Girl empowerment curriculum for educational success! What is the Go Girlz Community Initiative? We share power across these positions.
The Go Girlz Community Initiative is a program the Women's Resource Center at the University of Utah developed in 2004 designed to teach empowerment, through an interactive curriculum, as the key to academic success. We simultaneously address the stated goal of the University of Utah to recruit and retain women and minority students. Curriculum-- 8 workshops per academic semester
Self (Advocacy,
Empowerment)
Identity & Resiliency
Self-Care
Community (Advocacy, Involvement, Empowerment)
Healthy Relationships
Bullying
Personal Power (Advocacy, Scholarship, Empowerment)
Putting ourselves out there
College Awareness
Methods:
Our program applies various methods of evaluation, maintains consistent goals and tracks the completion of individual and group efforts. We follow methodology across disciplines including: Media Literacy workshops, Higher Education Awareness & Career/Major Exploration workshops, and multiple literacy introduction via poetry, hip-hop, pop-culture references and mindfulness practices. Pedagogy:
While our programs seeks to motivate participants to reimagine educational futures, we acknowledge that participants have many other options. With this in mind, our programming centers on the idea that we create spaces where knowledge sharing is valued. This with the goal to empower students to reflect upon their positions in a classroom (as facilitators and as learners) to each consider themselves as holders of knowledge (Delgado Bernal, 2002) and to rediscover their love for learning and creativity. We assume that through their own experiential knowledge (Yosso, Villalpando, Delgado Bernal and Solorzano, 2001) girls have acquired the ability to be resilient, flexible, creative and deserving of being recruited and mentored into higher education. Through our curriculum, we seek to awaken students’ consciousness of personal power and agency while reframing participants’ ability to feel good about themselves, make healthy choices in their life, and be positive members of their communities. The pathway to higher education we create is reciprocal, inter-generational and fluid. And actively seek to do this according, to the needs of participants and also facilitators at each step.
11/04/2019
We are happy to announce a new partnership with University Neighborhood Partners and the Go Girlz Community Initiative. Please help us spread the word!
A new open Go Girlz group will meet at the Hartland Partnership Center ( 1578 W 1700 S, Salt Lake City, Utah). Meetings will be held on Thursdays from 3- 5 pm starting next week (please see attached flyer).
Today we talked about Love. Including self- love and created some community love mosaics of what that means for each of us & collectively. So much creativity. We’re gonna finish them up next week.
10/14/2019
Our first GG session of the semester was great! We are so excited to be back. Visit our site for more info on how to sign up: womenscenter.utah.edu/initiatives/go-girlz.php LINK IN BIO
10/09/2019
We are restarting our Go Girlz workshops next week
(October 14- Dec 5) at the following schools:
*6th Grade – Middle School*
Glendale Middle School 6th Only
invitation through school counselor contact: [email protected]
MW Jackson Elementary School 6th Only
Wednesdays 3 – 4:30 pm in Room 23, this is an open group
*7th and 8th Grade – Middle School*
Northwest Middle School After School
Mondays 3:30 – 5 pm in Room 1308, this is an open group
Glendale Middle School After School
Wednesdays 3 – 4:30 pm in the Front Office, this is an open group
*9th – 12th Grade – High School*
Hartland Partnership Center
Thursdays, 3 pm – 5pm in Room 102, this is an open group
Go Girlz is starting up again for the Fall semester! We are excited to connect with all of you. Visit our website for more information about sites and locations.
Thank you so much to all those who connected with Go Girlz this summer!
06/19/2019
Love letters to ourselves & yoga. It’s Wednesday, we’re half way through our first week of summer camp! Our first one ever and so far it’s been great! 🥰 if you’re interested in joining us in July and/or August we have room for a few more participants.
We want to say a special thanks to our amazing photobooth sponsor TapSnap 1009! The booth was a hit! If you took a picture, visit the link below to find your images.
Thank you so much to everyone that came out tonight! We will post a link to the photo booth pictures tomorrow so everyone can download their pictures. Congrats to all those graduating & to the I Ask art contest winners! @ The University of Utah College of Social Work
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