Girls In Action, Inc (GIA)
GIAgirls Talk Session & Workshops
"It Takes A Village to Encourage A Girl"
GIAgirls Talk Session Location:
Sursum Corda Youth Center
1175 1st Terrace NW
Washington DC 20001
Please join us at our next event!
Click on the Topics of the current and past events listed below to view and print the flyers.
Next 2011 Rap Session Dates:
- Saturday, January 22, 2011 at 3PM "It's A Money Thing" see link
- Saturday, January 29, 2011 at 3PM "Money Doesn't Grow on Trees" ~ GIAgirls will learn to identify Needs vs Wants.
- Saturday, March 12, 2011 at 4PM: "Media and Self-Esteem in Girls"
- Saturday, March 19, 2011 at 4PM: "Mean Chicks & Cliques: Take A Stand Against Bullying"
- Saturday, April 2, 2011 at 4PM "Girl, Positive: I'm Worth IT"
- Saturday, April 9, 2011 at 4PM "Teach Me How To Budget" (Part 2)
- Saturday, April 30, 2011 at 4PM "Express Yourself: Create Your Own Jewelry"
- Saturday, May 14, 2011 at 4PM "Fit and Fabulous: It's A Girl Thing" with Guest Speaker, Certified Personal Trainer, Patrice Jones who is the Founder of FRU FIT Affordable Fitness
- Saturday, May 21, 2011 at 4PM "It's Fun Being A Girl: DIVA Princesses Spa Day" ***
- Saturday, June 4, 2011 at 4PM "Readers Are Leaders Book Club" Mtg
- Saturday, June 25, 2011 at 12PM "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun: Movie Day" Saturday, July 9, 2011 at 4PM "Readers Are Leaders Book Club" Mtg
- Saturday, July 16, 2011 at 12PM "The Power of Self-Defense: Learn to React if Attacked"
- Saturday, August 13, 2011 "Teach Me How To Budget: Back To School Shopping"
- Satuday, August 27, 2011, "Young, Black, and Female"
- Saturday, September 17, 2011 "Goal Setting: Girls With Goals"
- Saturday, September 24, 2011 "Real Girls: Real Pressures"
- Saturday, October "Princess Divas 'Cooking in the Kitchen!"
- Saturday November "GIAgirls Got Talent: Fashion and Brand You"
Upcoming 2011 GIA Workshops:
Location of Workshops:
Sursum Corda Youth Center
1175 1st Terrace NW, 2nd Floor
Washington DC 20001
"Teach Me How To Budget" Workshop
2011
Date and Time: TBD
Give the girls in your life that valuable advantage by signing them up to attend this fun and motivating budgeting workshop. Budgeting expert, Ikisha Little meets kids on kids' level to provide practical financial advice. This workshop help kids explore things they can do with money-earn it, give it, save it, and spend it. Before they even finish the budgeting workshop, your kids will be fired up to become wise stewards God desires us to be.
Summer 2011
Date: TBD
This workshop will teach Entrepreneurship and Marketing skills where female youth will learn how to make jewelry and convert old jeans into skirts and purses. They will learn
how to brand and market their designs.
"Fabulous & Fit: It's a Girl Thing" Workshop
April 2010
DATE: To Be Determined
In this fun interactive workshop participants will learn some basic nutrition facts as well as healthy eating and living tips. Participants will also learn yoga and aerobic exercises to stay fit and fab. We hope that this workshop will inspire participants to take care of themselves inside and out, through their mind, body and soul.
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2010 Rap Session Dates:
Saturday, June 5th at 5PM - Topic: "What is Beautiful to Me" (see pics) Saturday, June 19th at 5PM - Topic: "The Perfect Me" (see pics) Saturday, July 17th at 5PM - Topic: "Finding Your Talent: Believe In Yourself"
Saturday, August 14th at 4PM-Topic:"Gratitude: What Are You Grateful for?"
Saturday, September 18th at 5PM "R-E-S-P-E-C-T YOURSELF" (FLYER) (see pics)
Saturday, July 24, 2010 9:30AM-3PM
(see link on the left to view pics)
August Event: Saturday, August 28th 10AM-3PM
(see link on the left to view pics)
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Upcoming 2011 Field Trips in the Washington DC metro area:
- Bureau of Engraving
- Botanical Gardens for girls ages 8-12 yrs old "Beauty All Around You"
- National American History Museum
- Newseum http://www.newseum.org/
- Women in the Arts Museum http://www.nmwa.org/
- Luray Caverns VA http://www.luraycaverns.com/
- The Mary McLeod Bethune Council House National Historic Site
- African American Civil War Memorial and Museum
- Smithsonian National Museum of African Art
- Frederick Douglass National Historic Site in Washington, DC
- Smithsonian Anacostia Community Museum