Weld County girls need you!

Host a FREE PowerUp Girls for Life Program in Weld County, Colorado!

The nonprofit Youth Empowerment Group (YEG) seeks to serve as many Weld County, Colorado 4th- through 12th-grade girls as possible with empowering, mental-health-supporting education. Schools, after-school programs, youth-serving organizations, women’s and community groups, sports leagues, PTOs, and girls’ clubs may use plug-and-play PowerUp Girls for Life programs free of charge courtesy of The Weld Trust.

Built-in flexibility makes hosting work for you and the girls you serve:

• Number of participants: from 1 or 2 girls to large groups

• Age of participants: designed for 4th through 12th graders

  • older girls may be designated as “leaders” or “helpers” while benefiting from the program

  • teachers and parents may determine the appropriateness or readiness of their children to learn about specific topics and choose not to have them attend specific sessions

• Choose the sessions you teach

  • The curriculum is divided into 6 topical areas

• Choose the program schedule that fits:

  • Video-led sessions are 30- to 45-minutes long on average

  • Need to firmly stay within 30 minutes? You may split sessions into two meeting times as described in the start-up guide video tutorial or you may follow Instructor Guide suggestions for shortening sessions as needed in real-time

  • Sessions may be combined for events

As a program host, you would provide:

• Meeting space with a projection screen, sound system, computer, and internet access for video streaming

• Parent/guardian and student outreach for program awareness and consent form completion using our forms, or alternatively, using opt-out forms

• A female staff member to implement the program, with the option to recruit help from female graduate or college students, or other volunteers

• Printed program documents from the same webpages as videos are found

Youth Empowerment Group provides:

• Online program materials: printable curriculum overview, instructor guides, student handouts, activity sheets, and game cards, and video lessons that include animated activity instructions and timers

• Printable consent forms in English and Spanish

• Advice and support throughout

Past Host Programs

While programs were interrupted by the Covid-19 pandemic, we took the time to reproduce an enhanced version of PowerUp Girls for Life as well as to produce a parallel PowerUp Co-Ed program. A national film project highlighted by Time Magazine gave us hours of impactful footage of youth talking about mental health and life that we are now incorporating into our video lessons.

We look forward to serving more girls directly in Weld County, Colorado with much-needed mental health support and empowering education as we launch national program access on teachable.com.