Northeast Florida Resources: Empowering Women to Lead
The number of women in major political positions is disproportionately low in the United States. They make up around 19 percent of all members of congress and less than 25 percent of all state legislatures. In spite of this, Jacksonville has seen success in women becoming leaders. Northeast Florida has seen multiple women win municipal elections, engage in activism, and campaign for elected office. In 2017, women won all of the open elected positions in Jacksonville Beach and
Northeast Florida Resources: At-Risk Youth
Northeast Florida has a vast amount of organizations working to engage at-risk youth in the community through education, intervention, and community outreach. GlobalJax is able to work with many of these organizations to provide innovative ideas for participants of our international programs. Many of our participants want to learn how to engage and protect youth in their communities and provide better services so that they can become happy healthy members of society. These le
Northeast Florida Resources: Gender Based Violence
The city of Jacksonville was an early leader in combating gender based violence. As the movement gained national momentum Duval County was one of the first to respond. In 1976, the Hubbard House was founded as the first shelter in Florida specifically for victims of domestic abuse. Progress continued and in the 1980's Jacksonville inaugurated the Domestic Violence Intervention Project. This project combined efforts between the State Attorney’s Office, the Fourth Judicial Circ
