE, CREATE, AND ENVISION.  RISE =building life skills  CREATE =Using writing and arts for healthy self expression  ENVISION =expanding job readiness and career awareness  Oasis for Girls Website    Young Women's Freedom Center - Empowering Cis and Trans young women and men, gender expansive people who have been impacted by the juvenile and criminal justice system. Coming together to create economic and leadership opportunities through employment, internships and advocacy.  Young Women's Freedom Center La Casa De Las Madres -Crisis response, Support services, and Prevention Education on Domestic Violence.   If you are in a crisis here are the numbers below:  Adults: (877) 503-1850 Teens: (877) 923-0700 Text: (415) 200-3575 La Casa De Las Madres Rafiki Coalition -Eliminating health inequalities for San Fran

  Starting off this Fall semester at CCSF's Student Equity Support Strategies , with Emmy award nominated full feature length documentary -"PERSONAL STATEMENT", that follows the lives of three high school seniors from marginalized communities on their journey of getting into college and obstacles they encounter, as they become peer counselors to their fellow classmates and to themselves, working to close the college gap.  Our hero's are: 1. Enoch  Enoch plays high school football and lives with his sister and her child. His mother is in and out of homeless shelters, which becomes an issue when he applies for college and needs her financial documents to qualify for aid. With academics not the greatest, his only chance of a full ride is through sports.  You can read Enoch's opinion piece in the NY Times:  The Implicit Punishment of Daring to go to College When Poor  by clicking the link.  " When I heard that federal prosecutors were  charging 50 people in six s