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Girls in the Games teen programs are designed to offer teen girls further opportunities for leadership development.Teen Squad: Teen Squad provides up to 40 teen leaders the opportunity to earn scholarships for college while improving their self-esteem and leadership skills. Members of Teen Squad lead health and leadership workshops for younger girls in the community and participate in fitness activities along with younger participants to set a positive example of healthy living. In exchange, members earn scholarships for higher education and other incentives through a tiered rewards system. In addition to leading workshops for younger girls, Teen Squad members participate in Leader to Leader Interviews where they meet with panels of professionals in a variety of different roles and industries and interview them about their backgrounds and careers. Teens prepare and lead the interview and use the opportunity to educate the panelists about the needs and issues facing teen girls today.Summer Squad: Summer Squad provides leadership training for girls ages 14 to 18. Participants learn coaching skills, while increasing their leadership ability, personal responsibility, time management, and knowledge of healthy lifestyle behaviors.Teen Club: The site-based Teen Club adapts our traditional programming to dive deeper into needed topics. It is used to engage girls ages 14 to 18 who we arent currently reaching through Teen Squad due to family obligations, part-time jobs, or lack of transportation. Teen Club meets girls where they are by entering school spaces to work with teens. We utilize small groups and lunch periods during school time once a week for twelve-week seasons.Teen Residential Programming: We offer teen programming at Cook County Juvenile Temporary Detention Center (JTDC) and Mercy Home for Boys and Girls. This programming adapts our sports, health, and leadership curriculum to allow participants more choice over topics and incorporate trauma-informed approaches such as opening and closing check-in circles. Programming at JTDC is offered year-round and programming at Mercy Home occurs during the school year.

Girls in the Game offers one-time and school-break programs to engage more girls and offer fun, active and healthy opportunities for girls when they are out of school.Days of Play: Days of Play are healthy-lifestyle workshops open to all girls who participate in Girls in the Game programs. Coaches (including teen coaches) lead girls through rotations of our sports, health, and leadership lessons for a fun day where girls from all over Chicago come together to play and learn. We hold Days of Play in the winter and spring on non-school attendance days. Game Days: Game Days are one-day events held in a variety of Chicago neighborhoods. Over the course of the year, up to 1,500 girls at 40 different Chicago sites will participate in three hours of traditional and nontraditional sports as well as workshops on health and leadership. Game Days are often hosted at potential After School sites and serve as the first impression of our programs for many participants and their families. We also hold Game Days at sites where we run elementary and middle school programming in order to recruit new girls. Sports and Leadership Summer Camp: Summer Camp brings up to 130 girls from across Chicago together to experience new sports and learn about healthy lifestyles and leadership topics. Girls participate in four weeks of full-day, day camp, one week of overnight camp, and attend field trips. Girls in the Game provides daily complimentary bus service to ensure that girls have safe transportation to and from camp.