Placing Black Girls At Promise

While Black girls have some opportunities to keep them strong, the trauma they experience results in risky behaviors and emotional functioning related in the data. In addition to building strength and increasing resiliency, the trauma our girls are experiencing needs much more attention from all of us.

42% of African American girls surveyed live with one parent. Nine percent live with grandparents or other adult relatives.

Who Influences Black Girls?

Half of the girls surveyed said their mothers have the greatest influence over their lives. Nearly a quarter said God played that role. Grandparents and boyfriends were also named often with fathers named by only 8 percent of the girls.

35% 50%+ 54% are academically motivated and 37% do their homework.

97% 95% 80% are sexually active. have been threatened, slapped, hit or punched at home. have experienced emotional abuse. of girls surveyed said they like being a girl but 57% believe they are treated unfairly because they are girls. of girls surveyed said they like being Black and 62% believe they are treated unfairly because they are Black.

Source: Rise Sister Rise Research Study

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