PROGRAMS

Crittenton serves teen girls

SNEAKERS

SNEAKERS is a program for girls navigating the challenges and choices of the 8th to 12th grades. 

SNEAKERS empowers seventh to twelfth-grade girls to navigate the choices and challenges of adolescence. It teaches girls about healthy relationships with their peers, dating partners, and parents; positive communication; reproductive health and pregnancy prevention; “adulting” skills; and postsecondary education and career options. It also enables them to acquire and use skills essential for college readiness and personal success.

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PEARLS

PEARLS is a positive youth development program for young women who are pregnant or parenting. 

PEARLS enables pregnant and parenting high school students to succeed as students and parents. It offers teen parents a support system as they learn how to balance the competing responsibilities of parenthood and education. Through PEARLS, pregnant and parenting teens learn about healthy pregnancy, labor, and delivery; managing stress; infant and child development, positive parenting skills and discipline strategies; child care and safety; healthy relationships, co-parenting, and positive communications; reproductive health; and postsecondary education and careers.

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GOAL SETTING GIRLS

Goal Setting Girls is a 28-week curriculum that focuses on social and emotional learning for sixth and seventh-grade girls from lower income families. 

Goal Setting Girls strengthens the social and emotional skills that middle school girls need to succeed in school and as first-generation college students. It uses goal setting as an entry point to deliver an evidence-based social and emotional development curriculum. It also uses project-based learning to introduce STEM careers, connects participants to academic support, and engages parents to strengthen their ability to support their daughters’ education.

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