I joined the board of Powerful Voices this year and have been continually impressed with the commitment, professionalism and discipline of the executive director, Jane Hinton. I have also had the chance to meet PV staff and girls and young women served by the organization a the recent Girlvolution event, a girl-organized and run 1 day conference on issues important to girls and women. I attended a workshop on preventing bullying and LGBTQ issues. Both were girl-run. I found the workshops thought provoking and well organized. I am grateful for the opportunity to serve this organization that is helping build strong, healthy girls who will become strong, healthy women.
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- EIN 91-1679907
- (206) 860-1026
- 1544 S Snoqualmie St Seattle WA 98108-1900 USA
- www.powerfulvoices.org
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Nonprofit Overview
Causes: Children & Youth, Children & Youth Services, Crime & Law, Human Services, Youth Community Service Clubs, Youth Violence Prevention
Mission: Powerful voices provides violence prevention and youth development activities to girls who are socialized and/or identifies as female, ages 12-18. Powerful voices is focused on girls most impacted by opression and violence. Powerful voices also engages allies (adults and young men) who are interested in working in solidarity with girls to create a more just world. Our vision is for all girls to live healthy, personally meaningful lives in a society that values them.
Programs: Community engagement - powerful voices works within the community on girls' issues to promote equity and make the world a just place for everyone. Community engagement efforts include producing the annual girlvolution conference, providing training on powerful voices curriculum and practices, serving on coalitions and partnering to provide outreach to girls detained in king county juvenile detention. In 2017, the girlvolution conference reached over 320 youth and adult allies. Powerful voices provided training to 34 other youth development professionals and adults and trained supported 11 new adult allies (mentors) and served on various community coalitions. Powerful voices staff facilitated education and socio-emotional workshops with 27 girls in detention.
powerful choices - provides girls with education and pro-social activities to promote positive identity, promote healthy relationships and tools to access community resources. The curriculum is delivered through group and individual sessions. Powerful choices was offered in three seattle public schools middle schools, reaching 31 youth. In partnership with other community organizations such as atlantic street center, community for youth, children's home society, we served an additional 48 girls.
youth employment program - provides girls with pre-employment, career building and job readiness skills. Three cohorts of girls participated in a group employment program that includes individual goal setting and performance evaluation session. The first cohort is develop your voice and speak (dyvas), where young women are employed to produce an alternate form of media to educate the community about social justice issues. The second cohort is activevistas, where young women are employed to develop and present workshops at the girlvolution conference. The third cohort is job readiness focused on developing real-world skilld through activities such as career panels, resume assistance, mock interviews. The youth employment program served 27 youth.