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- EIN 52-1844471
- (202) 394-4501
- 4 Laurel Pkwy Chevy Chase MD 20815-4213 USA
- http://www.bestfriendsfoundation.org
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Nonprofit Overview
Causes: Children & Youth, Children & Youth Services, Education, Elementary & Secondary Schools, Literacy, Unknown, Youth Development Programs
Mission: The best friends foundation provides an educational curriculum and/or group assemblies in the metropolitan washingotn dc area for adolescent girls and boys, aged 10-18, which promotes self-respect through the practice self -control by providing skills and guidance which helps them avoid risk behavior. The five basic goals of the program are:1. To develop critical thinking skills in adolescent girls and boys to enable them to progress from the concrete to the formal operational state of reasoning. 2. To develop a sense of self-respect and self-worth through achievement and community service. 3. To enrich the lives of adolescent girls and boys by promoting thier aspirations and providing decision making skills. 4. To incorporate the school an families into the adolescent girls and boy's support system. 5. To provide positive peer groups for 10-18 year old girls in which they are valued members and in which they have a sense of connection to thier school and to each other.
Programs: Metropolitan best friends, diamond girl leadership, best men and best men leadership programs provides participants with curriculum discussions and role model presentations. Seminars such as "health is happiness", "health is fitness", "make music not madness", "stop the silence, prevent the violence" are offered to students, teachers and parents. The program teaches decision making skills which avoid risk behaviors, and it promotes character building activities for peer groups.