Student Organization Spotlight (SOS): Women and Youth Supporting Each Other (WYSE)

By (Again with the acronyms) Kelly Kinas ‘16

Sometimes, there are amazing organizations out there where the participants spend so much time trying to make the world a better place for people. WYSE is one of the many organizations on USC’s campus that really bring together the surrounding community of women with the female students of USC. Women and Youth Supporting Each Other (or WYSE) empowers young women by providing the resources and support necessary to make positive life choices and create community change.

HOW FREAKIN’ COOL AND AMAZING IS THAT??

WYSE envisions a world in which all women are empowered to determine their future and effect change. Mentors and mentees are there to encourage each other. Read on below to find out more!

Women and Youth Supporting Each Other is a year-long curriculum-based mentorship program that partners college women with middle school girls in under-served communities across the country. The WYSE program consists of weekly curriculum-based group sessions after school, one-on-one mentoring, and special events.

Each college mentor is paired with one middle school mentee for the entire school year. Once a week, mentors travel to their middle school sites to host a group session for mentees on a specific topic. WYSE mentors use an up-to-date and program-specific curriculum to plan and build weekly sessions that are tailored to the unique needs of our mentees. Using the multi-faceted WYSE curriculum as a guide, mentors engage their mentees in decision-making games, in-depth discussions and community action projects.

WYSE is a national curriculum-based group mentoring program that provides young women with the resources, information and support necessary to make informed decisions about relationships, sexuality, their futures and to create community change.

Women and Youth Supporting Each Other empowers young women by providing the resources and support necessary to make positive life choices and create community change.

• WYSE promotes meaningful group-based and one-on-one mentoring relationships between college women and adolescent women in underserved communities.

• WYSE encourages young women to make informed and healthy decisions about their relationships, sexual health, and future options.

• WYSE provides college women with the skills and insights to become influential role models and mentors.

• WYSE empowers participants to become advocates for expanding opportunities for women of all ages and backgrounds.

Interested in following WYSE or possibly becoming more involved? Their website and their Facebook page are here so feel free to click the link or give it a like to get updates about this amazing organization. 

Mentor on and Fight on!

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