"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 agreat 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
TBA “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 self-worth,” 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 More on G-SEP 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: "I knew something big must have been happening in this program when I learned that other programs were sending in people to see what you were doing so they could scramble to try to copy it in their "established" programs." "The program took this town by storm and left some youth groups scrambling. Groups that never talked about etiquette or self-esteem for girls are now learning what G-SEP has known all along. You need to teach girls how to be well mannered ladies, and not just how not to get pregnant." "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." "I like how you emphasize that this program isn't an At-Risk-Program. My husband and I know our girls isn't at risk of anything but maybe being more successful than we dreamed." Update G-SEP Academy 2011 Class Dates
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.
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Girls learn, etiquette, social grace, sisterhood, self-defense, verbal judo, how to cope with peer pressure, and how to deal with bullies.
This week girls also learn that being mean to others, never ends with a win.
Our academy is not an At-Risk-Youth Program. We believe that labels such as "Inner-city" and "At-Risk" are labels that lead to low self-esteem and an excuse to fail.
We team up with loving and caring parents who have similar goals and dreams for their daughters. By reinforcing what parents are already teaching their Princesses, we provide the momentum for high achieving girls, who are often overlooked and ignored. The fact is most girls will never get into trouble for reasons ranging from good fathers, mothers, educators, and personal drive.
We believe girls who have drive, need our support and guidance too. G-SEP is their cheering squad.
G-SEP girls carry themselves with honor, grace and dignity. Many of our girls have been skipped up a grade level because of their academic determination. Most have a 3.8 G.P.A or above, and this year we send our first young lady to New York to study ballet on a full dance scholarship.
Professional ballerinas from New York coach the Princesses on poise and grace during the program that awards girls on true merit that warrants praise.
The dancers also perform at the Little Miss Capital City Pageant and G-SEP Graduation to raise funds for our programs.
Each G-SEP girl pledges to carry herself with grace and dignity, through her teen years and beyond.
Parents must register Princesses for the G-SEP Academy. Girls ages 4-12 are eligible to attend. All of our classes are on Saturdays, so that parents may drop their Princesses off in a safe, clean environment and have some Saturday afternoon time to themselves.
"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, wish they had a program like it when I was a young girl."
"It's hard for women especially in minority 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."
"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."
