Nollie Jenkins Family Center
Building & Sustaining Strong Families, Leaders & Communities
Mission
NJFC’s mission is to empower the citizens of Holmes County. We work to accomplish this by developing and supporting grassroots leaders, community organizers, parents, students, and members of the African American community, as well as community-based organizations in ways that ensure they have the necessary tools/skills of community organizing, advocacy, and activism to increase family engagement, build for meaningful social change, effectively impact local and state policy, family and governance structures, and build stronger/sustainable organizations and communities.
Vision
We envision an energized and engaged community where all people, young and old are valued, nurtured and supported as we work together across generations & lifestyles to build and sustain equitable and purposeful communities that ensure that environmental, political, cultural, recreational, educational, economic, and spiritual needs of its citizens are actualized and preserved.
Reading Program
Our Reading Program serves children and youth ranging from pre-school aged to 15-years-old. It is a cooperative learning environment in which young children read and are read to by older students.The program also works to expose children and youth to African American & Latinas authors§ illustrators.
Youth Leadership & Development
Program fosters the development of civic engagement, policy analysis, and student leadership opportunities at both the school and community level. The training program builds the capacity of young people to understand and use their collective power
to impact policy formation and develop leadership skills directly related to the social justice movement issues. The program nurtures the development of power through community organizing to build high performing, high quality, healthy, safe schools and opportunity for student leadership.
The Princess & Queendom Initiative
Black girls in upper elementary, middle school, and girls transitioning to 9th grade and throughout high school. Our organization prides itself in creating "safe spaces" for young girls to gather, discuss, and engage in conversations about self-esteem, personal goals, life in general, and many other topics that include activities critical to growing, building, and sustaining spiritually, physically and emotionally strong young ladies of the future.
Scholars of Peace
Scholars of Peace is participatory action research project promoting socio-economic change in Holmes County. The program engages K-12 students, their parents and schools in learning activities, service-learning placement experiences; along with special-student-designed projects that address social and environmental needs. The SOP program explores and identifies resources that enhance strategic learning and offer effective strategies to resolving disputes and conflicts through our Peer Mediation and Conflict Resolution programs