Youth prevention
Belonging before behavior
For girls and young women navigating gangs, unsafe relationships, early motherhood, limited exposure, and the need to belong.
Born from the memoir Homegirl
The story gets us in the room.
The work moves us forward.
Founded by Takisha “Tai” Jernagin, Homegirls Anonymous is a peer-rooted curriculum for women and girls ready to tell the truth, break a pattern, and make the next reachable move.
The book is the beginning.
Why this exists
Belonging is powerful.
Direction decides what it builds.
A gang can offer belonging before a school, employer, or program learns a young woman’s name. Coming home from custody can mean facing a hundred unwritten rules without one trusted person to explain them.
Homegirls Anonymous starts there: with credible people, honest conversation, practical tools, and a village that points toward life.
Four pathways, one method
Built for the rooms where people get lost.
Adaptable for community circles, classrooms, correctional settings, reentry programs, and staff development.
Reentry
Coming home is a system
For women returning from custody who need practical preparation for identification, work, education, family, transportation, technology, and supervision.
Peer leadership
Lived experience with structure
For credible messengers ready to turn personal history into ethical, bounded, repeatable service.
Institutions
Make the path reachable
For schools, employers, nonprofits, and justice programs examining the distance between what they offer and what participants can actually access.
The Homegirls Anonymous method
The 12 Moves. No performance.
Twelve moves, each one learned the hard way and marked in the memoir where it happened. The book gives them to you the way she got them; the circle gives them to you in order.
Tell the truth about where you are
No performance. No minimizing. Name the present before planning the future.
What I Know — The PrayerName what had you
Identify the person, pattern, substance, fear, or need that kept making decisions for you.
What I Know — Fourteen and TwentyChoose the next reachable move
A whole new life is too large for one day. Choose the next action you can finish.
What I Know — Nobody Is Coming to Save YouRead the red flags
Warnings are information. Learn to recognize danger before it becomes familiar again.
What I Know — Red Flags Are Not a CarnivalOwn your part without becoming your worst act
Accountability is honest. Shame says the worst thing you did is all you are.
What I Know — The Two OptionsBreak the pattern before you pass it on
You did not choose everything handed to you. You can choose what leaves your hands.
What I Know — The CurseA prayer for course correction
“God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom to know the difference.”
The past is real. So is the next decision.
— The Serenity Prayer, commonly attributed to Reinhold NiebuhrIn development
Book. Curriculum. Circles. Training.
Homegirls Anonymous will launch alongside Homegirl. The first curriculum is being shaped for pilot partners serving girls, women, returning citizens, and the professionals responsible for their access.
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