Founded eleven years ago as The F.I.N.D. (Families in Need of Direction) Design and currently renamed as F.L.Y. Girl Institute (Forever Loving Yourself), by Kara James and Sharese Chapman. The two Michigan Natives, as black women, became frustrated and saddened by the lack of safe space for black and brown girls in Middle Tennessee. Eurocentric program models and curricula that were available failed to address the specific needs of "at-risk" Black girls, undermining their sense of worth by framing them as needing to be "fixed" rather than recognizing and building on their strengths.