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Since day one, Hardy Girls programming, resources and services have been powered by the latest research in girls' development.
Girls today are bombarded with images and messages conjured up by the media and other corporate giants in their quests to make money from girls’ insecurities and self-doubts. Girls experience cultural pressures to conform to an “ideal” image of thin, sexy, boy-crazy shoppers at far too young an age. The 3,000 media images they see on any given day paint a picture of an ideal girl no real girl can match up to. It’s no wonder that nearly 80% of preteen girls are on some form of diet and that girls as young as eight years old feel enormous stress and pressure to be pretty, thin, accommodating, and popular. For far too many girls the pressure to measure up is too much and they turn to drugs, alcohol, eating disorders and self-harm to cope. At the same time, they are made to feel in competition with each other, more often than not, leading to girlfighting. The problem isn’t the girls; the problem is the messages they are getting from the culture.
Among all these pressures, girls are rarely given the tools to deconstruct these messages or the opportunities to counteract the media. Hardy Girls Healthy Women provides programming that empowers girls, teaches them to be critical consumers of the culture, and gives them opportunities for social activism. HGHW also works with adults to give them the skills and resources to create "hardiness zones" or safe spaces where girls can grow up equal, independent, and safe.
Hardy Girls Healthy Women (HGHW) takes girls seriously and puts the power in their hands to challenge a society that ignores their brilliance. We dare adult allies to join us in standing with girls. Our vision is girls causing a ruckus.
HGHW delivers a variety of programming for girls in 2nd-12th grade, and resources and training for adults. Check out our website for more information: http://www.hghw.org
