Women’s History Month and Packaged For Success™

March is National Women’s History Month.  Each year National Women’s History Month employs a unifying theme and recognizes national honorees whose work and lives testify to that theme. Women’s Education – Women’s Empowerment is the theme for National Women’s History Month 2012.  The six women who help illustrate how ethnicity, region, culture, and race relate to Women’s Education – Women’s Empowerment are:

• Emma Hart Willard, Women Higher Education Pioneer
• Charlotte Forten Grimke, Freedman Bureau Educator
• Annie Sullivan, Disability Education Architect
• Gracia Molina Enriquez de Pick, Feminist Educational Reformer
• Okolo Rashid, Community Development Activist and Historical Preservation Advocate
• Brenda Flyswithhawks, American Indian Advocate and Educator

Someone Like Me

January is National Mentoring Month.  For many young people great role models and mentors are a part of their everyday lives. Relatives, teachers, and neighbors often serve in that role. Finding positive role models for youth in the foster care system is often more difficult.  Luckily, role models and mentors don’t always have to be people that we know personally.  There is something we can learn from everyone that we meet and every situation we encounter…positive or negative.