Pace Center for Girls of Manatee County

The mission of the Pace is to provide girls and young women an opportunity for a better future through education, counseling, training, and advocacy. Pace values all girls and young women, believing each one deserves an opportunity to find her voice, achieve her potential, and celebrate a life defined by responsibility, dignity, serenity, and grace.

The holistic, gender-specific, strength-based, and trauma-informed Pace program model addresses the needs of girls and has garnered recognition nationally as one of the most effective programs in the country for keeping girls from entering the juvenile justice system. Girls who attend school at Pace do so voluntarily and have made a decision to change their lives. At Pace, we meet each girl where she is, lovingly wrap our arms around her, and help her take the next step. Pace girls are tomorrow’s workforce, community members and the next generation of mothers.