LIGHTS
Choices: Supporting Girls in Transition
About this Toolkit
The aim of the toolkit is to share the lessons,challenges and methodology used by the NiNa Young Women’s Leadership Program to support young women in transition. Transition in this case include transition from state care at the age of eighteen into mainstream society. Transition from at risk situations and poor choices.
The Transition Journey
Challenges and roadblocks faced by young ladies transitioning from state care.
The Transition Programme provides resource networks, safe physical and psychological spaces, personal healing, growth and development and facilitates education for young women aging out of state care. NiNa's Transition Programme lowers the likelihood of these women disappearing, becoming statistics or perpetuating the cycles of abuse and neglect that they were exposed too is high.
