Next Spring, Alternatives For Girls will host the 30th Annual Role Model Dinner. The 2019 dinner will celebrate the role model awardees and raise crucial funds to help girls and young women.
2019 Role Models:
Dr. Althea Simpson
Franklin Community Church
Lashinda Stair
Detroit Police Department
Linda Taliaferro
Meritor, Inc.
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Alternatives For Girls helps homeless and high-risk girls and young women avoid violence, teen pregnancy and exploitation, and helps them to explore and access the support, resources and opportunities necessary to be safe, to grow strong and to make positive choices in their lives. AFG accomplishes this mission through three key services: AFG Prevention, the AFG Shelter/Transition to Independent Living Program (TIL) and AFG Outreach.
Our mission is to help homeless and high-risk girls and young women avoid violence, teen pregnancy and exploitation, and help them to explore and access the support, resources and opportunities necessary to be safe, to grow strong and to make positive choices in their lives.
Sew Great Detroit (SGD), Alternatives For Girls’ social enterprise program that teaches participants both sewing and employment skills, has been hard at work the past couple of months. This summer, they are selling their handmade goods at Ponyride Detroit’s Summer Market Series. The five members, who are also participants in other AFG programs, have created… Each month, Alternatives For Girls’ Volunteer Department, highlights one volunteer who AFG staff recognize as being dedicated, passionate, and going above and beyond. This month we spotlight Marie Lowry, a volunteer in AFG’s Prevention Program! Marie has been a longtime supporter of Alternatives For Girls and spent the past year volunteering as a tutor for the after-school… This spring, high school seniors everywhere will be counting the days until their graduation day. Graduating from high school is an important milestone for every young adult, but for some, the path to graduating is filled with obstacles, like homelessness or violence in their communities. Despite these challenges, young women in AFG’s programs get the…Sew Great Detroit Helps Build Confidence: One young woman’s experience learning how to sew
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We Are Not Disposable, The Series: It Might Be the Music903 West Grand Blvd, Detroit, MI 4820806:00 PM
Open House903 West Grand Blvd, Detroit, MI 4820810:00 AM
Open House903 West Grand Blvd, Detroit, MI 4820805:30 PM
30th Annual Role Model Dinner1777 3rd Ave, Detroit, MI 4822605:30 PM
Open House903 West Grand Blvd, Detroit, MI 4820810:00 AM
Open House903 West Grand Blvd, Detroit, MI 4820805:30 PM
