TeaCup Girls Mentoring Organization
Announcing 2012 Winter Program.
This program will help the
participants discover their dreams and visions, and learn how to execute them through
workshops (tools: “Women Who Grew Up Great” by Gwendolyn Gray); field trips, hands-on-community
service.
Expected outcomes: Participants will learn to develop
better communication skills through open and honest dialogue, develop a
positive self image, understand the need for community involvement, develop
social and life skills, improve reading and comprehension skills and focus on
their DREAM and future, both personally and professionally.
Registration Now! $25.00
Program beings February 11 - June, 2012
Who should apply:
All girls ages 5 - 17
2012 Calendar
Apply Now! Class size is limited.
To Register, click on the donate button and enter Child's name, contact information and enter code: IAAD2012 in the Pay Pal Notes.
TeaCup Girls Workshops
TeaCup Young Ladies Ministry executes the mission of the organization through a 17-week program called “Discover the Leader in You.” The program addresses various topics that are significant to girls between the ages of 5-18 and include workshops on Business and Social Etiquette, Emotional Wellness, Nutrition Awareness and One to one mentoring, all while helping the girls to hone their leadership skills.
Additionally, because the organization is built on the concept of “Women of Wisdom Pouring into the Next Generation,” the girls involved complete various community service projects in the community in which they reside.
Business and Social Etiquette:
In order to maneuver through life successfully, there are certain guidelines by which to abide in certain social settings.
The Business and Social Etiquette component of the program allows the young ladies to learn how to properly conduct themselves in career pursuits and general social settings. Workshops on social etiquette teach how to eat properly in public eating situations, how to act in everyday interaction with their peers and adults and how to calmly assess and resolve conflict among peers. Business etiquette lessons teach resume writing and interview skills that will carry the young ladies into their respective careers successfully.
Emotional Wellness:
The issue of stress in young women today is an often overlooked subject but in fact is something that should be recognized. Things such as single parent households, children that are adopted who may deal with feelings of neglect, latch key children who miss out on interaction with their parents, and even traumatic events that are caused by outside people all have negative effects on them.
Through the Emotional Wellness program, these issues are addressed with Shawneda Marks, author of Diamond Butterfly, who advises the girls using her scriptural based method of “Share, Heal, Sparkle, Shine & Fly.” By this method, the girls learn how to first acknowledge their problems, then how to deal with them properly and move forward positively.
Nutrition Awareness:
Recently, childhood obesity has been brought to the forefront of society’s attention because of initiatives put in place by First Lady Michelle Obama through her “Let’s Move” campaign to raise a healthier generation of kids.
Through workshops, the Nutrition awareness program teaches the young ladies about selecting healthier food options that are nutritionally balanced and about how to incorporate regular exercise into their lives so they avoid diseases that plague African-Americans such as heart disease, strokes, diabetes and so on. Also, by exposing the young women to these healthier food and exercise options, they take preventative measures to ensure they live longer and also avoid the high cost of health care which is another issue plaguing the our community.
One to One Mentoring:
On a daily basis the most common people these young women encounter don’t go beyond mothers, grandmothers, and teachers. Some of the girls however, don’t have constant interaction with matriarchal figures that can help to guide them in the right direction, due to incarceration. Even still if they do have this person in the household, often times, parents spend so much time working and otherwise providing for the family, that little time is left to impart the wisdom and knowledge necessary to steer them into positive lifestyles that can help them to become influential young ladies and more productive citizens.
Our one to one mentoring program provides alternative positive female role models that the girls can look up to and receive different perspectives on various life topics. The goal of the program is to discover what careers the girls aspire to pursue and then match them accordingly with a woman already in that field to help guide them along the path they should take to get to that goal. Additionally, the mentors provide advice and exposure into an array of interests that otherwise the girls may not have experienced.