Equity Initiative

🔥🍔 OUT-OF-SCHOOL COOKOUT🌭🎉

Today, our teens rolled up their sleeves and learned real-life cooking skills by grilling burgers and hot dogs and working together as a team! 👨🏽‍🍳👩🏾‍🍳

As we celebrated the end of the school year, we also took time to honor THREE incredible graduates who have been part of Equity Initiative, Inc. 🎓✨

Your journey, growth, resilience, and leadership have inspired us all. We are beyond proud of you and cannot wait to see what’s next! 🌟

Thank you to everyone who continues to support our youth and our mission to create safe spaces, opportunities, and experiences that empower the next generation. ❤️

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💥SkillBuilders: Teen Pavilion Tuesdays! 💥

Today, Equity Initiative wrapped up Teen Pavilion Tuesday at the Advanced Learning Library! 🎬

Our teens tapped into their creativity during a fun and challenging “Bad Art” activity 🎨😂. They were given three unique prompts and encouraged to create art; no pressure, no perfection, just imagination and self-expression!

Thank you to the Wichita Public Library for your continued partnership and for providing a space where our youth can explore, create, and grow! 🧠

Today in our SkillBuilders Program, we took a different approach to learning about unconscious biases! 🍝

Through our activity, “Melting Pot”, participants explored how we all carry assumptions about what “belongs” and what doesn’t.

Then we flipped the script.

Together, we created spaghetti, showing that when different ingredients come together, something powerful happens.

The lesson was simple:🤌🏾
diversity isn’t a problem to fix, it’s a strength to build on.

Moments like these are what SkillBuilders is all about, creating space for growth, reflection, and real-life connection.

🌱 SkillBuilders 🌱🌍

Today in our SkillBuilders program, we celebrated Earth Day early with a therapeutic activity!

To wrap up the night, we made and enjoyed some delicious dirt cup parfaits!!
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Planting seeds in our youth, one session at a time. 🌼

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