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Since 1998, GirlSource has been providing meaningful employment and leadership opportunities for low-income, high-school-age girls in San Francisco.
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| GirlSource featured in Gaurdian's "Best of the Bay" |
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We were pleasantly surprised to open the San Francisco Bay Guardian last week to see GirlSource honored in the editor's pick for "Best Girl-to-Girl Support" in their annual "Best of the Bay" issue. SFBG describes the issue as "our 34th annual celebration of the people, places, and things
that make living here awesome with a capital 'yay.'"
Here's what they said about us:"BEST GIRL-TO-GIRL SUPPORT
It takes a girl to understand the issues other girls face today
regarding relationships, body image, pregnancy, and parents who don't
understand, or can't help, or worse, abuse them. It also takes a girl
who's worn those shoes to know how to help another girl get where she
wants to go. For the past 10 years, the young women who run GirlSource
have been training local low-income teens for their future, by teaching
them how to build a Web site, digitally edit photos, take leadership
roles, and express themselves through writing. The results are
impressive. After receiving SAT prep and counseling on all the teen
issues that can thwart potential co-eds, most of the girls
participating in the program go on to attend college, where GirlSource
continues to support them. Some of them come back to offer peer
counseling to new girls coming up, thus completing an important cycle
in creating better community."
Thanks Bay Guardian! |
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GirlSource ED interviewed on JOB Radio!
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 Leticia Hernandez tells Larry Olson why it's important for young women to have a space of their own at GirlSource
LO: What do you get by being in a single-sex environment? What happens when you remove guys from the equation and get the teen-aged gals together? What does that do?
LH: Well, it allows the young women to feel comfortable and a little bit safe and less self-conscious. That element of unpredictability and distraction is removed. It's not to say that they can't coexist, but in what we're trying to do- getting them to reflect on themselves and face difficult issues and testify to those issues, and then make a plan for their future- that's all really heavy, serious stuff. I think they really open up and are willing to do the work and be vulnerable when they are just amongst themselves. Because every young girl, no matter where she comes from, you get girls together and you're going to have things to talk about! I think it is really vital.
JO: Girls talking... I don't believe it! You guys don't talk! Stop it... You're putting me on, right?
LH: [laughs] Look- There's a reason 'Sex in the City' was so popular! Everyone can relate to the need for girl time, girl space... just girls, ok?
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You're Invited: Digital Stories Screening
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Summer Participants showcase their work!
  
Young women participating in our Summer Technology and Leadership Program will present their Digital Stories to family, friends, and GirlSource supporters. If you'd like to join us, please RSVP to mary@girlsource.org.
The Details:
TLP Digital Stories Screening
August 21, 2008, 6 - 8 pm
1550 Bryant Street (in the penthouse)
free and open to GirlSource supporters
Please RSVP
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Visit our YouTube Channel!
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Digital Stories for the WholeWideWorld to see!
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Thanks very much for your support!
Sincerely,
The Board, Staff, and Young Women of GirlSource
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