Pregnancy Prevention Education – Core Grant
Planned Parenthood will provide 1,600 comprehensive sexuality education programs to youth in middle schools and high schools in Iowa.
Social Emotional Learning: Breaking Down Barriers to Success – Core Grant
St. Mark’s Youth Enrichment before- and after-school programs not only address affordable access to care beyond school hours but effectively improve students’ reading, STEM, and social emotional skills.
Iowa Women in Trades Apprenticeship Opportunity Network – Core Grant
The University of Iowa Labor Center will set up a pre-apprentice program and a network to improve access to registered apprenticeships and ensure completion rates and job placement for women in the construction trades.
She Rises
She Rises is a new suite of programs that aim at tackling barriers to success that at-risk women and young girls face in their community.
Opportunity Dubuque – BCCCSF Grant
Opportunity Dubuque builds career pathways for students to enter the workforce and continue their education and training, while filling employers’ demand for talent.
Smart Girls – Core Grant
The SMART Girls program provides the space, support and tools needed to navigate adolescence and grow into self-sufficient women.
Social Emotional Learning: Expanding Model for Greater Impact – CORE Grant
St. Mark’s is expanding its social emotional learning model to have direct programming for girls throughout the entire year, family engagement and education efforts targeted for single mothers to gain skills to foster healthy parenting practices at home, and adding training and consulting for other organizations in effective implementation of social emotional strategies.
Toolbox: Giving Girls Tools for Life
Toolbox: Giving Tools for Life provides girls ages 8-18 with hands-on instruction and experience in skilled trades.
Iowa Women in Trades: Apprenticeship Opportunity Network
The Iowa Women in Trades Network (IWIT) links unemployed or underemployed Iowa women with opportunities to prepare for and enroll in registered apprentice programs in construction trades. The ultimate goal of this project is to build a pipeline to high-quality construction jobs for Iowa women.
Harvesting Our Potential: Training Women Farmers
Through Harvesting Our Potential: Training Women Farmers, this program connects women who aspire to farm with a successful woman farmer as a mentor for critical on-farm experience, networking events, and business training, so they will be successful farmers.
