We provide many resources to help you create hardiness zones in your own communities, schools and homes. We invite you to join us in creating an environment in which girls can grow into strong, healthy women.
With our programs, resources, and seminars, Hardy Girls Healthy Women can help you:
Creating Hardiness Zones Workshop
This 1 1/2-day workshop is designed for adults who want to understand girls' lives in social and relational contexts; to connect with girls on a deeper level through muse relationships; to learn to create hardiness zones in schools, homes, and youth-serving programs; and to have the option of running Hardy Girls Healthy Women Programs. This workshop can be customized for summer camps and other girl-serving programs.
Workshops for Girls
Our interactive workshops for girls were designed based on topics that girls have identified as the important issues in their lives. Through discussion, small-group work, activities, and role play girls explore media representations of girls and women, and investigate where messages about girlfighting, distrust, competition, body image and beauty come from. Girls also learn who profits when they feel bad about themselves, and what they can do as activists to make change. Topics for the workshops include Girlfighting, Media Literacy, Girls as Social Activists, Moving Beyond Cliques & Clubs, Healthy Dating Relationships, and Body Image.
From Adversaries to Allies
Current harassment and bully-prevention programs do little to address the relational and societal realities of girls' lives, or the underlying causes of girlfighting behavior. From Adversaries to Allies builds on 20 years of research about how adolescent girls understand their relationships, and how they experience the world around them. This knowledge has been translated into an effective curriculum authored by Lyn Mikel Brown, Ed.D and Mary Madden, PhD, for addressing girl to girl aggression and bullying. By offering girls a safe space, adult muses, and tools to critically look at media stereotypes, double standards, and divisive messages, girls learn how to support one another in camaraderie while positively affecting the world through social action. Buy From Adversaries to Allies.
Ugly Ducklings Community Action Kit
A cutting edge multi-media resource designed to educate and inspire people to take action against bias-based bullying and harassment of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning (LGBTQ) youth. The Community Action Kit includes an educational documentary film; enhanced interview footage with youth, parents, and educators; tips, discussion questions, activities, and resources for creating safe, equitable, inclusive environments for LGBTQ youth. Learn more about Ugly Ducklings at the Campaign's website
Adventure Girls
In spite of media messages telling us otherwise, we know that girls today want to be bold and adventurous; they want to test the limits, feel strong and confident. A unique program for girls in grades 2nd - 6th, Adventure Girls connects girls to daring women who defy gender stereotypes and pursue their passions despite what society says a good girl or woman should do or be. This product provides you with the information and tools you need to start your own Adventure Girls Program.
Lending Library Check out our Lending Library, which we are continually updating. It's filled with more than 400 books, videos, DVDs, magazines, curricular material and more! You can check them out by stopping by or calling or just hang out on one of our couches and enjoy them.
Lyn Mikel Brown’s Research Lyn’s research focuses on girls’ psychological and social development in diverse contexts, girls’ anger, and girlfighting.
Best and Worst Marketing to Girls Campaigns from 2006
12 Ways to Prevent Girlfighting and Build Girl Allies
Creating Safe, Fair and Responsive Schools
Girlfighting and Bully-Prevention Resources
Packaging Girlhood: Rescuing Our Daughters from Marketers' Schemes
Packaging Girlhood Blog
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Thanks to Hardy Girls...
“Our entire staff was able to better understand the societal pressures and stereotypes that our campers deal with…and how to counteract the impression they leave on our girls. Thank you for your wealth of knowledge." – Tracy St. Onge-May, Director, The Summer Camp
"Ugly Ducklings has provided us with a brilliant film and an information-rich, user-friendly action kit that we can employ with youth in very diverse settings – schools, youth groups, faith communities, shelters, and other residential programs. This documentary is right now the best film on the planet that confronts us with the painful intrapersonal and interpersonal effects on all young people of the pervasive sexual prejudice that we teach them, and the resultant harassment and bullying, and it does so with power and sensitivity." - Diane Elze, School of Social Work, University of Buffalo
Allies Flower created by a Girls’ Coalition Group
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