The vision of Morning Star Rising is that each girl will achieve greater self-knowledge and self-respect by becoming aware of her own potential to be an important member of her community in a way that is satisfying to herself and of benefit to others.

Our mission is to help adolescent girls make a successful transition to young adulthood by providing a structure that combines curriculum with community-based experiences and that will support them in making personally healthy and pro-social decisions.

Goals

• To create an after-school program, offering girls a positive affiliation group, that builds a bridge between middle school and high school;

• To provide an engaging structure combining activity-based curriculum with community-based experience that will guide adolescent girls toward personally healthy, pro-social goals;

• To increase school attendance, academic grades and high school graduation rates; and

• To reduce juvenile justice contacts, substance abuse, and the teen pregnancy rate;
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  To produce replicable models that address improved ways to support adolescent youth.