The Bernice Foundation's 2021 Strategic Initiatives
The Bernice Foundation’s (TBF) Initiatives reflect the founder’s passion for and commitment to
- Mental Wellbeing
- Personal Development
- Motivation
- Support
- Education
- Inequality
- Human Trafficking
Beginning in January of 2022, The TBF will hold it’s first event, a mental wellbeing summit. Throughout the year, with your support we will begin organizing events around the country that address these initiatives. Yes, they are big, but as our founders says, “Dream Big or stay at home”.
URAWARRIOR APP
The Lifeline is a free, confidential crisis service that is available to everyone 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The Lifeline connects people to the nearest crisis center in the Lifeline national network. These centers provide crisis counseling and mThe app is a social networking app for mental health support. It is a mental wellness app that helps you deal with your challenges, struggles and difficulties so you can express yourself without shame or stigma to help you get by. Our Movement is to “Remove the Stigma” of mental health because You are Not Alone and We’re in this Together. The Founder, Bershan Shaw, developed this app so others can have a place to express themselves without being bullied, trolled or feeling embarrassed. This app will take you through the four pillars of support to heal you: Motivation, Personal Development, Self-Improvement & Support. We want to get 100,000 youth from ages 14 thru 35 years old signed up for them to get the help they need at their fingertips when they need it. We are a community here to support and help one person at a time.
WARRIOR DAY OF PAMPERING
When you feel better, you look better. When you take control of your health from the inside out you obtain your desired outcomes. We will have a day of pampering and a career day of helping at-risk young adults from the age of 18 to 22 put themselves in a position to become productive members of society. At this age in their life, this is a crucial time to get the support, motivation and encouragement that is needed to help them make it and stay on track toward their future goals. It will be a day of professional coaching, therapy, beauty image makers, hair stylist, and role models providing services, giving support, and providing inspiration to get these young adults started on goal attainment. We will have a tracking system for six months staying connected to the participants providing support and resources needed to accomplish their identified goals.
URAWARRIOR STEM OUTLOOK
We want to work with at-risk communities and youth to learn about technology and learn how to grow and develop their own start up. Technology is now growing at a rapid rate and individuals need to learn and establish skills relative to this fast-growing industry if they want to be on the forefront of technological advances. We want at-risk individuals and youth from prison, juvenile detention, high schools and from underprivileged neighborhoods to learn and develop a skill set relative to starting a business, growing a business, technology, programming, and marketing.
WARRIOR WOMAN WINNING PROGRAM
What better way to help women who are going through treatment and dealing with the stressors of breast cancer than to have a Warrior Woman Winning support team for healthy eating and living. It’s a known fact and statistics show that those who exercise and eat right have a better chance of survival, but many people don’t know that or do that. Most women who battle this disease keep doing the same non-productive things repeatedly but it’s time to stop that and change the way you eat, and live. We offer support groups, motivational talks, meditation sessions online and offline, coaching sessions, nutrition plans, online and offline fitness sessions. We want to help you with a healthy mind, body, and soul.
Unstoppable Warrior Awards Gala
We want to work with at-risk communities and youth to learn about technology and learn how to grow and develop their own start up. Technology is now growing at a rapid rate and individuals need to learn and establish skills relative to this fast-growing industry if they want to be on the forefront of technological advances. We want at-risk individuals and youth from prison, juvenile detention, high schools and from underprivileged neighborhoods to learn and develop a skill set relative to starting a business, growing a business, technology, programming, and marketing.
WARRIOR MENTAL HEALTH FITNESS & FUN DAY
We want to work with at-risk communities and youth to learn about technology and learn how to grow and develop their own start up. Technology is now growing at a rapid rate and individuals need to learn and establish skills relative to this fast-growing industry if they want to be on the forefront of technological advances. We want at-risk individuals and youth from prison, juvenile detention, high schools and from underprivileged neighborhoods to learn and develop a skill set relative to starting a business, growing a business, technology, programming, and marketing.
AIM
Program for women who have experienced Sex Trafficking. Aspire, Inspire & Motivate women to learn to love themselves and be their best self. It’s a day of red for love. This program will gather therapists, coaches, experts, relationship coaches, and self-love coaches for a day of empowerment to self-love. We will provide guided work activities, self-love projects, and resources for community re-integration. It will be online and offline. The bottom of this initiative is that YOU ARE ENOUGH
SEX TALK
This is our program for underaged young teenage girls to young adults who have been through sex trafficking, homelessness, emotional and physical abuse as runaways or kidnapped in the streets. Our LOVE YOURSELF DAY will bring one hundred women who are experts, coaches, and counselors together for a day of unity, trust, uplifting, knowledge sharing, and respect. The event is held at a spa or bed and breakfast. During the event, the ladies will partake in massages, mani & pedicures, work with image and hair consultants, all to rejuvenate themselves, get self-care and self-love. Sessions will include teaching how to teach young women across the country to love themselves. What it means to support each other. How to form partnerships and build coalitions and alliances. Training will be enhanced with continuous support, webinars, books, and worksheets, small group discussions, and more. The spa day kicks off the one-year training cohort, which also includes coaching, working with coaches, and experts on the mental health app URAWARRIOR to learn about personal development, support, and self-improvement
JUMPSTART
Many social inequities are happening around the world and our founder, Bershan Shaw, wants to be at the forefront of changing the negatives to positives. In America, there is harsh racism and a disproportionate number of youths who are not getting the proper education. They are being left out of industries like medical cannabis and technology and are more likely to be sentenced to jail at a higher rate than their Caucasian counterparts. We want to have a voice to change that. The Bernice Foundation has a goal of providing 200 scholarships each year to assist with tuition for education, and programs that address equal and fair rights. Our goal is to bring awareness to unconscious bias that affects at-risk children and young adults, because of their background, social class, economic status, ethnicity. Our Jumpstart program is an after-school program, that will train and educate youths in civil rights, freedom, self-esteem, confidence, speaking, and first impressions. The training sessions provided will be focused on the fields of law and the justice system, business, and technology. We know that information is power and that knowing what to do with the information is individual power, which leads to community power. Children in high risk communities need not only information, they need mentors, counselors, and coaches who care about them and want them to succeed. People who know that this type of training is vital to their success. We pledge to bring in 10,000 kids into our jumpstart program. The program will require a one-year commitment from each student, coach, mentor, and counselor. One year to help our youths learn, grow, heal, gain confidence, help, and support for a better tomorrow.
UPLIFT VETERANS
Uplift Veterans is our group program to give Veterans a platform to express themselves. We want to rally veterans all around America, to get them to speak up, talk about the issues they are facing, and identify how to address their specific issues with coaching, counseling, and therapy. There is no greater cause than helping a Veteran get back into a positive and productive life. We will have online weekly training and coaching for a year to support, train, teach and educate. The coaching & training will identify their mental state, and what type of assistance is needed, and offer both group and one on one coaching, mentoring, counseling, and training. The Bernice Foundations wants Veterans to share their stories, and we want to take those stories and produce books for each Vet. So the world can understand and support the men and women who have given so much to this country and its citizens. This program is aimed at uplifting, empowering, and supporting our Vets.
“To impact 1 million people in communities across America to remove the stigma and shame associated with mental wellness.”
