Girls Advocacy Toolkit

The Girl’s Advocacy Toolkit is the first step in our efforts to impart the skills, confidence, and enthusiasm girls need to make their voices heard.  The Girl’s Advocacy Toolkit, which is a first of its kind, strength-based curriculum specifically designed to build advocacy skills for girls and young women. Designed to provide girls (over the course of seven group meetings that build upon each other) with the skills necessary to recognize and use their voices, the Toolkit is a comprehensive curriculum including a Facilitator’s Guide and a Girl’s Workbook. With seven chapters complete with exercises, resource pages, and inspiring stories of Oregon girls, the Toolkit takes young women on a journey of self-discovery, highlighting various advocacy realms, and presenting myriad means of achieving their goals, dreams, and desires.

Narrated by a fictional fifteen-year old girl named Angela, the Workbook is accessible and fun. Angela encourages readers to “be strong, be bold, be resourceful—and most importantly, be yourself!” She explains that, “Girls are making change all the time, all over the world. Maybe you are one of those girls—already advocating for yourself, or maybe you have always wanted to make some changes in your life but have never quite known how to do it. Maybe you are somewhere in the middle. But one thing is certain: Wherever you’ve been, wherever you are, wherever you wanna go, this book is for you.”

If you think the Toolkit may also be for you and the girls you work with, for more information about this project, or to obtain a copy of the Girl's Advocacy Toolkit, please contact the Coalition at 503.297.2217 ex.23 or email: pam.patton@morrisonkids.org