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Brooklyn, New York (June 23, 2025)—Jeremiah Program’s Brooklyn Campus will proudly host its 2025 Graduation Ceremony on Friday, June 27, from 4:00 PM to 7:00 PM at the Brooklyn Children’s Museum. This joyful celebration will honor 15 single mothers who have successfully completed the program—including Ruth Frasher, who is receiving her master’s degree. JP Brooklyn is also celebrating 10 young children graduating from 5th and 8th grade, all who have flourished in Jeremiah’s early childhood education environment.
The ceremony will highlight the extraordinary resilience and determination of these families as they cross the stage, not just as individuals, but as a community bound by mutual support, achievement, and hope for a brighter future.
“Graduation marks a powerful milestone in our mom’s JP journey,” said Elizabeth Dessources, Family Services Director. “A celebration of 15 resilient moms who have transformed their lives through education, community, and self-determination. Their achievement reflects not only personal triumphs, but the collective progress of our organization’s commitment to working alongside single mothers and their children on their goals.”
Jeremiah Program offers a holistic, two-generation approach to disrupting the cycle of poverty and advancing economic mobility by investing in single mothers pursuing a college education and their children. The Brooklyn campus provides comprehensive support including coaching, early childhood education, empowerment and career development programming, and community-building initiatives that foster lasting relationships.
“In a city where single mothers—especially Black and Brown women—are navigating rising housing costs, vanishing safety nets, and relentless systemic inequities, this graduation is more than a ceremony. It’s a collective act of resistance, resilience, and reimagining,” added Tiana Stowers Pearson, Executive Director of JP Brooklyn. “These 15 student mothers have done what the data tells us is nearly impossible: pursued higher education while raising children alone, in an environment designed to make them invisible. At Jeremiah Program Brooklyn, we don’t just witness their brilliance—we invest in it. We co-create pathways where policy has failed, and we build community where isolation once lived. This moment redefines what’s possible: when single mothers are resourced and recognized, they unlock generational power and economic mobility.”
The June 27 graduation is not only a recognition of academic accomplishments, but a celebration of courage, perseverance, and the lifelong bonds built at Jeremiah. The event will include family-friendly activities, refreshments, and opportunities for community partners, funders, and supporters to witness firsthand the impact of the organization’s mission.
About Jeremiah Program: Jeremiah Program (JP) is a national organization whose mission is to disrupt the cycle of poverty for single mothers and their children, two generations at a time. By investing simultaneously in a mother’s vision for her personal and professional goals and the education of her children, she simultaneously reauthors her family’s outcome as well as her community’s—proof points matter. In 2024, JP actively served over 2,000 moms and children across nine cities: Austin, TX; Baltimore, MD; Boston, MA; Brooklyn, NY; Fargo, ND-Moorhead, MN; Las Vegas, NV; Minneapolis, MN; Rochester, MN; and St. Paul, MN.
