Girls Incorporated Of Omaha

Health & wellness - this program helps girls become healthier through increased physical activity, knowledge and practice of nutritional foods and cooking, nutritional meals and snacks, developing skills for healthy stress reduction, indentifying and avoiding unhealthy choices. Girls will have increased knowledge of their bodies and medically accurate information about reproductive health. Girls will have access to medical screenings and tests.

Life skills - this program provides job training in the areas of hr, resume writing, interviewing, dressing for work, workplace expectations, relationships with co-workers, and work ethic. This program prepares girls to make life choices by teaching them about career options, community resources, personal finance management, personal safety, healthy relationships, and leadership. In addition, scholarship payments include educational awards to high school seniors and college students that participated in our programs and activities, and whom are now pursuing post-secondary education.

Center activities and national girls inc. Dues comprise "other programs." center activities expenses include supervision of programs and unstructured free-play time; support for discipline and student management; developing family relationships and family engagement; coaching and support of frontline staff; student safety; holiday parties and other recreational activities and field trips. National dues expenses support development of national curriculum, program evaluation, and program opportunities for girls outside the scope of regular, local program offerings. In 2019, girls inc started a transitional living program, the protege house. The protege house helps young women (19-24) who are ready to help themselves by providing supports for both school and workforce success. The mission of protege house is to put young women solidly on the path to independence and self-sufficiency.