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IT WORKS!!! YWCA Durham in Ontario, Canada has been successfully holding workshops for girls since our initial training and certification in 2002! Check out Girls' Evaluations from Durham! The best part is knowing we're not alone. I chose this as the best thing because before I felt no one else was feeling the way I felt. I think everyone should find their true self. I would tell my friends to come to the GSO program because it helped me to see that I don't need to be cute to be somebody and I want my friends to understand that, too. It was fun and informative. You get helpful advice and confidence to be yourself. I can't think of anything else I want to talk about. I think all my questions were covered. On a scale of 1 to 10 (1 being scared and 10 being perfectly safe), I'd say 10. I felt like I could be myself, and I wasn't nervous. The readings sort of taught me I could stand up for myself. AND THIS IS ME NOW. Contact us for an application form All our Training and Certification is Individualized In response to requests from women and organizations, Andrea developed a train-the-trainers program to certify adult organizers, leaders and trainers of Girls Speak Out program workshops for circles of girls ages 7 and up. Andrea currently participates in in-person and long-distance trainings to certify individuals, organizations, schools and groups worldwide. The training includes strategies, activities and research in its curricula that is based on our two-workshop program and individualized to meet your needs; our Train-the-Trainers handbook is an overview and compilation of lessons taught and learned in workshops and meetings with experts on child development and gender. Activities and topics are tailored to meet your girls' needs as we expand upon the Handbook and help you create your own program, which is one key to our success. If you want to improve your relationship with girls, including your own girlhood, and as a mentor, mother, family member, supporter or if you work and/or live with girls as a teacher or tribal/community member, we have individualized and group training programs and workshops that value and incorporate your ideas, feelings, history and beliefs. If you want to offer your own Girls Speak Out Worldwide workshops as an individual or as part of your organization, then our Train-the-Trainers Certification process can enable you to make it happen no matter where you live. Why? Here's a proven way to improve girls' lives that has lifetime benefits. BTW, you will find new ways to make your life happier when you join us. What do you learn? You learn why we do what we do, what we do--our content-and how we do it--our strategies and follow-up. You also learn organizing and parenting/mentoring skills. What does it cost? We have a sliding scale depending on your experience, affiliations, intended use and plans for workshops. Installment payments can be arranged. No one is turned away for financial reasons. Step-by-step Certification entitles you to offer workshops to ongoing groups and, if you choose, to train others using our name, materials and activities. Training Procedure: 1. Pre-Training Questionairre Submitted and Evaluated 2. Fee and training schedule determined based on particular use of GSO program 3. Handbook on organzing, fundraising, content and support e-mailed; content and activities added to meet particular needs 4. Recruitment and venue identification begins via e-mail and phone 5. Your workshops are designed with and girls and women participants complete evaluation of your initial workshops 6. Evaluations submitted to GSO for review 7. Certification certificates issued to offer GSO workshops that originated with our collaboration and posting of information on GSO website 8. Supplemental certification to train women and/or girls to offer GSO workshops is applied for 9. Train-the-trainers' certification issued 10. Ongoing workshop schedules sent to GSO Foundation as condition of ongoing certification 11. Networking with initiatives. trainers and groups associated with GSO |
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| Some Leaders' Stories *Sharon Ross, the record holder for workshop leaders, is at the YWCA Durham. ** Jane, founder of Girls Speak Out Kenya, came to the USA as part of a program recognizing international grassroots leaders, and founds Kiberan Women for Peace and Fairness after violence occurs (click here). ***Michele, a counselor in a Canadian public high school, is using our curriculum in a GSO club. ****Anne, a teacher in a Seattle, Washington suburb, is refocusing her after-school workshops to explore GSO's gender and power approach with high-school girls and women. *****Natalie, a social worker from New Orleans, trained to work with girls in Tanzania alongside Regina, another volunteer with MadeA who lives locally. ******Florence, Girls Speak Out Cameroon's leader, participated in a two-week Training of Trainers on Gender and Non-Violence for selected women peace activists by the Africa Desk of the Women Peace Makers Program of the International Fellowship of Reconciliation headquarted in the Netherlands. Click for media about one of our trainers click here).  Girls in Kibera, Kenya, April 2009  Our book takes you through workshops, and offers curriculm, activites and literature to read with and to girls. In-person Training: Flexible and individual Distance Training: Length determined by your schedule and experience, one-on-one online and phone support, handbook included. Group Training: Up to six women can be trained in a workshop. Contact gspeakout@aol.com to be trained. |