Download or read book Girls Respect Groups An Innovative Program to Empower Young Women Build Self Esteem written by Lorna Blumen and published by Camberley Press Limited. This book was released on 2009-03 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looking for a great volunteer project for teen girls? Girls Respect Groups: An Innovative Program To Empower Young Women & Build Self-Esteem! will guide you step-by-step through the 6-week curriculum for Girls Respect Groups, a unique program for middle school girls, led by high school teen girls. Working together, both sets of young women explore how respect can affect the rest of their lives & learn to make choices rooted in self-confidence and self-respect. Learn how easy it is to start a GRG Leadership Program at your school or in your community. Train inspiring teen girls to become GRG leaders. Build a positive community of girls helping girls!
Download or read book Respect written by Courtney Macavinta and published by Free Spirit Publishing. This book was released on 2005-06-15 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This smart, savvy book helps teen girls get respect and hold on to is no matter what—at home, at school, with their friends, and in the world. Tips, activities, writing exercises, and quotes from teens keep readers involved. This “big sister” style inspires trust. Girls learn respect is connected to everything, every girl deserves respect, and respect is always within reach because it starts on the inside. This book is your guide to getting respect and keeping it.
Download or read book Bullying Epidemic written by Lorna Blumen and published by Camberley Press Limited. This book was released on 2011 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bullying Epidemic: Not Just Child's Play is a powerful new book on children s bullying and the corrosive, enabling role adults inadvertently play. Why is bullying still a growing crisis, after a decade of bullying prevention programs? Bullying Epidemic looks clearly at the self-serving excuses adults make for failing to step in and stop bullying, and the tremendous human cost of looking away while our kids are suffering. Caught early, bullying is easily stopped. Unchallenged, bullying becomes impossibly complex, with no rewind button, leaving permanent emotional scars and, too frequently, costing children their lives. No law can provide consolation or damage repair for parents who ve lost children to suicide. All of us are damaged by the roles we play bully, target, and, most frequently, bystander. Adults must reclaim our roles as leaders to children, clean up the bullying in adult workplaces, in our personal lives, and on TV. We must unwaveringly insist that kids do the same. Kids should know that every day is bullying prevention day not just when cameras are rolling or the bullying prevention expert is in the school. Bullying Epidemic offers a commonsense action plan for all adults determined to turn the tide of children s bullying. Lorna Blumen is an educational consultant and bullying prevention specialist. Author of Girls Respect Groups: An Innovative Program To Empower Young Women & Build Self-Esteem!, she has appeared on Canadian and U.S. television and radio.
Download or read book Female Genital Cutting written by Terry Teague Meyer and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2015-07-15 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book raises awareness about female genital cutting and provides essential information to help end its practice. It's packed with resources to support women's physical, psychological, and emotional health and healing.
Download or read book Conscious Empowerment written by Leah Berdysz and published by . This book was released on 2021-08 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conscious Empowerment: A Guide to Helping Girls Build Self-Esteem & Confidence explores the intersection of race, culture, ethnic background, and socioeconomic status on the development of a young girl's self-esteem and confidence. This book speaks to parents and professionals who ask themselves: What unique challenges are faced during the critical time young girls develop self-esteem and confidence? What tangible ways can I help and empower the girls I live and work with? Conscious Empowerment is divided into six basic "hashtagged" principles for helping girls from all backgrounds build self-esteem and confidence. The principle chapters are immediately followed by "How To" chapters that provide tangible steps for application. Author Leah Berdysz aims to help young girls grow into a generation of strong, confident, self-assured, and consciously empowered women. Do you dare to dream of a better world in which girls can live and thrive?
Download or read book Sexual Trafficking and Modern Day Slavery written by Terry Teague Meyer and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2015-07-15 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sexual trafficking is a pressing issue—and one that doesn’t receive enough attention or discussion. In this groundbreaking title, readers will come face-to-face with the realities of sexual trafficking and modern-day slavery. Myths such as the belief that slavery is a practice of the past are debunked with statistics and facts regarding the global slave trade and sexual trafficking in North America. Most important, readers will learn the warning signs of trafficking, the ways that governments are combatting the problem, and how they—as consumers—can fight back and confront sexual trafficking and slave labor.
