Changing the cultureChanging the culture

because girls deserve a better because girls deserve a better worldworld

MissionMission:To create opportunities, develop programs and provide services that empower girls and women.

VisionVision:All girls and women experience equality, independence and safety in their everyday lives.

Hardy Girls Healthy Hardy Girls Healthy WomenWomen

• Adventure Girls• Girls Coalition Groups• Girls Advisory Board• Girls Unlimited!

Conference• Girls Rock! Weekend• Ugly Ducklings• Rim County Outreach• Training Institute

ProgramsPrograms

Adventure GirlsAdventure Girls

““I think girls can I think girls can do what boys can do what boys can do and boys can do and boys can do what girls do”do what girls do”

Adventure Girl, age Adventure Girl, age 88

Adventure GirlsAdventure Girls

““I liked Adventure I liked Adventure Girls because it is Girls because it is helpful to girls to helpful to girls to realize they are brave realize they are brave and strong.”and strong.”Adventure Girl, age 8, at Adventure Girl, age 8, at law enforcement eventlaw enforcement event

Adventure GirlsAdventure Girls

Adventure Girls Adventure Girls gives girls the gives girls the opportunity to opportunity to meet once a meet once a month with month with women who are women who are defying gender defying gender stereotypes and stereotypes and challenging challenging notions of what a notions of what a girl or woman girl or woman “should” do or “should” do or be.be.

True Beauty True Beauty 4th of July Float4th of July Float

Girls’ Coalition Girls’ Coalition GroupsGroups

Groups meet weekly Groups meet weekly to create a coalition to create a coalition of girl allies and to of girl allies and to reduce girl fighting reduce girl fighting by discussing media by discussing media literacy and how to literacy and how to proactively change proactively change the culture through the culture through social action social action projects.projects.

Girls Coalition Girls Coalition GroupsGroups

““Girls’ Group was Girls’ Group was really fun really fun because you got because you got to talk about to talk about anything you anything you wanted to and if wanted to and if something was something was bothering you bothering you they understood they understood because they’ve because they’ve been through been through seventh grade seventh grade before.”  before.”  Lindsay, Lindsay, Messalonskee Messalonskee Middle SchoolMiddle School

Girls’ Coalition Girls’ Coalition GroupsGroups

After one group member talked about the sexual violence After one group member talked about the sexual violence she experienced as a child and another expressed the she experienced as a child and another expressed the pain of living with an alcoholic parent, the girls coalition pain of living with an alcoholic parent, the girls coalition group decided they needed to do something to show their group decided they needed to do something to show their support for their sisters and all the other students in their support for their sisters and all the other students in their school who have been the victims of abuse, members of school who have been the victims of abuse, members of alcoholic families, or are living with other kinds of pain alcoholic families, or are living with other kinds of pain and hurt. and hurt.

They initiated a Day of Hope.They initiated a Day of Hope.

Girls Advisory Girls Advisory BoardBoard

GAB is composed of GAB is composed of young women from 8th young women from 8th to 12th grades. GAB to 12th grades. GAB provides opportunities provides opportunities for leadership for leadership experience, engaging in experience, engaging in social action projects, social action projects, and keeping the and keeping the organization current on organization current on challenges facing girls challenges facing girls today.today.

Girls Advisory Girls Advisory BoardBoard

GAB members GAB members at the Hardy at the Hardy Girls Open Girls Open House Love House Love Your Body Your Body Day Day CelebrationCelebration

Girls Advisory Girls Advisory BoardBoard

Girls Unlimited!Girls Unlimited!

Girls in grades 5-8 spend a day Girls in grades 5-8 spend a day broadening their horizons in broadening their horizons in workshops and activities designed to workshops and activities designed to challenge and lead them to develop a challenge and lead them to develop a more critical thinking process about more critical thinking process about the world around them and their place the world around them and their place in it. in it.

Girls Unlimited!Girls Unlimited!

Girls Unlimited!Girls Unlimited!

Girls Rock! Girls Rock! WeekendWeekend

Girls Rock! Girls Rock! Weekend Weekend celebrates celebrates girls voices girls voices in music, art in music, art and and literature.literature.

Ugly DucklingsUgly Ducklings

Inspired by the award-winning play of the same Inspired by the award-winning play of the same name, 'Ugly Ducklings' captures the behind-the-name, 'Ugly Ducklings' captures the behind-the-scenes conversations with the play's fourteen scenes conversations with the play's fourteen female actors as they become the characters in female actors as they become the characters in the play and come to terms with their own the play and come to terms with their own biased behavior.biased behavior.

Ugly DucklingsUgly Ducklings

““This documentary This documentary is right now the is right now the best film on the best film on the planet that planet that confronts us with confronts us with the painful the painful intrapersonal and intrapersonal and interpersonal interpersonal effects on all young effects on all young people of the people of the pervasive sexual pervasive sexual prejudice that we prejudice that we teach them, and the teach them, and the resultant resultant harassment and harassment and bullying, and it does bullying, and it does so with power and so with power and sensitivity.”sensitivity.”

Diane Elze, School Diane Elze, School of Social Work, of Social Work, University of University of BuffaloBuffalo

Rim County Rim County ExpansionExpansion

Hardy Girls has Hardy Girls has launched a 3-launched a 3-year effort to year effort to bring together bring together stakeholders in stakeholders in 6 of Maine’s 6 of Maine’s most most underserved, underserved, rural “rim” rural “rim” counties.counties.

HGHW Training HGHW Training InstituteInstitute

The HGHW Training Institute provides The HGHW Training Institute provides educators, parents, camp professionals, educators, parents, camp professionals, social service and health care providers social service and health care providers research based methods and resources research based methods and resources to create hardiness zones.to create hardiness zones.

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