Community Bridges empowers girls from diverse backgrounds to become exceptional students, positive leaders and healthy young women. Founded in 1997 as a youth development organization committed to meeting the needs of underserved low-income and immigrant youth in the Long Branch community of East Silver Spring, in 1998 CB launched Jump Start Girls! Adelante Niñas!, a leadership and empowerment program for middle school girls. We have since then expanded our programming to include elementary and high school programming and as recently as 2010, added a two-generation approach through including the girls’ families in the development. The CB Girls program is a leadership development, advocacy, and youth development initiative for adolescent girls, teens and young women between the ages of 9-18 years old in grades 4-12. The program provides opportunities for girls and young women to explore their identity (most are from immigrant backgrounds), develop their self-esteem, build character, learn tools strategies for overcoming adversity and barriers, build their leadership capacity and become college and/or career ready. Girls whom enroll in the program are from households where poverty is a cycle and come out of the program breaking their cycle of poverty through attending college and becoming job ready.
Programs:
CB Girls- a leadership and positive youth development, advocacy, and college and career planning initiative for at-risk adolescent girls, teens and young women between the ages of 9-18 years old in grades 4-12.
CB Family Insititute-a program designed to provide parents and/or guardians skills, competencies and social capital that will assist their children in breaking the cycle of poverty.
CB Mentoring-a program for women ages 25+ interested in mentoring young girls.
CB College and Career-a program specifically for junior and senior girls preparing them with toolkits and resources for successful application, enrollment and beyond.
Community Bridges Incorporated Address
8757 Georgia Avenue Silver Spring, MD United States