 This bi-weekly program paired young women from East Palo Alto with players from the Stanford Women's Basketball team for individual mentoring sessions, as well as group sessions that allowed the young women to explore various academic areas through hands-on experience.In 1997, Wideman founded and implemented another youth program called "Hoopin' with Jamila".This program combined basketball skills clinics with a reading and writing program targeted at young women of color incarcerated in the juvenile justice system in Los Angeles.