How We're Unique
Goals and Impact
Girls RAP
STAGES


Powerful Voices helps girls reach their potential by instilling confidence and offering guidance to high risk teenagers and girls in juvenile detention.
Powerful Voices | Because Strong Girls Become Strong Women

How We're Unique

Powerful Voices is unique in the Seattle area because of our focus on issues affecting adolescent girls, and because we address these issues-through girl-led, strengths-based programs.

Girl-led: In an all-girl environment with an adult-to-girl ratio that allows for high expectations to be set, girls work on projects they design themselves and set goals that are relevant to their lives. Girls are given every opportunity to practice leadership in our groups and workshops through leading activities and building consensus together as a group.

Strengths-based: While we believe we are preventing girls from serious threats to their well-being, our curriculum is not issue-driven. The issues girls are challenged by are changing all the time, and each community manifests them differently. We have found it more effective to focus on what girls have to offer– their strengths– rather than preach to them about what they should or shouldn't be doing. This makes our programs very portable-virtually any community of girls can engage in our curriculum and find it relevant to their lives. We teach girls the life skills they need to be positive, contributing members of society.

Girl-focused: For many girls, our programs are the only all-girl environments they encounter in their lives. Instructors build an atmosphere of trust and respect that teaches them new ways of forming female friendships. Such an atmosphere is significant, because when you bring girls together from different cliques, grades, and life experiences, you not only transform their lives but you start transforming the entire community.