Mentor Focused Programs
Making Girls Smile is a Joyful Experience.
Our culturally and age appropriate mentoring programs promote positive outcomes by providing opportunities and experiences, fostering positive relationships, and giving support that is needed to prevent risky behaviors and develop young people’s assets.
Our programs are gender and mentor focused and include a variety of research based, age, and gender appropriate activities. They are incorporated into a comprehensive life skills development curriculum implemented through a workshop, seminar and camp methodology held at schools, after-school, during summer, spring breaks and at regularly scheduled events including youth summits and camps. All programs are conducted and taught by motivated, talented and credentialed professionals in fun-filled, nurturing and safe environments.
Our mentoring partners include corporate and community leaders, peer leaders and parents, performing, visual and literary artists, athletes, authors, coaches and educators. These caring and concerned stakeholders impart time, talent, wisdom and monetary gifts to help provide youth with strategies that empower them to know how to think critically and make wise choices in life. Ultimately, they learn to make the most of life's challenges and opportunities. We provide forums to expose and benefit girls and young women to the importance of:
- self-worth.
- self confidence.
- healthy lifestyles.
- educational excellence, and
- critical thinking.
Our programs are designed to:
- promote the positive growth and development of the mind, body and spirit.
- instill a sense of competence, usefulness, and kindness.
- inspire a sense of belonging, confidence, power and influence.
We stress the importance of academic excellence, physical fitness, sports, health, mental and physical well-being, and social grace. As well as creative self-expression. We give youth positive experiences, valuable knowledge, and access to information from which to make the right choices in life. Included in our goals of mentoring are that our youth possess essential qualities that promote social values such as kindness, helpfulness, personal, community and civic responsibility, and respect for self and others.
Mentoring Models & Programs
- Group Mentoring
- Peer Mentoring
- Training Based Mentoring
- (Girls Against Domestic Abuse - GADA) Mentoring
- Pearls of Women Agenda (POWA)
LIFE SKILLS DEVELOPMENT
- Literacy Arts
- Writing & Book Club
- Visual / Preforming Arts
- Girls Rock the Arts Gallery Exhibition
- College Essentials
- College Scholarships
- ARC Scholarship
- Homework Assistance
- Internships
- Literacy
- Special Project Assistance
- The STEM Initiative (TSI)
- Tutoring (In & After School Program)
HEALTHY
Etiquette
Etiquette classes help our youth to know how to treat others respectfully and appropriately in any content. By knowing how to read social cues and communicating effectively, others are put at ease, meaningful relationships are fostered, and comfortable and relaxed atmospheres are created wherever they go.
- Etiquette
- Essential Social Skills
- Image and Grooming
- Relationship Building
GADA highlights awareness, prevention and eradication of domestic violence through education. Girls and young women are taught that it is never ok to be abused. Through learning about healthy relationships and having healthy self-esteem, they are better able to understand domestic abuse, advocate against such abuses, and to advocate for themselves and others.They learn to recognize the warning signs of abuse, and to never let abuse silence them. And, most important, when and where to seek help.
HEALTH Fitness Wellness & Nutrition
Physical activity and fitness promotes good health. Nutrition is a critical part of health and well-being of growth and development that creates the foundation for total health, productivity and a quality of life.
INSPIRE. ENCOURAGE. EMPOWER & EQUIP. GIRLS TO LEAD AND SUCCEED
CONFIDENT
LIFE SKILLS Develop-ment Camps
- Career Guidance
- Character Development
- Cultural Awareness
- Entrepreneurship
- Financial Literacy
- Image Consulting / Guidance
- Occupational Guidance & Preparation
- Responsible Citzenship
- Social Etiquette
LIFE SKILLS Develop-ment Camps
- Career Guidance
- Character Development
- Cultural Awareness
- Entrepreneurship
- Financial Literacy
- Image Consulting / Guidance
- Occupational Guidance & Preparation
- Responsible Citzenship
- Social Etiquette
- Girls Against Domestic Abuse (GADA)
- Group Mentoring
- Pearls of Women Agenda (POWA)
- POWABASE 360)
- Peer Mentoring
- RAPSynergy
- School Based Group Mentoring
GUIDANCE & Occupation Preparation
- Appropriate Work Habits and Behaviors
- Introduce fundamental behaviors, attitudes and habits needed to obtain and maintain employment in career choices.
- Internships: Obtaining specific job and work experiences
- Interview Essentials and Mock Interviews
- Knowing, Exploring, Selecting and Planning Occupational Choices
- Recognizing Importance of Supervision
- Seeking, Securing and Maintaining Employment
STRONG
RAPSnergy
RAPSnergy is a peer roundtable for junior high and high school adolescents. It is a forum held to encourage and promote Respect and Pride and Snergy between the two genders.
- In our RAPSnergy program adolescent girls and boys ages 11-14 and 15-17 convene for intellectual group discussions in a safe, uplifting environment, along with the guidance of mentors, to engage in positive communication as they discuss and examine age appropriate topics, concerns, challenges and collective interests.
Recreation
Educational and strategy based board games are designed to enhance critical thinking skills:
- Bridge
- Chess
- Checkers
- Croquet
- Scrabble
WISE
RAPSnergy
RAPSnergy is a peer roundtable for junior high and high school adolescents. It is a forum held to encourage and promote Respect and Pride and Snergy between the two genders.
- In our RAPSnergy program adolescent girls and boys ages 11-14 and 15-17 convene for intellectual group discussions in a safe, uplifting environment, along with the guidance of mentors, to engage in positive communication as they discuss and examine age appropriate topics, concerns, challenges and collective interests.
Recreation
Educational and strategy based board games are designed to enhance critical thinking skills:
- Bridge
- Chess
- Checkers
- Croquet
- Scrabble
To increase the presence of girls and women in STEM fields we must eliminate the stereotype that girls are incapable, unqualified and or disinterested in STEM. The STEM Initiative (TSI) fosters inclusivity by increasing the interest and accessibility of STEM programs for students from lower income families and underserved communities to close the achievement gap in the STEM fields for girls. We sponsor in-school and after school sessions to foster proactive and successful relationships for girls
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