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This brief, A Fair Chance: Improving Outcomes and Reducing Barriers to Success and Opportunity for Girls, Young Women, Transgender Young Women, and Gender Non-conforming Youth of Color in DC, aims to spark dialogue and spur action in communities and at the local government level to improve health, educational and economic outcomes for girls, young women, transgender young women, gender non-conforming youth of color, and their families.
For girls, young women, transgender young women, and gender non-conforming youth of color in the District, there is a severe gap between their lived experiences, the resources and supports available to them and what it will really take to help them achieve long-term economic security, and academic and career success. In most instances, on every social indicator of well-being, from poverty to health to violence, girls, young women, and gender non-conforming girls in the District rank low or last.