Helping High Risk Teenage Girls

Kathi Elliott, Gwen's Girls

Posted

Feb 12, 2019

42% of girls in the US now live in low-income families & one in five, below the poverty line,,making these girls at higher risk for violence, family dysfunction, abuse, teen pregnancy, & academic failure, among other things, according to Gwen’s Girls CEO Kathi Elliott, Sheila Hyland hosts at the Heinz History Center in Pittsburgh. GWENSGIRLS.ORG

Hosted by: Sheila Hyland Produced by: Keystone Newsmakers Team

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