GIRLS ARE EXPERIENCING UNPRECEDENTED STRESS AND STRUGGLES
You Can Make a Lasting, Positive Impact with the PowerUp Girls for Life Curriculum
Youth-serving organizations of all kinds can support girls' well-being and success using these evidence-based, fun, easy-to-use life skill sessions
The PowerUp Girls for Life curriculum is video-based, with session videos providing teaching segments, built-in discussion times, and animated instructions for fun, active games and activities that enhance learning while building positive culture among girls and between them and adult leaders.
The curriculum's 27 online sessions are 30-minutes long on average with built-in flexibility to serve one or many students within your time schedule. Sessions require minimal training, supplies, and preparation such as printing documents provided online. Youth Empowerment Group provides brief remote training for instructors so you can hit the ground running.
Curriculum topics are shown by research to be crucial for girls' mental, social, and behavioral health, safety, equality, healthy relationships, and educational and life success today.
Hear Girls Talk About Struggles Faced Growing Up Today and Their Empowering Advice to Other Girls
Listen to courageous young female voices from Youth Empowerment Group's national film project interviewing youth around the nation. The project was highlighted in a cover story and short film in Time Magazine.
PowerUp Girls for Life Curriculum Sections
The innovative, evidence-based PowerUp Girls for Life curriculum is divided into 6 topical sections that are referred to as courses on this site.
Click the images to view descriptions of lessons provided in that section. You may license use of sections separately for one year, or get the entire curriculum at a discounted rate by clicking the bundle button below!
To get the first two sessions for FREE, click that button below the section images.
Empowering girls with this curriculum makes your job caring for them easier!
Experts designed these video-based sessions to be easy and flexible for youth-serving organizations of all kinds to support girls:
· Teach one student or large groups
· Do sessions in any order
· 30 to 45-minute lessons with activities can be divided to fit time schedules (longer sessions provide multiple activity options)
· Online session pages contain printable instructor guides, student handouts, game cards, and activity sheets
Session videos provide:
· 10- to 15-minute teaching segments on today's crucial topics
· Discussion time introduced by a rap song
· Top takeaway messages (provided on student handouts)
· Animated activity or game instructions with timers
Student handouts provide:
· Definitions of topical terms
· Note-taking room and top takeaway messages
· Resources for support and continued learning
PowerUp Girls for Life video life skill lessons for 5th-12th graders are based on the science of learning and give girls practical tools for:
- Self-esteem and confidence without entitlement
- Positive body image
- Safe social media management
- Coping with stress
- Bullying defense and reduction
- Empathy and assertiveness
- Healthy emotional expression, reaching out for help
- Personal and school safety
- Healthy relationships, rejecting drama and manipulation
- Sexism and sexual harassment protection
- Problem and conflict-solving
- Life-long learning and academic success
- All CASEL competencies and more
while building positive culture and communication!
For schools or youth-serving organizations with multiple users, you can get a discount quote by emailing info@youthempowermentgroup.org.
Parents Greatly Value This Education
100% of parents surveyed at pilot programs said they would recommend the program to other parents, that their girls enjoyed attending, and that they believed the program taught their girls useful life-skills.
ABOUT THE CURRICULUM'S CREATORS
The Nonprofit Youth Empowerment Group (YEG)
The nonprofit Youth Empowerment Group (YEG) is comprised of volunteer professionals in mental health, education, and medicine in Colorado.
After creating their premier PowerUp Girls for Life program in 2018, YEG expanded to produce a new parallel, innovative video-based mental and social health life skill curriculum (or program) for 4th through 12th-grade boys and girls named PowerUp.
YEG also reproduced this enhanced video-based version of PowerUp Girls for Life.
Youth Empowerment Group's nonprofit mission
To promote mental, behavioral, and social health, equality, personal and school safety, healthy relationships, and academic and life success in youth by creating and providing easy-to-use, engaging, evidence-based life skill curriculums to schools, youth organizations, community groups, and families.