Pace Center for Girls, Lee

How SWEET is this? Christine and her daughter dropped by from Troop 582 of the Girl Scouts of Gulfcoast Florida, Inc. to shower our girls with 140 boxes of Girl Scout cookies! Needless to say, we had some happy faces when they went home with cookies in hand.

Thank you California Closets of Southwest Florida for committing as a Fashionista Sponsor and fashion creator to ultimately benefit our girls. We can't wait to see where your team's creativity takes us this year!

This is what girls supporting girls looks like. As a student at Florida SouthWestern Collegiate High School, Maria Isabella Uncu chose Pace Lee for her high school community service project. With the help of her Key Club, local Kiwanis International club plus family and friends, she restocked our resource center with hygiene products that will last for quite a while. Thank you, Isa, for thinking of our girls!!

Many thanks to Seminole Casino Hotel Immokalee for helping us change the world through the fun of the Funky Fashion Show! This is an event that showcases the wide variety of talent and creativity living in SWFL. Follow this link to get your tickets and join the Casino in celebrating our girls: https://leefunkyfashion.givesmart.com

Our Pace girls recently enjoyed a special bowling field trip as a reward for their perfect attendance. Their commitment to showing up, staying engaged, and making education a priority is something worth recognizing.

At Pace, we know that attendance is about more than being present. It's about building consistency and responsibility for the future. We are so proud of these girls for their dedication and the positive choices they make every day.

Congratulations to our perfect attendance achievers! We hope you had a fantastic time making memories together and celebrating your success.

We're hiring!
Pace Lee is seeking a compassionate, licensed Part Time Reach Therapist to join our team and help transform the lives of girls and young women in Lee County.

This position provides counseling and therapeutic support to girls and families through our Reach program, helping them build resilience, overcome challenges, and achieve their goals. If you're passionate about mental health, trauma informed care, and empowering girls to reach their full potential, we'd love to hear from you.

Learn more and apply today: https://www.pacecenter.org/careers/

For our quarterly volunteerism project in Spirited Girls, students worked together to make no-sew fleece blankets to donate to Valerie's House. Despite the challenges the girls faced while learning something new, they came together to help each other and share what they were learning about how to make the blankets more beautiful.

LuLu wrote, "By creating these blankets that provide comfort and warmth, I was able to invest in the future by helping individuals feel safe and cared for during difficult times. This project also showed the importance of creating partnership because everyone worked together to make donations that could positively impact others in the community. The experience taught me to act with integrity and positive intent by putting time and effort into something that would bring comfort to people I may never meet. I learned that even small acts of kindness can make a lasting difference."

And that's one small example of how Pace is changing the world!

A few clouds couldn't dampen our spirits as the Pace Lee staff enjoyed a day on the water with Adventures in Paradise Cruises & Crew before the summer semester started. Thanks to Captain Art and crew for making sure the trip refreshed our team so we could hit the ground running when the girls returned.

Many thanks to Convergint for selecting Pace Lee for the company-wide Social Responsibility Day! The list of projects the local team completed included:

• Moving all plants and furniture to pressure wash the back patio
• Installing and mulching a new butterfly garden
• Grading an area for a future picnic area, adding mulch and plants
• Cleaning out gutters
• Replacing ceiling lights, fixing door handles, touching up paint, mounting 28 classroom bulletin board strips
• Assembling a storage cabinet
• Removing a large decal mural from the wall
• Mounting building numbers

Know that we appreciate the help and are proud to have partners like you helping us support our girls!

Pace -Lee is proud to stand with United Way of Lee, Hendry, and Glades in supporting our community when it matters most. Now more than ever, your support helps sustain critical programs such as our Transition Program that supports girls once they leave the security of our center....a full-time counselor who regularly checks on them, encourages them through challenges and patiently guides them when there may be doubts in a new environment. Mental health support at its finest!

There are a million reasons to give, and countless lives depending on it. Will you be one in a million? Give today: UnitedWayLee.org/Donate