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Commit To A Girl
Advocacy Campaign
Girl Scouts has found that many needs of girls are
not being met. In the new millennium, our challenge is to advocate
for girls and how Girl Scouts is meeting the needs of young women.
Girl Scouts of the Chesapeake Bay Council is addressing the Critical
Priories of Girls by:
· providing
girls in poverty an opportunity to participate in positive programs
· addressing
the gender gap in science/technology
· educating
girls about health issues such as obesity and AIDS
Girl Scout Research Institute has been in providing
us with the voices of girls. In recent studies, girls told us that:
- Almost
one-quarter of teens have fewer than three adults they can go to
if they are in trouble or need help.
- More than
one-third of teens worry about finding peers to talk to and trust,
while 38 percent of tween and teen girls worry about their
emotional safety when they are with their peers.
- When asked
what worries them most in their every day lives - 32 percent of
girls said they fear being teased.
- 56% of seventh
graders agree with the statement “I like the way I look.”
- Thirty percent
of girls who have gone into public chat rooms have been sexually
harassed online, but only 7 percent of those girls say they told
their mother or father about the incident immediately.
- Girls are
express extreme anxiety about relationships with boys. They also
envision themselves as victims within those relationships.
In the most
recent Uhlich Teen Report Card, it showed how teen rated adults on
important topics such as providing young people with a safe place to
live, keeping schools safe from violence, fighting AIDS, and really
listening to and understanding young people. Teen girls consistently
rated adults with B-s, C+s, and D+s.
This information has call us to action and we ask the community to
involved with issues facing girls today.
Commit to a Girl Fact Sheet
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