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Delta GEMS
The GEMS (Growing & Empowering Myself Successfully) is a
national program sponsored by Delta Sigma Theta Sorority.
The program focuses on programs and activities that sharpen
and enhance the skills of young African-American women
between the ages 14-18 in grades 9 through 12. The
goals for the program are to instill the need to excel
academically, to provide tools that enable girls to sharpen
and enhance their skills to achieve high levels of academic
success, to assist girls in proper goal setting and planning
for their futures (high school and beyond) and to create
compassionate, caring and community minded young women and
actively involve them in service advocacy and community
service opportunities. As a summation, we want the
girls to embrace the aim of the program’s theme Grow
and Empower
Myself Successfully as they transform into the
GEMS that they were destined to be.
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Delta Academy
The Delta Academy was created out of an urgent sense that
bold action was needed to save our young females (ages
11-14) from the perils of academic failure, low self-esteem,
and crippled futures. Delta Academy enriches and enhances
the education that our young teens receive in public schools
across the nation. Specifically, we augment their
scholarship in math, science, and technology, their
opportunities to provide service in the form of leadership
through service learning, and their sisterhood, defined as
the cultivation service learning, and their sisterhood,
defined as the cultivation and maintenance of relationships.
A primary goal of the program is to prepare young girls for
full participation as leaders in the 21st Century.
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EMBODI
EMBODI (Empowering Males to Build Opportunities for
Developing Independence) is a national program sponsored by
Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc, a public-service sorority.
The purpose of this program is to focus on improving the
plight of the African American male ages 13 to 18. Research
data suggest that most African American males continue to be
in crisis and is not reaching their fullest educationally,
socially, emotionally and economically potentials.
EMBODI is designed to address these issues by introducing
these young men to a variety of academic, cultural and
personal activities and events that will increase their
knowledge and awareness of issues affecting young men today.
It is also designed to help develop skills that can be used
to reach their fullest potentials.
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