Research-Based
Programming

Programs are offered in schools all across Leeds and Grenville, as part of the regular school day. Last school year 9 schools from two local school boards partnered with Girls Inc. to offer students in their schools this opportunity. Programs are available for all age groups for 15-25 girls. To find out how to bring Girls Inc. to your school please contact Girls Inc. at (613) 345-3295.

Girls Inc. Friendly PEERsuasion

The Girls Inc. Friendly PEERsuasion program helps girls build their skills and knowledge for resisting negative pressure, enhance their communication skills and body image, analyze media messages that glamorize substance use, and learn to recognize and manage stress in healthy ways.

The program consists of 10-1 hour sessions, delivered to groups of 10-25 Grade 5-6 and Grade 7-9 girls on a weekly basis.

This program has been correlated with the Ontario Curriculum and is being evaluated locally. The curriculum correlation and the evaluation results from the pilot sites are available upon request.

Economic Literacy

The Girls Inc. Economic Literacy Program enhances girls’ financial competence and confidence, empowers girls to recognize early on that they can exercise control over their financial future, and promotes within girls a sense of economic justice.

Through Girls Inc. Economic Literacy, girls learn about money and the economy, including how to manage, invest, and save money and how to help others through philanthropy. As girls explore how the economy affects everyone locally and globally, they develop skills critical to being financially savvy and becoming economically independent adults. The following core components give girls a foundation for economically independent adulthood and an understanding of key economic concepts at the individual, family, community, national, and global levels and of the impact that girls can have.

She’s on the Money
This program uses games, role-playing, art projects, and field trips to build girls’ skills for identifying and counting money and to increase their understanding of basic concepts and topics such as using banks, saving for the future, planning for a career, differentiating between wants and needs, donating and volunteering, comparison shopping, taxes and government services, and global economics.

She’s on the money consists of 10 – 1 hour sessions delivered to groups of 10-25 of Grade 1-3 girls on a weekly basis

Dollars, Sense, and Me
This program gives girls the opportunity to explore topics like managing money and investing and will begin to build their skills for a financially independent future.  Role plays, art projects and group discussions to build girls’ skills for identifying and counting money, increase their understanding of basic concepts like banks, saving for the future, encourage girls to differentiate between wants and needs, and think about concepts like donating and volunteering
Topics include currency, supply and demand, entrepreneurship, paid and unpaid work, volunteerism, budgeting, taxes and government spending, and smart consumerism.

Dollars, Sense, and Me consists of 8 1-hour sessions delivered to groups of 10-25 of Grade 4-6 girls on a weekly basis

Equal Earners, Savvy Spenders
The Girls Inc. Equal Earners, Savvy Spenders helps girls learn broad financial and economic concepts, such as wants and needs, career development, banking skills, loan applications, credit cards, investment risks vs. return, consumer tips, media literacy, labour law, taxes and government services, philanthropy, global economics, and fitting a career into a full, well-rounded life.

Equal Earners, Savvy Spenders consists of 10 1- hour sessions delivered to groups of 10-25 Grade 7-9 girls on a weekly basis.

Futures and Options
The Girls Inc. Futures and Options program prepares girls for entering the world of work by helping them examine topics such as attitudes and values about money, career strategies, economic justice and workers’ rights, paycheque deductions, responsible use of credit and avoiding predatory lenders, renting versus buying, and investing.

Futures and options consist of 10-1 hour sessions delivered to groups of 10-25 Grade 10-12 girls on a weekly basis.

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.

Be Bold
Be BOLD, for girls ages 6 to 8, 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.

This program consists of 8-1 hour sessions delivered to groups of 7-18 girls on a weekly basis.

Living Safe & Strong
Living Safe & Strong, for girls ages 12 to 14, continues discussion 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.

This program consists of 12-1 hour sessions delivered to groups of 10-25 girls on a weekly basis.

Operation SMART

Girls Inc. Operation SMART® develops girls’ enthusiasm for and skills in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM). Through hands-on activities, girls explore, ask questions, persist, and solve problems. By interacting with women and men pursuing STEM careers, girls come to view these careers as exciting and realistic options for themselves.

Girls Inc. programming is offered in community spaces throughout Leeds-Grenville, allowing close to 400 girls to participate in the Girls Inc. experience in their home community.  In the past programs have been offered in Athens, Brockville, Portland, Prescott, Kemptville, Lansdowne, Spencerville, Cardinal and Gananoque.

Programs are a girls-only environment for children aged 6-13 years old

All programs are from 9 am to 4 pm – No before or aftercare is available

To Register

1. Complete the following form Program Registration
2. Once you have completed the Program Registration we will send you an email to confirm your registration and any other information needed.

Payment

1. We accept e-transfer to admin@girlsinc-uppercanada.org
2. Credit card over the phone
3. If you would like to discuss our full or partial subsidies please call or email

Virtual Programing

February 1st, 2024

Location: Brockville
Theme: Youth Opportunities in the Arts Workshop for youth ages 10-16

April 26th, 2024

Location: TBD
Theme: TBD

May 31st, 2024

Location: TBD
Theme: TBD

Our workshops for girls in Grades 1-12 cover topics including, but not limited to, body image, stress, media literacy, healthy relationships, social aggression and so much more! Workshops are conducted by trained Girls Inc. staff with groups of 15-25 participants.Fee per workshop is $50. Call or email for more information!