NewFlexhoops FALL 2010 Trips- Events

Flex Your Esteem Panel Series:Social Media and Video Images and their impact on Young Ladies This Event Response was amazing. Young Ladies of All Ages took part in an open panel and were able to share some of the struggles with social media and even how a few had been victims of cyber bullying. YOuth were educated on the misuse of Music Videos and their negative impact on the images of women on the whole. Our Featured Panelists were: Thomasina Sands (Corrections and Officer of 100 Blacks In Law Enforcement), Sherri Hollis (Entrepeneur and Officer of Talitha Cumi-Daughters Rise Up), Melcina Felix (NewFlex Financial Advisor, Pastor and Youth Mentor), Delia Newson (President of New Yorks Auto Club: Cadillac Ladies, NewFlex Advisor, and Teacher), Jeffrey Donovan (Professor of Computers, Entrepeneur and Founder of GOAL Net Inc.), Paulette O'neil (Youth Advocate). The audience was filled with various community activists and leaders form within the sports arena and those who cared about the youth. Benyamin Bridges and Mrs. Bridges of "Parents Against Teen Violence" was present and shared some wonderful insight. Abdul Qadaar also a NewFlex Board member and business owner, SOAQ Enterprises Inc. lent a supportive voice to some of the parents who had been overwhelmed with the impact on their young teens. Coaches Seth Goodman from Monroe College (also a NewFlex Board Member) and Bryan Williams (Westchester Hoopers) came out to share with the youth!

Next Panel will be taking place in February "Pants Down and Poppin" look for NewFlex in some of the Various schools in the coming months.