Project BOLD

Through Girls Inc. Project BOLD,  girls learn skills and strategies to lead safer lives in their homes, in relationships, in their communities, and online. Girls learn specific self-defense techniques and how to seek out and talk to caring adults about personal and gender-based violence. Older girls also take on a community action project to advocate for a safer world for all women and girls. 

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Program Modules

Be Bold (ages 6-8)
This program builds girls’ skills and personal power for avoiding or dealing with hurtful or dangerous situations and assists them in identifying resources that contribute to their safety. 
Action for Safety (ages 9-11)
This program builds negotiation, assertiveness, and self-defense skills. It facilitates open and honest discussions to increase girls’ understanding about interpersonal violence as well as to encourage, support, and lessen the fear and isolation of girls experiencing violence
Living Safe & Strong (ages 12-14)
This program continues discussions of gender violence issues, reinforces and provides additional safety strategies and self-defense skills for teen girls, and introduces them to community experts and resources. Girls also develop and conduct community action projects addressing violence issues important to them.
What a Girls Wants (ages 15-18)
In this workshop, girls discuss healthy and unhealthy relationships, examine relationship violence, and determine strategies for developing and maintaining safe and healthy relationships.