Moving Beyond “Mean Girls:” Building Girls’ Coalition Groups
With Jackie Dupont, LMSW, Vice President of Research & Programs for Hardy Girls Healthy Women
NEW DATES!
Webinar 1: Tuesday, April 23, 2013 - 4-5:30 pm Eastern Time
Webinar 2: Tuesday, April 30, 2013 - 4-5:30 pm Eastern Time
$125
Register Today! Registration is limited to just 25 participants, so don't delay! 

Are you ready to take a new approach in your work with girls? Want to find a way to stop girl fighting, teach media literacy skills, and empower girls to change their world for the better?

Now it has never been easier to bring Hardy Girls’ proven approach to girls’ empowerment to your school or community! Register today for the webinar series Moving Beyond “Mean Girls:” Building Girls' Coalition Groups and receive our incredible girls' group curriculum, join two interactive webinars to help you get the ball rolling, and enjoy membership in our online learning community that will support you from beginning to end. 

Registration includes your own digital copy of our research-based girls' group curriculum From Adversaries to Allies and its companion guide, A Facilitator's Guide to Being a Muse (an $80 value), and enrollment in the Hardy Girls Healthy Women online learning community. We’ll be here to support you every step of the way!

In this webinar series, you will learn:

• Developmental and societal factors that contribute to a loss of voice for girls during adolescence
• Strategies for starting girls' coalition groups, including how to get institutional support and start a group
• Critical skills for being an effective facilitator or muse
• Ways to engage youth in partnerships that offer control, commitment, and challenge

Continuing education units are available. This program is approved by the National Association of Social Workers (Provider #886560106-9611) for three social work continuing education contact hours.

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Presenter:

Jackie Dupont, LMSW, Vice President of Research and Programs at Hardy Girls Healthy Women, is a graduate of Colby College and holds a B.A. in Human Development.  She earned her Masters degree from the University of Maine in Social Work and is a licensed social worker.  

While at Colby, Jackie was one of the original coalition facilitators for Dr. Lyn Mikel Brown's pilot program "Girls' Coalition Groups" in 2004.  From 2004 until the present Jackie has worked directly with girls ranging from 2nd to 12th grade and she continues to develop, evaluate, and oversee all of the direct service programming at Hardy Girls Healthy Women. During her five years with Hardy Girls Healthy Women, Jackie has transformed local programming resulting in the tripling of direct-service participants across the board including the number of scholarship recipients. Jackie continues to work directly with girls ranging from 2nd grade to undergraduate students developing, evaluating, and overseeing all of the direct service programming at Hardy Girls Healthy Women. Jackie also co-authored Becoming a Muse: A Facilitator’s Guide, the companion manual to the curriculum From Adversaries to Allies.

Jackie has served as the co-director for the South End Planning Committee, a group of community members invested in the sustainability and preservation of the historical Franco-American neighborhood known as the "South End" in Waterville.