WHAT MAKES GIRLS INC DIFFERENT

• Girls Inc. programming:

• is delivered by professionally-trained facilitators, rather than volunteers who may not have the time or the training to offer excellent programs.
• focuses on gender equity, inspiring girls to be strong, smart & bold, and key issues like pregnancy prevention, rather than general youth development and “safer” topics.
• involves the participation of girls on a regular basis where they can engage in longterm relationships with facilitators and other girls, rather than meeting once a week for an hour
  or so.
• is comprehensive, including modules that develop across four age groups, building on learning from one area to another, rather than organized in short-term activities related to a variety of topics.
• is based on high-quality, longitudinal, national evaluation research, rather than only local evaluation of program quality.
• includes role modeling and mentoring as key components where older girls connect with younger girls, rather than groups segregated by age.
• provides opportunities for girls to work with a number of adults with a variety of skills, rather than limiting the adults involved to the same one or two people over time.
• reaches many girls (of color and from low-income families) who would be left out of enrichment programs otherwise.

GOVERNANCE

GIRLS INCORPORATED OF THE NORTHERN SACRAMENTO VALLEY
BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Amy Henderson, President
Kathy Barry
Rev. Patty Bourne
Donald G. Jones
Linda McBride
Juliette Read
Jennifer Snider
David Stickney
Marguerite Sweeney
Susan Morris Wilson
Kathy Wheeler
Shellisa Moore

Barbara McIver, Executive Director

The Board of Directors meets each month on the fourth Monday at 5:30 p.m.

The public is welcome.  Please call for more information:  530.527.7767