Welcome to Pace Hillsborough
About Pace Hillsborough
Pace Center for Girls in Hillsborough County has been serving the community since 1998. Our opening came during a year of mass expansion for Pace, Inc. whereas five Pace centers – Hillsborough, Alachua, Collier, Pinellas, and Treasure Coast - opened throughout the state that year. Pace Hillsborough opened its doors in Tampa serving 40 girls and, with community and state support, grew to serve more than 2,100 girls to date with their academic and social service needs.
We partner with a variety of community agencies including USF, DACCO, the Arts Council and Community Mental Health, to name a few, to provide our girls with a multitude of community resources to best meet their development and social service needs.
Pace Reach Counseling Services Program is a unique program that provides free behavioral health services that are strength based and gender responsive to girls who are not enrolled in the Pace day program. Girls and young women, ages 11-17, who reside in Hillsborough and Pinellas counties and who are referred to services from specified schools, Girls Court, juvenile probation and/or juvenile diversion programs are eligible to receive clinical behavioral and mental health services from licensed and licensed eligible therapists. Currently there are 80 girls receiving services in Hillsborough and Pinellas County. Since its inception in 2015 Reach Behavioral Services has served over 220 girls.
Pace Works is a comprehensive vocational and education program dedicated to impacting employability, vocational training and educational success of all girls enrolled in the Pace Center for Girls, Hillsborough program. The ultimate goal of the program is to provide the girls with the necessary tools to afford a high school diploma or GED, long term employability skills and successful transitions to the workforce, vocational trade or higher education in order to secure a brighter future.
Currently, Pace Hillsborough serves 62 girls in the day program monthly, an additional 100 girls in the Reach Regional South Tampa Bay program and employs a staff of 32, plus 2 Hillsborough County Teacher Assistants.
Resources
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Get in touch
1933 E. Hillsborough Avenue Suite 300
Tampa, FL 33610
Get DirectionsPhone: 813-739-0410
For enrollment referrals, please ask for:
Raquelle Hale email
813-739-0410 ext. 5611
Girls attend Pace to get appropriate counseling and education in a nurturing environment. To become enrolled, they must be between 11 to 17 years old, at least one year behind in school, and have 3 or more risk factors.
Risk factors are the underlying issues that lead girls to academic underachievement. These are issues such as: foster home placement, substance abuse (by girl or family member), domestic violence, incarceration of a family member, neglect, physical/emotional/sexual abuse, grief, emotional health concerns, low income, and more.