ASET Society Perfected Black Womanhood Training

The Black male and female youth are a necessary cornerstone or building block in maintaining a healthy structure and functioning of the Black family, community and society at large. As such the proper performance of the role of Black youth in the family, in the schools and in the community is an essential ingredient in the viability and preservation of quality and health future for the African American community. However, the problems experienced by Black youth (i.e. anger, low self-regard, disrespect, violence, hopelessness, criminality, substance abuse, etc.) and the lack of services designed to mediate these conditions not only place and define Black youth dangerously "at-risk" of educational failure, but they also foretell of the increasing problems and future devastation for society at large. To help counter these negative effects impacting our youth, the Achievement, Spirituality, Excellence and Tradition (ASET) Society Perfected Black Womanhood Training and Development Project was developed as an attempt to intentionally and overtly influence the values and moral character of young Black females.

Project Mission:
The sole and singular mission of the ASET training program is to develop competent, confident and conscious African American women. Through a process of introducing to these young women the qualities, attributes, attitudes and responsibilities of African and African-American women of excellence, the ASET project stimulates in their character the desire to become high achievers and the best at whatever they do. In so doing, the ASET process aims at developing in each young woman:
1. something which they do exceptionally well (competence)
2. a belief that whatever the task, they can be successful (confidence)
3. an awareness of the historical greatness of African and African-American women and their personal responsibility to the future continuation of that greatness (consciousness)

The ASET program is designed to coincide with an academic school year. Each level of training lasts approximately seven months, with one two-hour training session occurring weekly. Each training session is designed to reinforce the development of positive Black womanhood, and is governed by written training procedures.

Institutions wishing to establish an ASET project can do so by contacting:
The Institute for the Advanced Study of Black Family Life and Culture
Attn: Director of Education and Training
1012 Linden St.
Oakland, Ca 94607
Phone: (510) 836-3245
Fax; (510) 836-3248
Email: lgoddard@iasbflc.org