Program:
Mind + Body
- Budget:
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$350,000
- Category:
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Food, Agriculture & Nutrition
- Population Served:
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Female Children ( 5 - 14 years)
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Female Youth/Adolescents (14 - 19 years)
Program Description:
The Girls
Inc. Mind+Body Initiative is a positive youth development outreach program that
gives girls ages 6 to 18 the knowledge, skills, and attitudes required
to form and maintain good health in today’s challenging environment by
addressing a spectrum of issues: food and nutrition, physical activity,
stress and body image. The program pays particular attention to family,
cultural, and community contexts of these interconnected issues.
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Program:
Affiliate Capacity Building
- Budget:
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$500,000
- Category:
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Youth Development
- Population Served:
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Female Children ( 5 - 14 years)
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Female Youth/Adolescents (14 - 19 years)
Program Description:
Our goals around strengthening the network of independent
local Girls Inc. organizations include:
- Invest in building and
supporting a base of affiliates committed to the Girls Inc. philosophy and
approach to programming and who have the capacity to implement nationally
and locally developed programs with integrity.
- Increase affiliates’
capacity to raise the level of financial resources so they can serve more
girls.
- Provide support to
provisional members to enable them to successfully achieve full member
organization status with a 2 – 3 year period.
We will work toward these goals through training affiliate
staff and board members around two key areas: fundraising, focusing on building
capacity among affiliate boards of directors, and institutionalizing effective
fundraising practices; and youth development, including topics such as positive
interactions with girls, group work, building a supportive environment,
and empowering girls.
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Program:
Violence Prevention Initiatives
- Budget:
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$250,000
- Category:
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Medical Research
- Population Served:
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Female Children ( 5 - 14 years)
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Female Youth/Adolescents (14 - 19 years)
Program Description:
Violence Prevention Initiative:
Over a decade ago, in response to our deep concern about the
interplay between violence, age, and gender, Girls Inc. created Project BOLD®,
a comprehensive, research-based program designed to help girls and young women
avoid, address and cope with violence. Project BOLD is a
multi-phased, age-appropriate violence prevention curriculum that helps girls
ages 6-18 to build the knowledge, skills and attitudes to live safer lives and
create more secure environments in their homes, schools, and communities.
We are currently updating and expanding our programming around violence prevention
and self-defense skills. Goals over the next two years include:
- Complete Be BOLD, the
program component of Project BOLD designed specifically for girls age 6-8.
- Update Action for
Safety, a curriculum component introduced in 1997 for girls ages 9-11 by
revising obsolete and dated information, and adding a section on Internet
safety.
- Develop a series of
program materials and workshops designed to address relationship violence
in the lives of 15-18 year old females.
- Pursue community action
and advocacy opportunities in conjunction with affiliates that address
issues relevant to girls and violence.
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Program:
Substance abuse prevention
- Budget:
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$250,000
- Category:
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Mental Health, Substance Abuse
- Population Served:
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Female Youth/Adolescents (14 - 19 years)
Program Description:
Girls Incorporated is planning to update and increase
training opportunities for Girls Inc. Friendly PEERsuasion®, a
gender specific substance abuse prevention program. The program has been
shown to help girls develop skills to resist pressure to use harmful substances
such as alcohol, tobacco, household chemicals, and other drugs. In this
peer-education program, girls ages 11 to 14 learn healthy ways to manage stress
and confront peer, media, and other pressures and then assume the roles of
PEERsuaders for young girls. The program is also available in Spanish as Persuasión
positiva.
We know that the program works. In 2002, SAMHSA’s
National Registry of Evidence-based Programs and Practices (NREPP) designated
Girls Inc. Friendly PEERsuasion as an Effective
Program under SAMHSA's previous National Registry of Effective
Prevention Programs system. Helping America’s Youth, a U.S.
government Web site, rates Girls Inc. Friendly PEERsuasion as a Level 2
program, demonstrating evidence of program effectiveness. We are
currently researching current issues and trends related to girls and substance
use, and updating the existing curriculum by creating additional sessions
addressing any new issues identified, revising fact sheets, and updating
resource links and connections. The next step is to create a distance
learning model for training that builds the capacity of Girls Inc. program
staff to identify and address specific issues in their community while
effectively utilizing technology. Using independent study and webinars,
Girls Inc. Training staff will design a program that engages staff in active
learning by asking them to produce and share PowerPoint presentations that
exemplify their learning during the training. These presentations will reflect
the current issues in their communities and within the population they work
with at their affiliate. In this way, we will ensure that each affiliate
is offering the most effective programming possible for the girls they serve.
The presentations will be available to all Girls Inc. national and local staff
on our affiliate training intranet site.
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