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Bethune Program Development Center
The Bethune Program Center, one of the four components of the National Centers for African American Women, serves as a clearinghouse and resource for the effective delivery of service programs that are designed to support women of African descent in their efforts to achieve and maintain self-sufficiency. Through the coordination and linkage of community-based programs, NCNW serves its constituencies and carries out its program functions in three primary issue areas: health, education and economic empowerment.
These program functions: 1) technical assistance and training; 2) public education; and 3) coalition building and collaboration, are implemented based on the NCNW four-point volunteer service delivery model instituted in the Dorothy I. Height Leadership Institute with these objectives:
- To build the capacity of volunteers, directly and in coalitions, in order to respond to the diverse needs of the African American community.
- To build the capacity of community-based organizations to connect African American women to the resources and support necessary to achieve and maintain their full potential.
- To serve as a catalyst for program development and action in communities in the areas of health, education, and economic empowerment.
- To assess community services and materials related to program development.
- To determine how the role of the national office and how the national and local program services will function.
Following are some highlights of the recent work of the Bethune Program Center:
African American Women as We Age
Partnership for Academic Achievement
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