The BLACK Lemonade Project is a culturally-based program that utilizes an empowerment curriculum to guide and support intentional conversations about current challenges facing parents of school-age children.  Building upon their individual and collective strength, parents of all races discover new ways to think differently about themselves, their children and their future.  Using culture as a lens, they begin to envision an active family-based community in which they can thrive and grow.   Participants acquire skills and tools to “squeeze success out of life’s circumstances.”  The BLACK Lemonade Project is a refreshing blend of hope, help, pride and vision.         

                                          

The BLACK Lemonade Project assists parents in the acquisition of effective parenting skills, builds upon strengths within their heritage and family structure, improves communication between them and their children, especially boys, and increases academic performance in school. The expected outcomes include:

 

· Reinforcement of effective parenting skills for home and school.

· Promotion of effective home-school communications techniques.

· Introduction to student performance monitoring routines.

· Adoption and practice of empowered parenting routines

· Participants committed to model routines for other parents.