Download or read book The Cool Confident and Strong Self Esteem and Smart Choices Workbook written by Cassandra Mack and published by . This book was released on 2018-04-27 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: About The BookToday's adolescent girls are faced with so many pressures - the pressure to be popular, the pressure to fit in at almost any cost, the pressure to compete for attention from boys...often at the risk of their own self-worth, the pressure to have sex at a younger and younger age, the pressure to emulate the objectified images portrayed in popular music videos, television shows and magazines as well as the pressure to engage in behaviors that are in direct conflict with their fundamental beliefs. It is critical that girls have as many avenues as possible to build self-esteem and develop practical strategies that will empower them to make smart choices. The Cool, Confident and Strong Self-Esteem and Smart Choices Workbook, is a companion book to my national self-esteem guide for girls entitled, Cool, Confident and Strong: 52 Power Moves for Girls. The Cool, Confident and Strong Self-Esteem and Smart Choices Workbook, contains 52 life skills activities known as power moves designed to help girls: build confidence and self-esteem, develop decision-making, problem solving and values-clarification skills so that they can make choices that respect their values, bodies and boundaries as well as remain true to themselves when faced with social pressures.Who Should Use This BookThe Cool, Confident and Strong Self-Esteem and Smart Choices Workbook can be used with schools, youth leadership groups, girl scouts, girls clubs, mother and daughter groups, foster care agencies, congregate care programs, juvenile justice, GED and literacy programs, pregnancy-prevention programs, athletic programs, rites of passage programs or any program that serves adolescent girls and young women. What You'll Get From This BookAs a parent, educator or youth service provider, you'll walk away from this book with practical activities that you can use to equip girls with essential life and leadership skills.Adolescent girls will walk away from this book equipped with new tools to help them increase their self-esteem and confidence, develop better decision-making and leadership skills as well as handle difficult dilemmas with smarts and style.How To Use This BookThe Cool, Confident and Strong Self-Esteem and Smart Choices Workbook, can be used in three ways: 1.) For parents to use with their daughters in conjunction with the book Cool, Confident and Strong: 52 Power Moves for Girls; 2.) For educators and youth service providers to use as an enhancement to the book Cool, Confident and Strong: 52 Power Moves for Girls in order to get girls thinking, talking and coming up with solutions for the myriad of issues that impact them; 3.) Or, as a standalone workbook that girls can read and complete on their own. Utilizing this workbook is easy: For adults using the book with girls; simply choose the power move that you want to focus on, guide your girls through the selected activity and then lead your girls through a guided discussion around the topic. For girls using this book on their own; simply choose a power move, complete the activity and if you want to explore the topic in greater detail get an adult you trust and talk to them about the topic.
