Warden Millicent Newton-Embry speaks to students about making the right choices in their lives. Warden Embry truly enjoys meeting young people and encouraging them to make their own stories. S.A.L.S.A. Group meets with . . . Warden Millicent Newton-Embry of Mabel Bassett Correctional Center.  She is a wife, mother and a child of god.  As a youth, Mrs. Embry enjoyed reading, cooking, singing, playing the piano and being a member of the Girl Scouts.  In high school, she was in the air force R.O.T.C., enjoyed the choir and was on the honor roll.  Among her professional experiences is her work as a police officer and as a probation officer. She is a choir member and attends St. John Missionary  Church in Oklahoma City.                                  Let's  S A L S A ........               S.A.L.S.A. - Self-Awareness Leads to Success and Achievement, is a mentoring program designed to provide young girls between the ages of 8-15 years of age moral and social skill sets that can weave into their everday interaction with friends, family, teachers, and community which will enable them to make successful passage into womanhood.         The program focuses on the six building blocks for life--Respect, Attitude, Responsibility, Family, Health and Sisterhood. These blocks are inseparable parts of a complete attitude that will help them to learn to think critically so that they can evaluate their own decisions.  The objective of the program is to raise a level of character awareness by providing functional methods to develop personal integrity, enhance positive identities and improve achievement.      For more information email us at  okcsisterfriends@yahoo.com .     "Helping Young Girls Make A Successful Passage into Womanhood"

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	Community Events August 2006   19th - Greater OKC Urban League Free Health Fair Sisterfriends participated in free fealth fair at the Urban Leagues's  annnual Family Fun fest. The festival gives OKC citizens the opportunity to enjoy a weekend of family entertainment and youth activities in a safe environment.  The health fair booth offers distribution of health related informational brochures on Domestic Violence, free clinics for mammograms, AIDS and testing facilities, WIC centers, along with pre-testing and prescreening for blood pressure, diabetes and cholesterol. Urban League Funfest 2006