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Changing the culture

Changing the culture. because girls deserve a better world. Mission : To create opportunities, develop programs and provide services that empower girls and women. Vision : All girls and women experience equality, independence and safety in their everyday lives. Hardy Girls Healthy Women.

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Changing the culture

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  1. Changing the culture because girls deserve a better world

  2. Mission: To create opportunities, develop programs and provide services that empower girls and women. Vision: All girls and women experience equality, independence and safety in their everyday lives. Hardy Girls Healthy Women

  3. Adventure Girls • Girls Coalition Groups • Girls Advisory Board • Girls Unlimited! Conference • Girls Rock! Weekend • Ugly Ducklings • Rim County Outreach • Training Institute Programs

  4. “I think girls can do what boys can do and boys can do what girls do” Adventure Girl, age 8 Adventure Girls

  5. “I liked Adventure Girls because it is helpful to girls to realize they are brave and strong.” Adventure Girl, age 8, at law enforcement event Adventure Girls

  6. Adventure Girls gives girls the opportunity to meet once a month with women who are defying gender stereotypes and challenging notions of what a girl or woman “should” do or be. Adventure Girls

  7. True Beauty 4th of July Float

  8. Groups meet weekly to create a coalition of girl allies and to reduce girl fighting by discussing media literacy and how to proactively change the culture through social action projects. Girls’ Coalition Groups

  9. “Girls’ Group was really fun because you got to talk about anything you wanted to and if something was bothering you they understood because they’ve been through seventh grade before.”  Lindsay, Messalonskee Middle School Girls Coalition Groups

  10. After one group member talked about the sexual violence she experienced as a child and another expressed the pain of living with an alcoholic parent, the girls coalition group decided they needed to do something to show their support for their sisters and all the other students in their school who have been the victims of abuse, members of alcoholic families, or are living with other kinds of pain and hurt. They initiated a Day of Hope. Girls’ Coalition Groups

  11. GAB is composed of young women from 8th to 12th grades. GAB provides opportunities for leadership experience, engaging in social action projects, and keeping the organization current on challenges facing girls today. Girls Advisory Board

  12. GAB members at the Hardy Girls Open House Love Your Body Day Celebration Girls Advisory Board

  13. Girls Advisory Board

  14. Girls in grades 5-8 spend a day broadening their horizons in workshops and activities designed to challenge and lead them to develop a more critical thinking process about the world around them and their place in it. Girls Unlimited!

  15. Girls Unlimited!

  16. Girls Unlimited!

  17. Girls Rock! Weekend celebrates girls voices in music, art and literature. Girls Rock! Weekend

  18. Inspired by the award-winning play of the same name, 'Ugly Ducklings' captures the behind-the-scenes conversations with the play's fourteen female actors as they become the characters in the play and come to terms with their own biased behavior. Ugly Ducklings

  19. “This documentary is right now the best film on the planet that confronts us with the painful intrapersonal and interpersonal effects on all young people of the pervasive sexual prejudice that we teach them, and the resultant harassment and bullying, and it does so with power and sensitivity.” Diane Elze, School of Social Work, University of Buffalo Ugly Ducklings

  20. Hardy Girls has launched a 3-year effort to bring together stakeholders in 6 of Maine’s most underserved, rural “rim” counties. Rim County Expansion

  21. The HGHW Training Institute provides educators, parents, camp professionals, social service and health care providers research based methods and resources to create hardiness zones. HGHW Training Institute

  22. 14 Common Street Waterville, ME 04901 207.681.6131 www.hghw.org

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