The Free2b Girls Program
The Free2b Girls Program is an early intervention approach to the personal development and social inclusion of girls aged 10-16 in regional communities throughout Australia.
The program helps build self-belief and identity in girls through focusing on their creative capabilities, positive attributes and contributions to their local community.
Up to 20 girls are offered responsibility for a space where they can develop their own agendas and activities within established boundaries of safety, tolerance and respect.
Groups run weekly for approx. 2 hrs and are facilitated by local volunteers trained in The Free2b Approach to youth and community engagement.
This approach enables the girls’ interests, passions and individual personalities to thrive and guides the group dynamic so that it becomes a space they feel they belong to and want to return to each week.
The program helps build self-belief and identity in girls through focusing on their creative capabilities, positive attributes and contributions to their local community.
Up to 20 girls are offered responsibility for a space where they can develop their own agendas and activities within established boundaries of safety, tolerance and respect.
Groups run weekly for approx. 2 hrs and are facilitated by local volunteers trained in The Free2b Approach to youth and community engagement.
This approach enables the girls’ interests, passions and individual personalities to thrive and guides the group dynamic so that it becomes a space they feel they belong to and want to return to each week.
The Free2b Community
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The Free2b Girls Program offers a model for social change that invites local communities to actively demonstrate support for their young women by creating conditions for them to thrive in.
It enables opportunities for members of a community to volunteer, share skills, attend events, financially support and show consideration for the challenges girls may experience during their transitional phases of life. The Free2b Program helps break down intergenerational and attitudinal barriers through providing a platform where the interests and motivations of girls are valued as important catalysts for change. It provides a way for girls and their community to begin creating together. |
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The Free2b Women
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Free2b Girls provides an umbrella under which passionate, inspired women can set up a girls group.in their community.
We provide the training, the policies, the record keeping systems, safety protocols, reviews - all the 'red tape stuff' so that the women involved with running the groups can just focus on being involved! We also assist with funding strategies, advocacy, program development and provide ongoing support as required.. Our focus is on ensuring safety within the groups so that freedom can flourish...both for the women and the girls who come along. |
The Free2b Approach
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The Free2b Approach is an approach to youth engagement that teaches how to set aside personal agendas, open up minds and learn the art of flexible and adaptable communication.
It is an approach that ensures Free2b Girls groups are run in a way that encourages freedom, choice and creativity within boundaries of safety, tolerance and respect. Developed by Tani Langoulant, Founder of Free2b Girls, The Free2b Approach is inspired by her lived experience of running a group for teenage girls in St Helens, Tasmania since 2017 . It is also informed by Tani's background as a counselor and social ecologist blended with research in the areas of youth engagement, neuroscience, psychology, educational philosophy, youth policy, mental health strategies, evolutionary biology and sustainable development. All women running Free2b Groups are trained in this approach so that the 'Free' in Free2b Girls can be sustained...... |
Contact Tani to find out more about The Free2b Approach
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