Pace In the News

Rosene Johnson, the executive director of Pace Center for Girls Orange, tells News 6 the center uses an evidence-based approach to education and counseling, specific to how girls ages 11-18 learn.

Mayo Clinic has awarded grants to 26 organizations and programs, including Pace Center for Girls, to address the key community health needs identified in this year’s Northeast Florida Community Health Needs Assessment.

Feedback is core to Pace Center for Girls’ learning agenda and contributes to quality improvement efforts, innovation, and social impact. Listening to the girls we serve through our year-round academic and social services programming is a highlighted value in our mission and theory of change.

When Xonjenese Jacobs, a USF College of Public Health DrPH student, got her BSW degree, she knew she wanted to make at-promise adolescent girls her “population of choice.” She now serves as the executive director of the Pace Center for Girls, Hernando, a position she was appointed to in July.

Rivera is a recent high school graduate and valedictorian of Pace Center for Girls. Rivera was a former secretary of the Pace Center for Girls’ Leadership Council and was a member of Leadership Grow of Palm Beach County. Rivera currently serves as a 2022 Florida Department of Juvenile Justice Youth Ambassador.