"I know that I am beautiful inside and out. I will always carry myself with grace and dignity. With courage and faith, I will gorw into a great woman. I will surround myself with people who love and respect me, I promise to love and respect myself." G-SEP Pledge
Girls Self-Esteem Program Offers Information About Becoming Empowered And Self-Sufficient
Update G-SEP Academy 2010 Class Dates
March 1, 2010 Registration BeginsApril 17 Class 1-4pm
April 24 Class 1-4pm Field Trip
May 3 Class 1-4pm
May 15 Class 1-4pm
June 5 Class 1-4pm
June 19 Class 1-4pm
July 10 Graduation
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Being pretty is one thing, but the girl who holds her head high and takes care of her own business, writes her own ticket. The lesson is being driven home to a group of local girls participating in the Girls Self-Esteem Program (G-SEP), an offering of the Fathers Resource Center’s youth programs. Since kicking off in April, G-SEP has been empowering girls to believe in themselves and that they’re worthy of success.
“By addressing issues ranging from peer pressure, to body image, G-SEP members learn to carry themselves with grace and dignity. Emphasis is placed on the importance of female self-respect and selfworth,” she continued.
Other G-SEP sessions include "What is self esteem” "Health and Fitness", “Defining Beauty,” “Coping with Peer Pressure” and “Kidnap Prevention.”
To learn more about G-SEP, call (916) 647-3223.
by GENOA BARROW
OBSERVER Senior Staff Writer
More on G-SEP
The Girls Self-Esteem Program (G-SEP), is a part of the Youth Self-Esteem Program. Orginally founded in Harlem by a young dancer who wanted to give something back to the community.
The youth outreach program's girls branch (G-SEP) is aimed at building and maintaining self-esteem in girls.
The program promotes literacy, public speaking, self-esteem and all-around excellence. G-SEP programs take a personal approach in helping girls ages 4-12 recognize and believe in their inner beauty.
The program teaches girls to carry themselves with grace, dignity and respect. The curriculum includes counseling on how to cope with issues ranging from peer pressure, to body image. Girls learn Verbal Judo, how to avoid dangerous situations, and how to escape and fight back if they are in physical danger.
Each girl is encouraged to make a commitment to excel in academics, physical fitness as well as civic and social involvement in their communities, churches and schools.
Along with pledging to continue to love and respect themselves through their teen years and beyond, G-SEP participants learn etiquette, manners and many participate in Little Miss West Pageants, appear in local radio and television ads, and spend hundreds of hours volunteering in their communities. G-SEP Session Topics 2010 TBA International G-SEP Spokesperson NaTalia Johnson Arrives from 7. G-SEP Graduation Presentation G-SEP Session Procedures Icebreaker Topic presentation Discussion: Breakup into age groups 4-6, 7-9, 10-12 Related activity G-SEP Pledge: “I know that I am beautiful inside and out. I will always carry myself with grace and dignity. With courage and faith, I will grow into a great woman. I will surround myself with people who love and respect me. I promise to love and respect myself.” Quotes from parents:
Princess Introductions
Recite G-SEP Pledge
"Each G-SEP members learns about sisterhood, and how to be a good friend. As a mother I was never taught how to be a good friend to another woman. I found out myself from this program that it's possible to have sisters outside your family that you can depend on and support."
"How will our girls know how to be good women unless we teach them?"
"The fact is our girls will be influenced by their friends. I would rather they be influenced by the girls in G-SEP as teenagers than by other kids whose parents don't have same morals, goals and standards."
"I brought my daughter because I wanted her to find something I never had, true friends. She's made friends that she talks to everyday and plays with every weekend. She met the girls in the program, wis they had a program like it when I was a young girl."
"It's hard for women especially in minoritiy communities where we have to compete for that one job spot, compete for that one good male. That's why it's hard to find women friends, because we have always had to compete with each other. In this program my daughter learned that every women isn't out to get you or compete with you. It's OK to just be friends."
"I've made some friends with mothers I would have never met were it not for G-SEP. These mothers have the same parenting values I have."
"Thank you for G-SEP. My daughter can't stop talking about the program and what she learned. Wish you did the program year round."
"What I liked about the program is that they understand that we're busy parents, and that the kids do other activities outside G-SEP. The program days were flexible. My daughter didn't have to miss anything to be a member of the G-SEP club."
"Every little girl in our community should be in this program or come to see the show. My daughter started crying when she met the black ballerina. She had never seen a ballerina that looks like her. Now she wants to be a ballerina like Ms. NaTalia."
"It was such a good experience for the girls to meet the professional dancers and actors from New York. Our kids need to see that there's more outside Sacramento."
"My daughter loved riding in the limo. Now she wants us to buy a limo. I told her she could own her own if she does well in school."
