PROGRAMS FOR
INDIVIDUALS
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Forward - A prevention program for adolescent
girls, offers girls and their families a five day/week
after school program, home based family counseling,
and adjunct services in order to help girls and
their families promote school attendance and safe
health behaviors. Girls and their families are
referred to Project FORWARD through truancy court
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Sisters - is a fun and exciting day camp
for girls ages 10-14. Summer Sisters offers girls
the opportunity to experience Summer in the City,
with a special emphasis on art and outdoor education,
with field trips and activities designed to empower
girls and promote high self-esteem. Offered in
two-week sessions, the Summer Sisters program provides
girls with the opportunity to make new friends
and participate in a variety of fun and positive
activities.
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| Saturday
Sisters - is a recreation program for girls
ages 7-11. This program is designed to build socialization
skills in a fun and safe environment. Saturday
Sisters offers girls the opportunity to interact
with volunteer mentors in a group setting. Saturday
Sisters promotes high self-esteem, cultural literacy
and the creative arts. The program is offered twice
a month, in Center City Philadelphia. |
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PROGRAMS
IN SCHOOLS
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Project
Self
Self-reliance through Example, Learning,
and Fun provides life skills workshops for
girls and boys with physical and sensory
disabilities. Project SELF provides school-based
job readiness training and then places participants
in paid summer employment in order to enable
teens to make a successful transition from
school to work.
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| School
Sisters: A school-based mentoring program
designed as a collaboration of undergraduate women,
middle schools, and Girls Inc. staff. College women
attending several area colleges and universities
volunteer as mentors at local public schools. The
volunteer college students meet with the girls
once a week at school, after the regular school
day ends. The focus in these meetings is on providing
help in academic studies and special projects in
order to raise achievement levels, improve self-esteem,
and raise career and educational expectations.
The program also includes field trips to the college
of the participating volunteers, group sessions
with the volunteers with icebreakers and relationship
building exercises, and memory books for the school
sisters to record their activities, feelings, and
thoughts for the future. |
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| Preventing
Adolescent Pregnancy® Will Power/Won't Power®: bolsters
girls' communication skills as well as their
motivation and resources for being in charge of
their sexual health and avoiding teen pregnancy.
(See identity programs for more details.) This
program targets 7th and 8th grade girls. The girls
meet in structured workshops led by Girls Inc.
trainers once a week. The workshops are offered
during school hours in lieu of health classes,
and uses the Girls Inc.® Preventing
Adolescent Pregnancy® Will Power/Won't
Power® curriculum. |
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Project
Step: School-based Training and Education
Partnership between Girls Inc. and area schools
that enroll youth with physical and sensory disabilities.
Most teens with disabilities are overlooked in
the youth development programs, so they rarely
get a chance to just talk to each other about
being a TEEN. Project STEP addresses this isolation
by coming to their schools and leading discussions
around healthy sexual development, pregnancy
prevention, personal safety, and life skills.
Because so few programs work with teens with
disabilities, this program enrolls both boys
and girls ages 12-17. The program staff are fluent
in American Sign Language for those students
who are deaf.
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FAMILIES BASED PROGRAMS
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to Families in their Own Home (SCOH): An
intensive in-home counseling program to prevent
child abuse in high-risk families. A social worker
from Girls Inc. visits the family at their home
for up to three hours a week. A family profile
assessment is created to pinpoint the greatest
areas of need as well as the family’s strengths.
Together, the Girls Inc. social worker and the
parenting adult draw up a plan of action that both
must sign. Although the plan is tailored to each
family, most common are assistance, referral, and
direct support to achieve treatment for drug and
alcohol addiction; home management skills like
budgeting, wise shopping, and nutrition; and parenting
skills. Special needs children are incorporated
into this program, for nearly 50% of the children
have learning disabilities or mental health issues.
We employ a psychologist to do on-site assessments
so we can advocate for the most appropriate school
setting for the children and appropriate care for
the adult. Due to the rising number of pre-teens
entering the child welfare system, we have a specialty
practice for serving parents of preteens. |
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LOVE & LIMITS:
Strengthening Families Program: for girls
ages 10-14 and their parents/caregivers. This
program provides services for adults facing parenting
challenges as well as sessions for girls to learn
how to effectively communicate with their primary
caregiver. GirlSMART is our newest program to
address the unmet needs of parents of pre-adolescent
girls. GirlSMART is offered to the general parenting
population helping to strengthen families and “equalize
the playing field” for girls in the city
of Philadelphia.
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IDENTITY
PROGRAMS
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S.M.A.R.T.® - Hands On activity in Math
and Science, Technology and Engineering. Encourages
girls to be curious, ask questions, builds girls'
skills and interest in science, math, and technology.
Hands-on activities give girls ages 6 to 18 the
opportunity to explore, ask questions, and solve
problems. |
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Girls
Inc.® Media Literacy® - encourages girls to think
critically about media messages and fosters their
awareness of the power of the media and its effects
on girls. |
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Preventing
Adolescent Pregnancy® Will Power/Won't Power® - Nationally recognized as
one of the few research-based programs addressing
the prevention of teen pregnancy. Program helps
girls ages 9 to 18 identify ways and reasons to
avoid early pregnancy. The program fosters girls'
communication skills as well as their motivation
and resources for being in charge of their sexual
health and avoiding teen pregnancy. Provides basic
health education, and encourages girls to plan
for the future through four age-appropriate components:
Growing Together(SM), Will Power/Won't Power® and Taking Care of Business® |
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Girls Inc.® Discovery Leadership® -
builds leadership skills and creates lasting social
change by partnering girls and women in community
action projects chosen by girls. Ages 9-11 |
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Girls
Inc.® Friendly PEERsuasion® -
Substance Abuse Prevention and Education program.
Builds girls' skills for resisting pressure to
use harmful substances such as alcohol, tobacco,
household chemicals and other drugs. The two-part
substance abuse prevention program teaches girls
ages 11 to 14 healthy ways to manage stress and
confront peer, media and other pressures. The
girls then assume roles as PEERsuaders® for younger girls ages 6
to 10 |
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Girls Inc.® Economic Literacy® -
Introduces girls to basic economic and financial
literacy, including money management, investment
and global economics. The program explores how
money affects us locally and globally as it fosters
development
of the skills needed to be financially self-sufficient.
Ages 6-18 |
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Girls
Inc.® Project Bold® - Violence Prevention/Self-Defense,
Self-Reliance and Life Skills. Strengthens
girls' abilities to lead safer lives by developing
strategies for self-defense (including physical
techniques), seeking out caring adults to help
with personal violence, and advocating on violence
issues. Girls ages 6 to 18. Age-appropriate
components include Kid-Ability!™ (Kid Jr.),
Action for Safety(SM) and
Taking Action. |
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Girls
Inc.® Sporting Chance® - Builds movement and athletic skills,
cooperative and competitive spirits, health awareness,
and interest in all sports as girls explore the
benefits of an active lifestyle. |
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