Since its inception BNA of GWDCA has supported quality nursing education at all levels as a professional obligation. Consistent with the NBNA charter, the BNA of GWDCA is focused on the nursing profession and nursing students, vulnerable members of the African American community and coalition building for the elimination of health disparities and the professional growth of licensed nurses and nursing students.

• Engage youth of middle and high school age, both male and female, to introduce and familiarize them with careers in professional nursing as well as other health professional careers.
• Provide a clear and broad picture of nursing and other health careers.
• Guide students in the selection of courses appropriate for the successful study of nursing.
• Ensure that students are knowledgeable about the different nursing educational programs and their relationship to the type of nursing career they wish to pursue.
• Integrate discussions with youth to include health promotion and disease prevention messages aimed at the elimination of health disparities, such as, obesity, hypertension, diabetes and HIV/AIDS.
• Maintain a library of information about available nursing scholarships including BNA of GWDCA and NBNA scholarships.
• Provide funding for refreshments for the youth as well as other incentives to encourage youth participation.
• Maintain contact and provide mentoring to youth through graduation from high school and throughout the study and completion of the nursing education program and licensure.
• Conduct "encouragement socials" to provide mentoring to nursing students at local colleges and universities to foster the successful completion of the study of nursing and the subsequent licensure.

• Collaborate with local school officials and others who conduct programs for youth to gain opportunities to hold meetings with youth in school settings.
• Introduce both males and females to careers in professional nursing and other health professional careers.
• Maintain an array of audio-visual and written materials, related to the profession of nursing and the varied nursing specialties and care settings, required to demonstrate, clearly, the broad picture of nursing in a designated series of meetings.
• Guide students in the selection of class work appropriate for the successful study of nursing.
• Provide nursing education programmatic information from local colleges and universities.
• Integrate discussions with youth to include health promotion and disease prevention messages aimed at the elimination of health disparities such as obesity, hypertension, diabetes and HIV/AIDS.
• Maintain a library of information about available nursing scholarships including BNA of GWDCA and NBNA scholarships.
• Provide funding for refreshments for the youth as well as other incentives to encourage youth participation overtime.
• Maintain contact with students after graduation from high school through matriculation in the study of nursing to provide mentoring.
• Provide the training needed to implement the Protocol, guided by the mission and objectives.
• Provide volunteers with talking points and Make a Difference: Choose Nursing brochures to use in discussions with youth program officials.