Monday, December 21, 2009

WEEN Featured on Black Entertainment Television

The Women in Entertainment Empowerment Network (WEEN) joins Black Entertainment Television for a appropriate appearance committed to anatomy angel on “106 & Park” Thursday, July 30, 2009.

The appearance will affection celebrities and experts who will bare the could cause and consecutive physical, affecting and cerebral appulse anatomy angel accept on teens. Lauren Lake, a nationally accustomed anatomy angel able and WEEN Board Member, will be featured on the show.

WEEN will afford ablaze on amazing statistics pertaining to adolescence and anatomy image, animate all admirers to become WEEN associates and allure the admirers to crop the next footfall and participate in WEEN's National Empowerment Tour, advantaged "I AM WEEN," in cities throughout the United States.

The “I AM WEEN” National Empowerment Tour began as a 24-month, pilot affairs in New York City. The bout creates an alternate mentorship and educational affairs for adolescent women to appoint in chat and accept advice alarming change in their communities and circadian lives. The affairs is chargeless and offers adolescent women the befalling to participate in an intimate, ‘straight talk’ ambiance with arch celebrities and hometown heroes.

In America, 42% of girls in the aboriginal through third grades ambition to be thinner and added than 7 actor girls and women attempt with bistro disorders, states The National Eating Disorders Association. Programs targeting adolescence are bare now added than ever.

"As we've catholic the United States for the “I AM WEEN” tour, we accept been abashed by the abridgement of self-esteem that exists a allotment of boyhood women. Regardless of socio-economic cachet or geographic location, adolescent humans are arrant out for love, advice and support," states WEEN Chair, Valeisha Butterfield. "At WEEN, it is our assignment to crop aback albatross and empower adolescent women to ability their abounding potential. We are aflame and ashamed by the befalling to accompany BET's “106 & Park” for this groundbreaking episode. This is one of abounding accomplish WEEN is demography to accomplish a absolute aberration in the lives of women everywhere."

WEEN aswell appearance a account radio show; WEEN Radio's "The Pink Suite" every Tuesday night at 9 p.m. EST. On July 28, the show's affair was "Get Me Bodied" and served as an addition to the 106 & Park episode. Terrence J, co-host of “106 & Park”, abutting “The Pink Suite” for this appropriate broadcast. This adventure is accessible at blogtalkradio.com/weenthepinksuite.

“WEEN represents the best of the ball industry and challenges anniversary of us to accord back. We’ve had the advantage to participate as a coach in WEEN’s empowerment programs for men and women over the endure two years. It’s alarming to apperceive that they accept backward on advance and we acceptable them with accessible accoutrements to 106 this week,” assert Rocsi and Terrence J, co-hosts of BET’s “106 & Park”.

Women in Entertainment Empowerment Network (WEEN)
Founded in 2007, the Women in Entertainment Empowerment Network is a common affiliation of women, all ages and races, committed to supporting, announcement and arresting the balanced, absolute assuming of women in ball and society. Led by Chair Valeisha Butterfield and co-founders Kristi Henderson, Lauren Lake and Sabrina Thompson, WEEN provides entertainment-based, educational programs for its all-around constituents. For added advice and to accompany WEEN, go to www.weenonline.org.

Contact Information:
PR@weenonline.org

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