Download or read book Mean Girls at Work How to Stay Professional When Things Get Personal written by Katherine Crowley and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 2012-11-02 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the New York Post's Top 10 Career Books of 2012 and a Booklist Top 10 Business Book DO YOU WORK WITH A MEAN GIRL? A woman’s field guide to the new frontier of professional development—working with other women Women-to-women relationships in the workplace are . . . complicated. When they’re good, they’re great. But when they’re bad, they can ruin your day, your week—even your year. Packed with proven advice from two of today’s leading experts in workplace relationships, this one-of-a-kind guide gives women the tools they need to navigate difficult situations unique to women-to-women relationships—whether with a boss, a colleague, a client, or an employee. Have you dealt with a woman in the workplace who: “Accidentally” excludes you from important meetings? Seems intent on taking you down professionally? Gossips about you with other coworkers? Makes you look bad by missing deadlines? Forms a “pack” of mean girls to make your life miserable? Mean Girls at Work isn’t just about surviving difficult situations. It’s about transforming a toxic relationship into one that benefits and supports both of you. This book is also for women who engage in mean behavior . . . but don’t know it. After all, who hasn’t gossiped about a female coworker? Who hasn’t rolled her eyes in the presence of a woman she doesn’t like? Who hasn’t scanned another woman head to toe—which is just a nonverbal way of saying, “You’ve just been judged”? The authors provide invaluable advice to the more subtle ways of being mean—even if they’re not intended. With a workforce composed of a higher percentage of women than ever, workplace dynamics have changed. Crowley and Elster cover every conceivable scenario, providing critical advice on how to rise above the fray and move forward professionally. Mean Girls at Work is your map to dodging the mines and moving forward in today’s transformed workplace. Praise for Mean Girls at Work “An invaluable suit of armor for surviving nine to five!” —Leil Lowndes, bestselling author of How to Talk to Anyone “If you think the emotional cruelty of comedies like Mean Girls and Heathers doesn’t exist in the real world workplace, think again. In Mean Girls at Work, Katherine Crowley and Kathi Elster valuably chronicle female vs. female predators and offer solid defensive strategies.” —Ann Kreamer, author of It’s Always Personal: Navigating Emotion in the New Workplace “Whether you are in your twenties and just starting your professional career, your midcareer forties, when you are supposed to have figured it out already, or a woman in her fifties or sixties who’s seen it all—this book is a must-read. . . . The authors have finally given women the tools and the sound advice necessary to deal with . . . conflicts that keep us all from succeeding. . . . Carry this book with you to work every day!” —Carolyn Cassin, President, Michigan Women’s Foundation “A must-read for women of all ages in today’s workforce. This book offers what we all need to develop the capacities to endure this ever-changing workplace. We know it is all about relationships and you need the skills outlined in this book to survive and thrive when the Mean Girls attack.” —Kim Harrington, Coordinator, Professional Development and Training, Office of Human Resources, California State University, Sacramento
Download or read book Girls on Track written by Molly Barker and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During adolescence, if a girl isn’t careful, she can fall into a trap called the Girl Box—a place where the way she looks is more important than who she is, where having a boyfriend is worth giving up a piece of her identity. This is a very serious problem, one that can lead to substance abuse, eating disorders, early sexual contact, and depression. Now Molly Barker, founder of the dynamic Girls on the Run® exercise program, has created a ten-week self-esteem-building plan that will instill resiliency in young girls and enhance their emotional, social, physical, mental, and spiritual health. The activities and lessons are designed for parents and girls to do together and include
Download or read book Voice and Agency written by Jeni Klugman and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2014-09-29 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite recent advances in important aspects of the lives of girls and women, pervasive challenges remain. These challenges reflect widespread deprivations and constraints and include epidemic levels of gender-based violence and discriminatory laws and norms that prevent women from owning property, being educated, and making meaningful decisions about their own lives--such as whether and when to marry or have children. These often violate their most basic rights and are magnified and multiplied by poverty and lack of education. This groundbreaking book distills vast data and hundreds of studies to shed new light on deprivations and constraints facing the voice and agency of women and girls worldwide, and on the associated costs for individuals, families, communities, and global development. The volume presents major new findings about the patterns of constraints and overlapping deprivations and focuses on several areas key to women s empowerment: freedom from violence, sexual and reproductive health and rights, ownership of land and housing, and voice and collective action. It highlights promising reforms and interventions from around the world and lays out an urgent agenda for governments, civil society, development agencies, and other stakeholders, including a call for greater investment in data and knowledge to benchmark progress.
