|
Footsteps 2 Success
The Goals of Footsteps 2 Success, INC., are:
1) To enrich the individual experience of youth at risk of negative behavior by providing them mentoring services. 2) To encourage youth to take the necessary steps to succeed educationally. 3) To provide youth that are at risk of dropping out of school with mentors who will inspire and increase motivation skills. 4) To decrease the amount of Human Sex Trafficking in the state by partnering with Law Enforcement Agencies, nonprofits, Attorney General's Office, and other stakeholders in the community. 5) To provide the resources and clinical intervention needed to youth that have been exposed or are at risk. 6) To provide women with a mental illness the opportunity to live independently. |
Footsteps 2 Success, Inc. provides a renewal of the mind, body and spirit, by building confidence, character, life skills, reintegration, and health and wellness.
"In order to reach them, we have to teach them!"
|
Footsteps 2 Success, Inc. provides young ladies and women with the resources necessary to become leaders and entrepreneurs in the community. At Footsteps 2 Success, Inc., we will continue encourage each individual by providing positive guidance, motivation, and necessary resources needed to help them transition into the community effectively.
|
Meet Founder/ Director
|
Our History
|
Footsteps 2 Success, Inc., was founded by Dr. Leigh Hicks in 2010, due to the need for young ladies that were at risk in the community as well as incarcerated with low self-esteem. These young ladies not only suffered from low self-esteem, but they were on alcohol and drugs, were sexually abused, human sex trafficking victims, and in dating violence relationships. The goal was to create a pageant that would promote positive self-esteem in young ladies ages 12 to 18 and reward them with a scholarship to go to college once they graduated. Dr. Hicks begin doing these pageant back in 2006 at the South Carolina Department of Juvenile Justice for female offenders and then went on to assess the needs in the community and develop the Miss Footsteps 2 Success Pageant.
In November 2018, Dr. Hicks opened her 1st Transition Home for homeless women. It was a great accomplishment for Dr. Hicks after being homeless her self in May of 2017. Dr. Hicks is always accepting individuals for her Transition home and hopes to open up many more around the state as homelessness is a prominent issue that exist throughout South Carolina. |
