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 disadvantaged youth and teenage girls.
An intervention to resources; extracurricular activities.
PROGRAM OBJECTIVES
To promote positive youth development by establishing relationships in which the mentor and the mentee can engage in mutually 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 helps 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, character education, and social emotional learning and coping strategies to help them evolve as young adults. Engage in interactive and fun activities. Role-play scenarios that model conflict resolutions. Ask questions, and express their thoughts or feelings freely, without judgment.
TRANSFORMATIONAL HOUR
We use a unique curriculum, "I AM!" to provide affirmations and truths to help girls know who they are. During this transformational hour, girls are empowered to speak their truth, own their truth, affirm their truth, define their truth, believe their truth, and live their truth out loud. Another vital part of this hour is journaling.
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 or the perfect segue to an elevated mindset. Our overall goal here is to turn the life skills we teach 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 themselves 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, activities, books... to ensure 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 include: Pine Ridge K-12 Alternative Center, Colbert and Plantation Elementary. Parkway and Nova Middle School.
Theodore R. and Thelma A. Gibson Charter
Our Extended impact
Thanks to our unmatched mentoring style, and positive influence on the youth (students) we serve. We are overwhelmed with requests from male students, the school's administration, staff, and parents to add a mentoring component for boys. In 2023, we evaluated our impact and how we may extend our services to boys.