Atlanta Growing Leadership of Women Inc

Atlanta GLOW’s six-month mentoring program engages young women and girls in a strengths-based process that facilitates growth towards greater self-sufficiency and successful goal achievement through a guided series of exploration, life skills training and futures planning. Through individual mentoring sessions, Atlanta GLOW program staff and professional mentors collaborate with participants to create Individual Achievement Plans (IAPS) utilizing results from their Casey Life Skills Assessment and EmPATH’s evidence-based Bridge to Self Sufficiency model as they goal-set, identify, and access supports.

Atlanta GLOW’s Summer Leadership Program is a camp experience for young women and girls like no other. It takes our organization’s and programs’ leadership development focus further by teaching the key social emotional skills that lie at the heart of women’s wellness, leadership, advocacy and influence. Our program is for young women and girls from across the metro Atlanta area who want to learn more about themselves while building their competency around concepts such as civic responsibility, diversity and social justice. By the end of the program, participants are charged with creating a project, whether through art, literature or technology, teaching their peers about a cause that matters to them.

Atlanta GLOW's Leadership Circle is youth-centered leadership group for young women and girls that teaches concepts such as public policy, advocacy, activism and community organizing and provides youth with real-life opportunities to put these newly learned leadership and civic engagement skills to use. Our program features a variety of guest speakers, interactive presentations, and youth-led discussions that empower young, low-income women and girls to influence local improvements in women's education, employment, housing and health outcomes. Our program also develops them to be the next generation of public servants and changemakers by providing creative service-learning opportunities and a platform that amplifies their voices on the issues and policies that affect them, their families, and communities.

1 in 5 women with low income levels report missing work, school, or similar events due to lack of access to period supplies. Through our Period+ program, Atlanta GLOW partners with schools, communities and nonprofit organizations to provide essential hygiene care packages, including menstrual products, to distribute to the women and girls who need them. We are also a proud partner with Georgia Stomp, a statewide coalition of organizations formed to address the issues of menstrual equity and period poverty in Georgia.