Overview

The Colored Girls Empowerment Project (C.G.E.P.) is a mentoring program for young women of color in The Bronx that provides intersectional, inclusive and comprehensive sex education, social justice and financial literacy training, and college admissions counseling. This program will empower young women of color to make educated and healthy choices through its intersectional, inclusive and comprehensive sex education curriculum based on the National Sexuality Education Standards. CGEP's curriculum is unique in that it begins with training in social justice (power, privilege and oppression) to provide context for CGEP's very integrated sexual health education curriculum. CGEP encourages financial security and success in young women of color through financial literacy training. This program will also improve college accessibility by providing workshops and one-on-one counseling on financial aid, the college application process and studying habits for mentees ages 16-18.