Girls Incorporated Of Long Island

The Girls Inc. Experience empowers girls to succeed.
Girls Inc. provides girls with trusting mentoring
relationships, a girls-only environment, and research based, hands-on programming. Three critical goals
drive our programming: to help girls achieve healthy
lives, succeed academically, and acquire the life
skills needed to prepare them for adulthood. We
work to ensure that girls have the skills, knowledge,
and support to appreciate and take on a variety of
leadership roles, and be independent thinkers.

The Girls Inc. Experience empowers girls to
succeed. Girls Inc. provides girls with trusting
mentoring relationships, a girls-only environment,
and research-based, hands-on programming. Three
critical goals drive our programming: to help girls
achieve healthy lives, succeed academically, and
aquire the life skills needed to prepare them for
adulthood. We work to ensure that girls have the
skills, knowledge, and support to resist the use of
legal and illicit substances.

Adolescent pregnancy and parenthood present formidable challenges for teens’ development into productive and fulfilled adults. In addition to the physical implications of adolescent pregnancy, the reality is that most teen mothers raise their children as single parents, which may lead to girls not completing high school and thereby being employed in a low wage job. Although the most recent decrease in teen pregnancy rates is promising, the U.S. continues to have the highest teen pregnancy rate among industrialized countries, with Canada’s rate less than half of that of the U.S., but still higher than many industrialized countries. Further, sexually
transmitted disease rates among young women, especially young women of color, is still of great concern.

While communities and policy makers search for effective strategies to address adolescent sexuality issues, most youth and parents say that girls need more comprehensive information relevant to their lives. They not only need this information sooner rather than later—they need appropriate information throughout their development. Programs and efforts that deliver such information need to pay particular attention to gender-specific issues because young women have specific needs in managing sexual relationships and they deal most directly with the consequences of teen pregnancy.

The Girls Inc. Experience empowers girls to succeed.
Girls Inc. provides girls with trusting mentoring
relationships, a girls-only environment, and research based, hands-on programming. Three critical goals
drive our programming: to help girls achieve healthy
lives, succeed academically, and aquire the life skills
needed to prepare them for adulthood. We work to
ensure that girls participate in programs and activities
that support and expand on their school-based learning and engagement. It is also important that girls are motivated to set and achieve educational and career goals, particularly in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM).

The Girls Inc. Experience empowers girls to
succeed. Girls Inc. provides girls with trusting,
mentoring relationships; a girls-only environment,
and research-based, hands-on programming. Three
critical goals drive our programming - that girls lead
healthy lives, succeed academically, and have life
skills needed that prepare them for adulthood. To
meet our goal of girls leading healthy lives, we work
to ensure that girls have the skills, knowledge, and
support to take charge of their health and increase
healthy behaviors throughout their lives.

The Girls Inc. Experience empowers girls to
succeed. Girls Inc. provides girls with trusting
mentoring relationships, a girls-only environment,
and research-based, hands-on programming. Three
critical goals drive our programming: to help girls
achieve healthy lives, succeed academically, and
acquire the life skills needed to prepare them for
adulthood. We work to ensure that girls have the
skills, knowledge, and support to examine media
critically and analyze the explicit and implicit roles
that media can play in their lives.