| Sibby is a well known Child/Youth Human Rights Activist and Advocate, where she serves in San Francisco Bay Area here in California. Sibby has blended new schools of thought, with regards to foster care and group homes for youth, domestic violence against women, children and teens, sexual assault against women and so many issues that mainstream society sweeps under the rug and would like all of us to forget about. But not Sibby, she has boldly entered into the social reform arena and has taken the bull by the horns. She has a unique style of true Leadership and has a way of really getting things done for the community she serves. This quiet and reserved woman leads by example and lets her work speak for itself. Over the past number of years she has created the Mentoring Life Skills Mission (MLSM). One has to log on to her amazing and comprehensive website: www.happinessrus.org to see the amazing diversity of services the Mentoring Life Skill Mission offers to the clients and people she advocates for! Her motto of the MLSM is simply: " Each one, Teach one!" Sibby learned the challenges and the ropes of being a single mother and parent when raising her own family. She quickly saw there was no services of infra-structure in place single women parents with children. From that point Sibby decided to address the issues of women, parents, kids and youth that American society had simply decided to forget! The "Richmond Truth Tazer" based out of Richmond, California, is a well known Bay Area Violence Prevention e-zine; cited Sibby's website as one of the very best they had ever seen for the type of Mentoring Life Skills Mission! Her website is a multi- cultural diverse showcase in the very best of leadership skills and resources. She has created a website that really has answers to questions. Her main theme at the website is to have adults empower our children, youth and young adults. She also has become a well-known grassroots independent video film-maker as well! She blended the technology of video and photography to help communicate her being advocate of human and civil rights of the people she serves. Her videos showcase the humanity of people trying to bring change, in a right way and a good way! She documents with her video cam, the emergence of a new America that many of us have never seen or will know about! She does interviews with everyday people who serve a neglected community, she records their inspiritual and motivational words of hope and salvation, these unsung heroes are whom Sibby has recorded and video-taped to inspire all us! Her videos are daring and informative, she goes to the front line's to get the story, report the story, but best of all she tells the story the way it was meant to be told. Sibby is an amazing, unique and spiritual leader in the Mentor Life Skills Mission. Her work is both holy and sacred, she inspires all of us that for the children, high-risk youth/ young adults and women in need that change is possible, but more importantly with individuals like Sibby change will be coming more quickly! |