The Girls Circle is  a structured support group for girls from 8-18 years old.

 

The program integrates relational theory, resiliency practices, and skills training in a specific format designed to increase positive connection, personal and collective strengths, and competence in girls. (and it's FUN !!)

 

Girls Circles are formed with a group of 6-8  girls who meet weekly, bi weekly or monthly, depending on the girls schedules.  Girls Circles can be formed anywhere the girls can meet! (Community rooms, parks, church fellowship hall or in your home!) Each session the trained Girls Circle facilitator leads a group of girls through a format that includes each girl taking turns talking and listening to one another respectfully about their concerns and interests. The girls express themselves further through creative or focused activities such as role playing, drama, journaling, poetry, drama, dance, drawing, collage, clay, and so on. Gender specific themes and topics are introduced which relate to the girls’ lives, such as being a girl, trusting ourselves, friendships, body image, goals, sexuality, drugs, alcohol, tobacco, competition, and decision-making.

 

 

 

 

The Girls Circle format is applied to programs in areas such as schools, peer leadership, health education, juvenile justice, economic literacy, outdoor adventure, athletics, school advisory groups, pregnancy prevention, boys and girls clubs, scouting groups, gang-prevention, and substance abuse prevention in such settings as schools, agencies, group homes, parish halls, clinics, and homes. In this way, the Girls Circle provides the opportunity for authentic relationships within a context of a girl's own setting and community.