COMMUNITY BRIDGES INC
8757 Georgia Avenue, Silver Spring, MD 20910 www.communitybridges-md.org

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Organizations Filed Purposes: Community Bridges empowers diverse girls to become exceptional students, positive leaders and healthy young women. We accomplish our mission through programs that develop the girls academic self-esteem, leadership, and understanding of issues that impact women and girls.

Our integrated programming encourages our girls to lead holistically healthy lives: emotionally, socially, and physically. Weekly lessons focus on topics such as healthy relationships, cultural awareness, and leadership and goal setting. Lessons are reinforced with out-of-school trips and activities such as participation in our annual Career & Innovation Summit, attendance at youth empowerment conferences, opportunities for community advocacy, college tours, and more.The Community Bridges school-based Girls Program encourages girls in 4th through 12th grades to explore their identity, increase their self-esteem, and build their character in a safe and nurturing space. Using a tested, grade-integrated curriculum girls in our CB Girls program develop leadership skills and personal responsibility through a variety of experiential and in-classroom learning opportunities. Our Girls Program supports the growth of our young women over a 9 year continuum by helping them understand their potential and life choices, learn creative strategies to become leaders, and break their familys cycle of poverty using education as a vehicle.CB had an AmeriCorps VISTA in FY'20 who was dedicated to developing and implementing the formal Alumnae Program. The VISTA started a curriculum focused on developing a system to track CB Alumnae's successes, struggles and college retention. As alumnae continue to stay engaged with the organization, in turn they will then serve as volunteers for the CB Volunteer Program. Our alumnae network serves over 100 girls attending colleges such as Montgomery College, University of Maryland (College Park/Baltimore County), Towson, Cornell, Morgan State and Bowie State.

The Community Bridges High School program focuses on all six goalareas, with an intentional focus on career mapping, cycle breaking, and confidence in self related to decision making for their future. Additionally, we continue to revisit or identify the other three goal areas as supportive elements of social and emotional development and maturity that will assist the high school girl in graduating high school with not only, a secondary plan for college and/or career, but the specific tools and resources to execute the plan with minimal barriers and the know-how to overcome any barriers that may present themselves.CB High: Conducted 36 weeks of after school program sessions (20 weeks in person from October 14 March 12 and 16 weeks virtually from March 16 June 26) in areas that support academic excellence, positive leadership, personal health and team building by involving all participants in planned and monitored community service activities at their schools and in the community. In total there were 248 hours of programming for CBHS with an average of 2.5 hours each session.

The Community Bridges Middle School Program measures all six goals, with agreater emphasis on addressing and teaching skills in the issues and challenges relative to the middle school age group: healthy relationships, servant leadership, confidence in self and the beginning phases of career mapping. We also touch slightly on the commitment to break the cycle of poverty in their families and continue pushing the pride in identity through various forms of exposure.CB Middle: Conducted 36 weeks of after school and virtual program sessions in areas that support academic excellence, positive leadership, personal health and team building by involving all participants in planned and monitored community service activities at their schools and in the community, CBMS staff completed 498 successful calls from March 13 to June 30.

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