Signature Workshops
SOAR will always try to facilitate workshops according to the vendors and their participants needs as long as the vendors wishes do not jeopardize the integrity of SOAR workshops.
These workshop series empowers individuals who grapple with long term issues which stem from domestic violence, gender identity, homelessness, terminal illness or teenage motherhood. It is SOAR’s purpose to create a surge of power within the workshop circle that benefits not only the individual, but also impacts their family members and their community.
My Daughter's Power Circle Retreat
SOAR’s My Daughter’s Power Circle Yearly Retreat the culminating activity of the six and eight-week workshops will take place yearly during the month of October for 20 disconnected, low income, African American women between the ages of 18 and 26 years old who are out of work, out of school, domestic violence survivors, returning citizens, teen moms or college bound who are without support and reside in the Washington, D.C., Baltimore, Maryland metropolitan areas.
SOAR’s Writing for Healing Workshops
for young women participating in alternative education programs
SOAR’s Writing for Healing Workshops for young women participating in alternative education programs are given strategies to debunk myths around writing and reading that have impacted their academic success. Introduced to SOAR’s writing training wheels, students learn the value of language and begin to see how language operates as a layered text through its construction i.e. the use of the poem or prose as a vehicle of expression.
SOAR’s Writing for Healing Workshops
SOAR’s Writing for Healing Workshops for incarcerated and returning citizens. The increased rate of recidivism is directly linked to insufficient educational and mental health tools. Using SOAR’s Writing for Healing workshop model to assist incarcerated youth will involve a two-prong approach that includes attacking literacy issues by using SOAR’s workbook along with its Writing for Healing curriculum.
SOAR’s Writing for Healing Workshops
SOAR’s Writing for Healing Workshops for those who have aged out of the foster care system For young women who are home insecure and undereducated, SOAR’s goal is to connect disconnected young women, who complete SOAR’s six-week workshop, to SOAR’s Mother Mentors during SOAR’s yearly retreat.