Resources Inspiring Success And Empowering

{HER} Code Summer STEM Experience is an initiative with a goal to engage, empower, and enrich the lives of girls (ages 9-17) with a history of CPS involvement or with special familial situations through guided discovery in STEM. In a five day program girls will participate in classroom based learning, hands on field experience, real-life examples of women in STEM and community involvement.

Mission IM Possible (MIP) is a program designed to offer the individualized special attention to children (11-17) and youth (ages 18-24) through education, community based-activities and internship/co-op opportunities as delivered by mentors. One in Five foster youth will become homeless after the age 18, only half will be employed by the age of 24 and less than 3 percent will earn a college degree. MIP's role in the community is to provide supportive services alongside various state programs, agencies and nonprofit organizations. MIP is built upon six guiding domains of competencies identified as protective factors to success for youth when offered before aging out.

The Professional Leadership Institute is a professional development education that provides trauma informed and culturally competent training to professionals in the lives of youth and young adults who are in transition. Through the Professional Leadership institute we have trained over 100 professionals across the state of Texas. We provide continuing education units to Social Work professionals through online learning, in person education and partnering with nonprofit organizations to host CEU opportunities.

RISE was founded in April 2015 by our Founder and Director Renika Atkins. RISE has over six years of experience in serving homeless and formerly homeless youth. It has been our experience that the majority of homeless youth or formerly homeless youth have suffered from childhood trauma or involvement from protective services through the state. We have an array of programming that serves foster youth, foster alumni and youth/young adults with developmental disabilities. RISE also provides training and educational services to professionals in the social work, health and educational fields. Currently we have served over 300 youth/young adults through our programming and over 150 professionals.Our current programs and initiatives include:The Professional Leadership Institute is a professional development education that provides trauma informed and culturally competent training to professionals in the lives of youth and young adults who are in transition. Through the Professional Leadership institute we have trained over 100 professionals across the state of Texas. We provide continuing education units to Social Work professionals through online learning, in person education and partnering with nonprofit organizations to host CEU opportunities.