After the hustle and bustle of the holiday season, you might be thinking, “Wow, I need a break!” If you’re a young girl with a female mentor, you’re in luck! “‘She Gives Me a Break from the World’: Formal Youth Mentoring Relationships Between Adolescent Girls and Adult Women” highlights benefits with which female-youth mentoring relationships provide girls: Real emotional support; Development of new skills and...

Each month, Meghan Trombly, Strong Women, Strong Girls’ Director of Process Improvement and Knowledge, is blogging about the current research and emerging trends that are informing our work. Check in each month to learn what we’re reading about relationships, role models, or skills. What’s your New Year’s resolution?  Soon enough, we’ll be fielding endless queries about the changes we intend to make at...

Beginning this month, Meghan Trombly, Strong Women, Strong Girls’ Director of Process Improvement and Knowledge, is blogging monthly about the current research and emerging trends that are informing our work. Check in each month to learn what we’re reading about relationships, role models, or skills.  For Strong Women, Strong Girls, the toxic and abusive relationships dominating recent news headlines – such as...

When you’re stuck in a stressful situation trying to find important information, do people tell you to “Strong Women, Strong Girls it?”  When you hear that a new, cutting-edge technology platform is being released, do you camp outside of the Strong Women, Strong Girls office for hours on end?  Probably not.  Consequently, Strong Women, Strong Girls did not join the ranks with Google and Apple on Fast Company’s The World’s Most...

I am truly blessed in my life in many ways – I have my health, a wonderful family, a passion for the work that I do and many, many awesome friends.  Standout among my wonderful group of friends however is my BFF – Mary.  Mary and I have been friends for, gulp, 37 years, well, since 7th grade. If my memory serves me correctly, we connected on our first day of what way back then was called junior high and have had the text book...