We train Youth, coach parents, and transform lives
ASPIRING BEAUTIFUL & CONFIDENT GIRLS, INC.
PROGRAM OVERVIEW
Youth & School-based Mentoring.
An intervention for foster, youth and teenage girls being raised by a grandparent or single parent.
An intervention for at-risk girls, and girls of prisoners. An intervention for neglected, homeless or disadvantage youth and teenage girls.
An intervention to resources; extracurricular activities.
PROGRAM OBJECTIVES
To promote positive youth development, by establishing relationships to which the mentor and the mentee can engage in mutual enjoyable activities.
To match youth and mentor by personality, experiences, and circumstances so both can relate. To foster relationships that are built on trust, provide good leadership and a role model they can emulate.
GROUP MENTORING
We believe Group Mentoring help girls establish relationships, improve social skills, and form sisterhoods, which give them a sense of belonging. Group mentoring can also help girls within an all-girls group mentoring program hold each other accountable to a standard or commitment.
HOW IT WORK
Aspiring Beautiful & Confident Girls meet with their mentor, in a safe space, weekly, for 1 hour after school, or during the school day, at the implemented time, or on a Saturday for 2 hours, for a total of 12 weeks.
Our School-Based Mentoring runs from October - April.
Trainings/WORKSHOPS
Girls receive life skills and character education to help them evolve as young adults. They engage in interactive and fun activities, role play scenarios that model conflict resolutions, and social emotional learning and coping strategies, ask questions, and express their thoughts or feelings freely, without judgement.
TRANSFORMATIONAL HOUR
We use a unique curriculum "I AM!" A Prevention & Intervention to help girls develop character, rid low self-esteem, overcome peer pressure and social anxiety, build confidence, remove labels, cultivate healthy relationships, take responsibility, avoid being bullied, and identify their strengths and weaknesses. Another vital part of this hour is journaling, and the use of affirmations.
Field Trips or Special Activities
Our field trips and activities expose our mentees to new things, places, environments, and experiences. For some, it is the pathway to self-discovery. However, activities like our yoga class and spa day is the perfect segue into our mental health component, which addresses self-care, and the overall mind, body and spirit. Our overall goal here, is to turn the life skills taught, into a tangible experience.
GIRL TALK
Through our topics and candid conversations, we build character, confidence, integrity, trust, and empathy. Our talks are age appropriate for both, our elementary and middle schoolers. Girls explore "Fun & Interesting Facts About Girls from Childhood to Adulthood" from volume 3 of our unique curriculum.
Support and Assistance
This is Us! Our Home, School, Community Component
We provide support and assistance to our girls in need.
This includes preparation for school, grooming, care bags, and guidance to resources that may extend to their families.
We seek sponsors for special trainings, classes, activities, books... to assure that our girls succeed.
snacks
We provide a light snack during our after school, and Saturday meetups. We do this considering the time between lunch in school and the extra hour they remain at school.
Our impact
Through Our School-Based Mentoring we've enrolled and served over 500 students, from economically and socially undeserved communities.
Some of our partnering schools includes:
Pine Ridge K-12 Alternative Center,
Colbert Elementary, Plantation Elementary,
Parkway & Nova Middle School
Theodore R. and Thelma A. Gibson Charter School
Our Extended impact
Our success and positive influence on the students lead to many requests to add a mentoring program for boys.
Such request came from male students, administration, staff, and parents. The question was asked, can our unique "I AM! Curriculum and strategies curated by Michelliah's Way work too for boys? And the answer was yes. With that said, it took a few years of pondering over the ideal, while waiting on that still voice to lead. After which, we launched (Oct. 2023).
A group that was only to be about 15, to explore the vision, quickly grew to a waitlist of boys desiring to be a part.
Backed by a host of community supporters.