February 26, 2020 | Issue 2
UPCOMING EVENTS
AAYLS Big Sista & LiL Sista Event
March 13th, 2020
4300 S Lincoln St, Englewood
High Schools 10-1:30
Middle Schools 11-1:30
Deadline to Register Thursday 2/28
Journey Through The Decades of Black Excellence Fashion Show.
April 17, 2020, 6:30-8:45
Hamilton Middle School
Trauma-Informed/Sensitive Practices: Lessons from Trauma and Postsecondary Success
Offered in March 26, 2020
University of Colorado-Denver
Facilitator: Dr. Plashan McCune
GlobalMindEd Conference
June 6th-8th, 2020-Denver CO.

Dr. Plashan McCune will be presenting : Ensuring the Success of First Gen Students by using Trauma-Informed/Sensitive Programming.
We will also be taking some of AAYLS Members to participate and lead. Come join us for the Industry Marketplace.

African American Young Ladies Summit Program
Leadership Camp & More
Our journey to Snow Mountain Ranch was an amazing, awe-inspiring adventure. We enjoyed learning to cook and demonstrating our cooking skills, While preparing to lead our March 13th Big/Lil Sista Event. We are so impressed with the strength and resilience our young ladies have. Our love and respect grew along with our muscles climbing up the snow hill.
Our 55 deep crew was overflowing with connectedness and tears. We are looking forward to next year.

My Favorite Part:
Tubing, Vision Board, Night Hike, Connecting with other young ladies like me, Walking, having a big house, swimming,
Issues to Action
This year in AAYLS we are focusing on creating and supporting leadership in our young ladies. We have incorporated a component called Issues to Action where our young ladies are asked-what is going on in their schools/communities that they would like to change. We then lead them through a process of contributing to this change.

We will providing updates on their work here.

Look forward to hearing great things from:
Dr. MLK Early College
Bear Valley
McAuliffe at Manual
McAuliffe International
Our young ladies are doing great things.
Dr. McCune Presents Deep-Dive at National
Trauma-Sensitive Conference 2020

Dr. Plashan McCune presented a deep-dive session at the National Trauma-Sensitive Schools Conference, attended by 1,800 educators and administrators from across the nation, February 16-18 in Atlanta, GA.

"Participants were excited to take back practices to use in their own settings," McCune says. "Each of participant left with a personal plan. I asked them to email me their plans and I look forward to hearing about their progress." I have heard great
things already, I am looking forward to hearing more.
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