Download or read book Surviving Girlhood written by Rachel Beddoe and published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. This book was released on 2012-11-15 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Teenage girls can be mean. Often stemming from poor self-awareness, self-esteem and lack of relationship skills, complex friendship dynamics can be difficult to unravel and bullying can be hard to resolve. Surviving Girlhood provides a unique resource for preventing girl bullying by addressing the root causes and helping girls to be strong, positive individuals. Part 1 covers the facts on girl bullying, how to understand it, and the particular complexity of girls. Part 2 includes over 60 tried-and-tested activities that will help girls understand their needs, values, beliefs and influences as drivers for their behaviour. Through five key themes, from 'Being Me' to 'Conflict Resolution', they will also build self-awareness, self-esteem, and strong relationship skills. This photocopiable resource will be an invaluable tool for teachers, youth workers, counsellors, youth offending teams, behavioural specialists and all those working with girls aged 11--16.
Download or read book Cracking the code written by UNESCO and published by UNESCO Publishing. This book was released on 2017-09-04 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report aims to 'crack the code' by deciphering the factors that hinder and facilitate girls' and women's participation, achievement and continuation in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education and, in particular, what the education sector can do to promote girls' and women's interest in and engagement with STEM education and ultimately STEM careers.
Download or read book The Moment of Lift written by Melinda Gates and published by Flatiron Books. This book was released on 2019-04-23 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “In her book, Melinda tells the stories of the inspiring people she’s met through her work all over the world, digs into the data, and powerfully illustrates issues that need our attention—from child marriage to gender inequity in the workplace.” — President Barack Obama “The Moment of Lift is an urgent call to courage. It changed how I think about myself, my family, my work, and what’s possible in the world. Melinda weaves together vulnerable, brave storytelling and compelling data to make this one of those rare books that you carry in your heart and mind long after the last page.” — Brené Brown, Ph.D., author of the New York Times #1 bestseller Dare to Lead “Melinda Gates has spent many years working with women around the world. This book is an urgent manifesto for an equal society where women are valued and recognized in all spheres of life. Most of all, it is a call for unity, inclusion and connection. We need this message more than ever.” — Malala Yousafzai "Melinda Gates's book is a lesson in listening. A powerful, poignant, and ultimately humble call to arms." — Tara Westover, author of the New York Times #1 bestseller Educated A debut from Melinda Gates, a timely and necessary call to action for women's empowerment. “How can we summon a moment of lift for human beings – and especially for women? Because when you lift up women, you lift up humanity.” For the last twenty years, Melinda Gates has been on a mission to find solutions for people with the most urgent needs, wherever they live. Throughout this journey, one thing has become increasingly clear to her: If you want to lift a society up, you need to stop keeping women down. In this moving and compelling book, Melinda shares lessons she’s learned from the inspiring people she’s met during her work and travels around the world. As she writes in the introduction, “That is why I had to write this book—to share the stories of people who have given focus and urgency to my life. I want all of us to see ways we can lift women up where we live.” Melinda’s unforgettable narrative is backed by startling data as she presents the issues that most need our attention—from child marriage to lack of access to contraceptives to gender inequity in the workplace. And, for the first time, she writes about her personal life and the road to equality in her own marriage. Throughout, she shows how there has never been more opportunity to change the world—and ourselves. Writing with emotion, candor, and grace, she introduces us to remarkable women and shows the power of connecting with one another. When we lift others up, they lift us up, too.
Download or read book No More Mean Girls written by Katie Hurley and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2018-01-30 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this Queen Bees and Wannabes for the elementary and middle school set, child and adolescent psychotherapist Katie Hurley shows parents of young girls how to nip mean girl behavior in the bud. Once upon a time, mean girls primarily existed in high school, while elementary school-aged girls spent hours at play and enjoyed friendships without much drama. But in this fast-paced world in which young girls are exposed to negative behaviors on TV and social media from the moment they enter school, they are also becoming caught up in social hierarchies much earlier. No More Mean Girls is a guide for parents to help their young daughters navigate tricky territories such as friendship building, creating an authentic self, standing up for themselves and others, and expressing themselves in a healthy way. The need to be liked by others certainly isn't new, but this generation of girls is growing up in an age when the "like" button shows the world just how well-liked they are. When girls acknowledge that they possess positive traits that make them interesting, strong, and likeable, however, the focus shifts and their self-confidence soars; "likes" lose their importance. This book offers actionable steps to help parents empower young girls to be kind, confident leaders who work together and build each other up.
