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 5th- 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 5th 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

  • 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

WELD COUNTY PowerUp CURRICULUM USERS

During program interruption due to the Covid-19 pandemic, we started reproduction of an enhanced version of PowerUp Girls for Life as well as production of a parallel PowerUp Co-Ed program. Our national film project highlighted by Time Magazine provided us with impactful footage of youth talking about mental health and life that are now being incorporating into our video lessons.

Logos below represent some of the entities that serving Weld County youth with PowerUp life skill education. Our mission is to provide expanded free access to more Weld County youth and the organizations that serve them.