SiHLE - Sisters Informing, Healing, Living, Empowering

The SiHLE project is a social-skills training intervention for African American girls and young women. SiHLE, which means 'beauty' in Swahili, helps young women learn to value themselves and realize their value to both family and community. It focuses on fostering sisterhood among young and adult black women, identifying their values, goals and dreams, teaching assertiveness skills to communicate, and distinguishes between healthy and unhealthy relationships. It explores these issues in relation to ethnic and gender pride, uses poetry by African American women and is facilitated by African American women.

For more information, please contact:

Irvienne Goldson
Education and Training Manager
goldson@bostonabcd.org
617.348.6263