Download or read book Schoolgirls written by Peggy Orenstein and published by Doubleday Books. This book was released on 1994 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In 1990, the American Association of University Women conducted a ground-breaking poll that highlighted how, as young girls reach adolescence, their self-esteem plummets. The conclusion of the study (an investigation that involved over three thousand girls and boys between the ages of nine and fifteen and cut across ethnic and regional lines) was alarming: there is a crisis in this country regarding the way we educate our daughters." "In spite of the changes in women's roles in society - and in the lives of their own mothers - many American girls still fall into traditional patterns of low self-image and self-censorship. Girls begin first grade with the same levels of skill and ambition as boys, but, all too often, by the time they reach high school their doubts have crowded out their dreams. They emerge from adolescence with reduced expectations of life, and much less confidence in themselves and in their abilities than boys have. In SchoolGirls, journalist Peggy Orenstein presents the human side of the study's disturbing statistics, using an accessible, narrative approach to explore the influences of home, school, and society on adolescent female self-esteem and the difference between how boys and girls are raised to think about themselves." "Through detailed and lively anecdotes - obtained during a year spent with eighth graders at two California schools, as well as interviews with their parents and teachers - Orenstein brings to life the AAUW's profoundly important findings. At Weston Middle School, we meet Lisa, who believes a girl's weight is more important than her intelligence; Suzy, who decides she is "too cute to be a lawyer"; and Evie, who proclaims herself to be a feminist yet tolerates sexual harassment by a popular boy. At Audubon Middle School, however, where the predominantly African-American and Latina girls struggle with pressures forced upon them by their gender, race, and low socioeconomic status, we meet LaRhonda and April, whose confidence in themselves outside the classroom clashes inside its walls with a hidden curriculum designed to "subdue them into disengaged silence." Marta, a Latina almost unnoticed by her teachers and overprotected by her parents, considers undergoing a sexually abusive gang initiation rite in order to gain some measure of acceptance." "An essential read for everyone concerned about gender equity, SchoolGirls shows how the media and our educational system are shortchanging our children. It is a book that can inspire us to change the way we treat girls and the way we educate girls: ultimately, this is a book with the potential to improve the status of women in this country."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Download or read book Anti Bias Education for Young Children and Ourselves written by Louise Derman-Sparks and published by . This book was released on 2020-04-07 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anti-bias education begins with you! Become a skilled anti-bias teacher with this practical guidance to confronting and eliminating barriers.
Download or read book Ragazze Club Jr written by Lindsay Lea Behl and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Self-esteem is how a person feels about him or herself. A young girl’s self-esteem starts out strong; they believe they are beautiful and that they can do anything. As a girl gets older, her self-esteem has a greater chance of lowering. By the time a young girls grows into an adult woman, she is almost certain to have a drop in her self-esteem or body image. Only 4% of women in the world consider themselves beautiful (Dove, 2004). Working together with families, this research project lays out a school-based program for teachers or other role-models to address the need for building up self-esteem in young girls. The project is called, Ragazze Club Jr. It is modeled after a successful after-school program that has been in place in elementary schools for the past few years. The target population for this program is girls in the third grade. Current research indicates that in western society, a girl’s self-esteem peaks at the age of nine and then plummets through her adolescent years (NYC Child Study Center, 2012). This program looks at research in the areas of friendship, media, family relationships and bullying. Although there are other factors that can influence a young girl’s self-esteem, these areas seem to be some of the most prevalent areas young girls are struggling with today. The goal of Ragazze Club Jr. is to intervene before a girl starts to develop low self-esteem. In the program, girls will learn about ways they can stay strong and positive through fun interactive lessons taught by teachers or other female role-models.
