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EGACY Yesterday. Today. Tomorrow.
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Richmond & Hampton Roads
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EYPC gives back to the community it services Empowering Youth for Positive Change (EYPC), an agency that provides intensive in-home and therapeutic day treatment services, as well as mental health skill building, outpatient therapy and mentoring recently held its first ‘CEO Mommy Makeover’ where the mental health agency gave back to the mothers they service. Twelve moms from Richmond and the Northern Neck received a
makeover that included hair, makeup, a new outfit and a night on the town with EYPC CEO Towanda Darden. “It’s hard being a single mom,” said Darden. “I know when I was a single mom of one if was hard so I can only imagine what it feels like to have four, five, six, seven or even eight kids to provide for.” Darden says she was excited to “love on” the moms that receive
services from EYPC. “When I came up with the idea, I was thinking of women that are single and raising children alone. The reality is if you are a single mom when do you have time to love on yourself? I wanted these moms to feel like a CEO because in actuality, every mom is the CEO of her family,” said Darden. After a photo shoot with celebrity photographer Virgil Odell, the
moms were escorted to a limo and chauffeured to Morton’s Steakhouse where they shared dinner and conversation with Darden. Mothers shared the adversities they experienced raising their children, how they overcame those challenges and what motherhood means to them. Mia Johnson, one of the moms that participated in the event, has four
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