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This focus area is crucial to Mississippi Black girls and women. As elsewhere, Black girls face a higher rate of  detention or imprisonment in youth prisons. Calls for the abolishment of youth prisons are on the rise in the United States, and our project adopts community-based approaches to ensure Black girls receive meaningful and equitable access to justice.

Black girls and women in America face a higher risk of housing discrimination in the form of unfair eviction. It is also not uncommon for Black women to live in deplorable housing conditions that are hazardous to their health. We partner with the National Alliance to End Homelessness [a non-partisan organization committed to preventing and ending homelessness in the United States] to ensure the reduction or elimination of homelessness of Black women and girls.

Black women continue to experience high incidences of human trafficking and commercial sexual exploitation, and intimate partner violence (IPV). This project partners with the Mississippi Coalition Against Sexual Assault to ensure that it  promotes community awareness and pursues justice for victims. We also partner with victim counselors to help survivors on the path to healing. Through our partners, we will seek equitable and meaningful representation for sexual assault and exploitation victims.