The Brooklyn Young Mothers’ Collective (BYMC) has announced the creation of the Septima Poinsette Clark Law Center, whose main mission is to provide legal services and information to pregnant and parenting teens in Brooklyn.
The Center will kick off its series of seminars on August 5 from 4 to 6 p.m. with Legal and Personal Issues in Violence in Dating Relationships at the First Unitarian Congregational Society, 50 Monroe Place in Brooklyn Heights.
Septima Poinsette Clark was an educator and civil rights activist who strove to teach her students how to act collectively and protect their rights as citizens.
The advent of the Septima Poinsette Clark Law Center will forward the Brooklyn Young Mothers’ Collective (BYMC) mission by educating Brooklyn’s pregnant and parenting teens through free monthly community seminars. And provide low-income young mothers with the vision to plan and the tools to build their future.
For additional information call the director CJ Masimore at 646-479-4505; you may also visit their web site at www.bymcinc.org.