Goals and Impact

Program Goals and Impact

Powerful Voices has taken great effort to synchronize program goals, activities, outcomes and impact so that we can make the largest community contribution possible.

Goals
Both of our programs share five common goals:

Personal Power: Develop girls’ personal strengths so they become powerful advocates for themselves and others.

Safety: Prevent girls’ victimization and help girls to transcend harmful conditions so they can live the lives they desire most.

Activism: Encourage girls to develop critical thinking, knowledge and skills so they can act to make the world a better place.

Girl Culture: Transform the culture among girls so that every girl is valued and respected.

Adult Guidance and Support: Ensure that girls experience positive relationships with supportive adults so girls are inspired to become strong women.

Impact
As we work daily on making these goals real for each of the girls we serve, we keep in mind the end result we seek to accomplish. Ultimately, we must improve the lives of adolescent girls in long-lasting ways.

Through our programs in Seattle public middle schools and in the juvenile justice system:

Girls gain critical thinking skills.

Girls have positive social interactions with other girls and with adults.

Girls learn important information about the joys of being a girl and becoming a woman.

Girls feel safer in school and in the community.

Girls improve their self-esteem and gain confidence.

Girls have opportunities to express themselves.

Girls make connections to crucial services in our community.

Girls experience competence and achievement.