Job training for 17 at-risk girls in San Francisco

Employment AND Training

Sisters Rising provides low-income young women with both a livable income and an environment that is supportive and personally transformative. Young women who have endured multiple traumas including long periods of incarceration, loss of their children while they were in the system, poverty, violence, drug addiction and the incarceration of a parent do not just need a job — they need to believe that they can make it in the "above ground" economy.

The 17 Sisters Rising interns work four hours a day, four days a week — during the hours that have the highest incidence of arrest of female sex workers and drug dealers. Sisters Rising effectively competes with the street economy by providing respectable wages and benefits, job training, child care, peer support, housing assistance and leadership opportunities. The part-time nature of the job and its regular income allow the young women in Sisters Rising to return to or stay in school. Sisters Rising demonstrates to young women and girls from the streets and the juvenile justice system that another way is, in fact, possible!

These young women develop practical workplace and leadership skills, while building their resumes and lists of references. They learn about self-care, healthy lifestyles and sisterhood along with basic computer and writing skills.  Our Mock Interview Day is just one example of job training that is practical as well as transformative.  Included in this report you will find photos of our most recent Mock Interview Day.  Enjoy!

Our mission is to empower and inspire young women who have been involved with the juvenile justice system and/or the underg