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From:TheBahamasWeekly.com Local
Therena Cunningham, Managing Director of S.T.R.A.W. Inc.™ Center for Young Women© participated as a Guest Presenter in the recent Regional Conference hosted by the Pan American Development Foundation (PADF) held in Paramaribo, Suriname during the week of Sunday 11 June – Thursday 15 June 2017. Since 2013, the Resistance and Prevention Program (RAPP) has been under implementation in Trinidad & Tobago, Bahamas and Suriname with the generous support of the United States State Department’s Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs Bureau (INL) under the Caribbean Basin Security Initiative (CBSI). The Regional Conference was attended by approximately 50 people (including teachers, police officers, government staff and community leaders) from countries in the region such as Jamaica, Trinidad, Guyana, The Bahamas, United States, Dominican Republic and Suriname.
The conference topics included dialogue concerning school-based violence, community policing, positive youth development, recommendation to increase public safety, the necessity of youth dialogues to bring together law enforcement agencies and at-risk youth. As a Conference Keynote Presenter, Ms. Cunningham expounded on the work that S.T.R.A.W. Inc. ™ Center for Young Women© is doing in the Bahamas since 2004 to engage and advocate for at-risk adolescent girls and teen girls throughout New Providence and The Bahamas with the implementation of dynamic evidence-based prevention and intervention programming activities. S.T.R.A.W. Inc.™ Center for Young Women© is a community based NGO which engages and develops prevention and intervention programming activities and offers various services which enrich the lives of at-risk girls through education, counseling and advocacy.
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