Learn More about Our Programs
Our award-winning programs are grounded in research, tested in the field at Girls Inc. affiliates, and delivered by trained facilitators. We serve girls ages 6-18 with afterschool outreach programs with programs that:
- build girls’ skills and interest in science, math, and relevant technology;
- help girls identify ways and reasons to avoid early pregnancy and to prevent sexually transmitted infections, including HIV;
- build girls’ skills for resisting pressure to use harmful substances such as alcohol, tobacco, and illegal drugs or to abuse medications or household chemicals;
- strengthen girls’ ability to lead safer lives and develop skills and strategies for self-defense (including physical techniques), and how to seek out and talk with caring adults about personal violence and to advocate on gender-specific violence issues;
- encourage girls to think critically about media messages and foster their awareness of the scope and power of the media and its effects on girls and women.;
- introduce girls as young as six to basic economic concepts, including money management and investment;
- build movement and athletic skills, cooperative and competitive spirit, health awareness, and interest in all sports;
- partner girls and women in community action projects chosen by girls, building leadership skills and creating lasting change.
NEW WORKSHOPS FOR FALL 2011
Know Your Personal Power
This workshop addresses violence in girls' lives as they grow and develop & gives them the skills they need to keep themselves safe. This is a 3-hour workshop for girls ages 6-14.
Mothers & Daughters
This workshop provides valuable support to mothers and their daughters so they may have a greater understanding of each other as they address the challenges of growing from girlhood to womanhood. Includes enhanced communication and listening skills for Mothers and Daughters (ages 9-14) participating in the workshop by using activities and questions around economic literacy as one of the foundation topics. This is 4 ½ hour workshop for girls ages 9-14.
What a Girl Wants
This workshop for girls ages 15-18, discusses healthy and unhealthy relationships & examines relationship violence & focuses on developing & maintaining safe & healthy relationships. This is a 4 ½ hour workshop.
Schedule a Workshop or Program for your Group
Workshops can be delivered during or after school, in a work environment or as a weekend event. The Programs listed below consist of 12 to 15 sessions of 1 to 1 1/2 hours each. Programs are delivered at your site by professionally trained facilitators and session frequency can be tailored to meet your specific needs—after school outreach or during school. Call us at (520) 623-2661 or email
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Girls Inc. Operation SMART® builds girls’ skills and interest in science, math, and relevant technology. Hands-on activities give girls the opportunity to explore, ask questions, and solve problems. Components of Operation SMART include: Eureka!, Girls Dig It, Career Action, Thinking SMART, and our Operation SMART Website.
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Girls Inc. Preventing Adolescent Pregnancy ® helps girls identify ways and reasons to avoid early pregnancy and to prevent sexually transmitted infections, including HIV. The program fosters girls’ communication skills, provides basic health education, and encourages girls to plan for the future through four age-appropriate components: Growing TogetherSM, Will Power/Won't PowerSM, Taking Care of BusinessSM, and Health BridgeSM. The first two components have been translated into Spanish as Crecer juntas and Querer/Poder decir “no.”
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Girls Inc. Economic Literacy® introduces girls as young as six to basic economic concepts, including money management and investment. The program explores how the economy affects us locally and globally as it fosters development of the skills needed to achieve economic independence. Girls learn these skills through four age-appropriate components: She’s on the Money!SM, Dollars, Sense, and Me℠, Equal Earners, Savvy SpendersSM, and Futures and OptionsSM.
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Girls Inc. Sporting Chance® builds movement and athletic skills, cooperative and competitive spirit, health awareness, and interest in all sports. Girls in this program also explore career opportunities related to sports and experience the benefits of healthy risk taking. The program lays a foundation for a lifetime of physical activity and sports participation through two age-appropriate programs: SteppingstonesSM and BridgesSM and one special project: BoneZoneSM.
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Girls Inc. Friendly PEERsuasion ® builds girls’ skills for resisting pressure to use harmful substances such as alcohol, tobacco, and illegal drugs or to abuse medications or household chemicals. 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 children. Friendly PEERsuasion is also available in Spanish as Persuasion Positiva.
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Girls Inc. Project Bold® strengthens girls’ ability to lead safer lives. In addition to developing skills and strategies for self-defense (including physical techniques), girls learn how to seek out and talk with caring adults about personal violence and to advocate on gender-specific violence issues. Components developed to date include Kid-Ability!™ Kid Jr., a Girls Inc. of Omaha program (for girls ages 6 to 8), Action for SafetySM (for girls ages 9 to 11), and Living Safe and Strong (for girls in their early teens).
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Girls Inc. Media Literacy ®, a comprehensive media literacy program, encourages girls to think critically about media messages and fosters their awareness of the scope and power of the media and its effects on girls and women. Girls gain skills that enhance their ability to critically examine and advocate for change in entertainment, news, and advertising media.
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Girls Inc. Discovery Leadership® partners girls and women in community action projects chosen by girls, building leadership skills and creating lasting change. This leadership development program for girls ages 9 to 11 celebrates the heritage of girls and women as leaders, and fosters girls awareness of themselves as community resources and trustees of the common good.
Girls Inc. Money Talks Family Financial Literacy Workshop(sm)
This workshop enhances communication and listening skills around family financial literacy between girls (ages 12 - 14) and influential adults in their lives. The workshop runs about 4 1/2 hours. Girls learn together in fun, interactive ways about spending choices, budgeting, borrowing, and saving. Adults receive a refresher on money issues important in today's difficult financial climate; and girls and adults come together in a challenging exercise to enhance communication and listening skills around money issues.
