Causes: Children & Youth, Community Coalitions, Youth Development, Youth Development Programs
Mission: Founded in 1995, The Brotherhood/Sister Sol (Bro/Sis) provides comprehensive, holistic and long-term support services to youth who range in age from eight to twenty-two. Bro/Sis offers wrap around evidence-based programming. The organization focuses on issues such as leadership development and educational achievement, sexual responsibility, sexism and misogyny, political education and social justice, Pan-African and Latino history, and global awareness. Bro/Sis provides four-six year rites of passage programming, thorough five day a week after school care, school and home counseling, summer camps, job training and employment, college preparation, community organizing training, and international study programs to Africa and Latin America. We are locally based, with a national reach, as Bro/Sis publishes assorted curricula and collections of our members’ writings; trains educators from throughout the nation on our approach; and our leadership is invited to speak and present at educational and policy convenings and conferences across the country.
Results: 94% of BHSS alumni have graduated from high school or earned a GED; with 88% receiving their high school degreeWhereas the high school graduation rate in New York City is 58%, in Harlem the graduation rate is 42% and the Schott Foundation found that the graduation rate of Black and Latino boys is New York City 34%The teenaged pregnancy rate at BHSS is less than 2%; whereas Harlem’s teenaged pregnancy rate is 15%No alumni or member of BHSS is incarcerated and less than 1% have a felony conviction; whereas one out of three Black males, ages 20-29 are under supervision of the prison system – incarcerated, on probation or on parole95% of BHSS alumni are either enrolled in college or working full time; whereas 30% of youth in Harlem, ages 18-25, are either enrolled in college or employed full time
Mission: Founded in 1995, The Brotherhood/Sister Sol (Bro/Sis) provides comprehensive, holistic and long-term support services to youth who range in age from eight to twenty-two. Bro/Sis offers wrap around evidence-based programming. The organization focuses on issues such as leadership development and educational achievement, sexual responsibility, sexism and misogyny, political education and social justice, Pan-African and Latino history, and global awareness. Bro/Sis provides four-six year rites of passage programming, thorough five day a week after school care, school and home counseling, summer camps, job training and employment, college preparation, community organizing training, and international study programs to Africa and Latin America. We are locally based, with a national reach, as Bro/Sis publishes assorted curricula and collections of our members’ writings; trains educators from throughout the nation on our approach; and our leadership is invited to speak and present at educational and policy convenings and conferences across the country.
Results: 94% of BHSS alumni have graduated from high school or earned a GED; with 88% receiving their high school degreeWhereas the high school graduation rate in New York City is 58%, in Harlem the graduation rate is 42% and the Schott Foundation found that the graduation rate of Black and Latino boys is New York City 34%The teenaged pregnancy rate at BHSS is less than 2%; whereas Harlem’s teenaged pregnancy rate is 15%No alumni or member of BHSS is incarcerated and less than 1% have a felony conviction; whereas one out of three Black males, ages 20-29 are under supervision of the prison system – incarcerated, on probation or on parole95% of BHSS alumni are either enrolled in college or working full time; whereas 30% of youth in Harlem, ages 18-25, are either enrolled in college or employed full time
info@brotherhood-sistersol.org
512 West 143rd Street, New York, NY 10031
212-283-7044
Children & Youth
New York
