WLP Support Campaign

Dear WLP Supporter:

Once again, due to fiscal and political reasons, WLP is in jeopardy of being shut down and we need your help.

When you get a chance could you please send a one-two line email of support with the subject line: "Why WLP is Important to the Community" or "What WLP Means to Me" to the following individuals?

EHalpert-Schilt@css.lacounty.gov

RToma@css.lacounty.gov

Your email can be as a simple as "WLP means giving young girls of color a voice in a climate where there a few gender justice programs expressly for girls of color."

"WLP means access to college, social justice and leadership skills"

Please include your affiliation in your signature.

Thanks,

Sikivu Hutchinson, Founder

WLP & Black Women for Wellness

WLP December Events:

12/9: HIV/AIDS & Youth of Color trainings 

12/12: School climate facilitation

12/15: Guest speaker: Cheryl Dorsey, Author/Activist & LAPD whistleblower

12/16: Guest speaker: Miani Giron, WLP 2012, Syracuse University, 2016

What does WLP Mean to Jamion Allen ? It saddens me that I would even have to explain,not once but for the third time this year. This program is my heart i've had so many opportunities because WLP was active program during my junior and senior years of attending Washington Prep High School. Myself and girls before and after me have been fighting to keep our program for the last two and a half years and it's just not fair. I have worked along side my mentor Ms. Sikivu Hutchinson for the past 3 years and I've created an open SAFE space for girls of color who have no one to guide them , or who have answers for questions that they fear to ask. We are breaking down barriers left and right. Taking this program is harmful to us and to our community. This is coming from someone who has given their all for this program.  -- Jamion Allen, WLP 2013

WLP presents: Author/Activist & LAPD Whistleblower Cheryl Dorsey

On December 15, 2014, WLP Gardena will feature author, activist and retired LAPD sergeant Cheryl Dorsey in an illuminating discussion about her career and work as an outspoken woman of color in the male-dominated culture of the LAPD.  Ms. Dorsey's acclaimed book Black and Blue: The Creation of a Manifesto chronicles her fight against racism, sexism and the Good Old Boy's club in the Los Angeles Police Department. She writes, "LAPD’s problems and internal struggles, which precipitated the creation of the Christopher Commission in 1991, are the same issues facing the department in 2013; they’re cultural and systemic. The department crafts an image of any officer who complains in such a way that makes that officer appear distasteful, and therefore anything that they say or do is rejected. However, I am an honorably retired police sergeant who's willing to expose the department's two-tiered system of discipline and the manner in which the LAPD condones acts of sexism, racism, and reverse racism."