Encouragement For 2015
This New Year of 2015 offers new opportunities to move forward in your lives as young ladies and young women. Young ladies must understand that they are more powerful than they could ever imagine. The time for self-doubt, low self-esteem and low academic abilities should cease just as 2014 ceased and 2015 begins. It sounds […]
JIW Girls Give Back With the help of PHH Mortgage!
The Journey Into Womanhood program participants, experienced the true meaning of the season last Saturday during their community service project. The girls chose to participate in Community Connection of Jacksonville’s Adopt A Room, where they prepared a room for a woman in need of housing. Before the project began, PHH Mortgage stepped in to provide supplies to […]
We’re Thankful! See Why Our Girls & Volunteers Love ERI!
In honor of the holiday season we want to share what makes Empowerment Resources Inc. (ERI) great! Executive Director, Elexia Coleman-Moss is thankful for the families and volunteers who make up the Empowerment Resources village! Your donations of time, talent, and treasure help us continue to make an impact on the Jacksonville community. Take a […]
JIW Participant Arrington & Mom Share Their Experience
The Journey Into Womanhood participants along with their female caregivers enjoyed quality time and fun at the Keepin’ It Real Mother Daughter Conference on November 8th. The event featured a keynote address by MTV personality and motivational speaker, Julie Marie Carrier, breakout sessions and more. Read their thoughts below: Veronica: As a parent I thoroughly enjoyed the […]
JIW Alumna Speaks at JA Girl$ Event
Journey Into Womanhood (JIW) alumna, Jasmine Harris had the opportunity to share the stage with Nascar Racer, Danica Patrick last month at Junior Achievement’s Smart Women Make Change event. Jasmine shared the impact the JA Girl$ program’s partnership with JIW had on her life with more than 400 business leaders at the event. Read Jasmine’s […]
Spanking children does hurt By: Elexia Coleman-Moss
Spanking hurts, not just physically but emotionally for both the child and parent. Ask many parents, and they will say it hurts me to spank my child. Children are often confused when parents spank them and then say I love you. Parents may use spanking as a discipline technique for many reasons to include: teaching […]
JIW Participant, Nyla S. Shares Her L.A.W. Camp Experience
Youth Advisory Council Members, Nyla & Tierra attended 4H L.A.W Camp! L.A.W. stands for Leadership Adventure Weekend, and the camp teaches leadership and communication for 4H officers. Read Nyla’s experience in her own words below: To start, L.A.W Camp is a leadership camp designed for active members of 4-H within the Florida Region. It allows […]
Check Out Our New Website
We are happy to announce the launch of our new website www.empowermentresourcesinc.org. Over the last few months our team has worked to bring you a new and improved website that not only helps us share what we do to impact the community, but also increases our ability to change lives. The site reflects our organization’s focus […]
Four JIW Alumni graduated from Florida universities this summer!
We’re proud to recognize four young women, who participated in the Journey Into Womanhood (JIW) program as young girls during their transition to adulthood. We would like to congratulate each JIW Alumni by highlighting their recent academic achievements. Jessica Polote, 2010 JIW Alumni Graduated August 2, from the University of Central Florida with a Bachelor […]
Buy Jaguars Tickets through GIVE and GO!
Empowerment Resources is proud to offer discounted tickets to the best game in town… home tickets to the Jacksonville Jaguars Football game. For every ticket purchased to any of the Jaguars 2014 home games through our secure Give and Go 100 link, up to $30 will automatically be donated to help empower students and families on the […]