We make an impact through partnership
We have worked with 8 partnering organizations, trained 100 community members, and reached over 1000 young women. As our programs continue to grow, so does our rich community of leaders and students.
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VOICES REACHED
We have worked with over 1000 people across the globe in empowering their voices through our programs, workshops, and outreach.
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MENTORS WE’VE TRAINED
We have helped train and consult mentors, teachers, and community leaders in harnessing our tools to empower their students voices and civic involvement. These mentors continue to help us in empowering people to use their voices for self and civic advocacy.
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CURRICULA TOOLS CREATED
We have made many tools to assist everyone in exercising their voices and creativity across the globe. Our curricula can be applied to numerous social systems and contexts across the globe.
The SPEAK Approach
SPEAK offers a two-pronged approach to supporting the voices of young women and girls across the world. We offer direct programming to young women in the Denver/Boulder area as well as Professional Development for mentors, teachers, and community leaders working across the globe. Our curriculum is a multi-year program that has been translated into four languages (English, Spanish, Swahili, and Arabic) and field-tested in various global regions. Through rigorous adjustment, SPEAK has built a program that is flexible enough to be contextualized to the localized needs of young women everywhere, but structured enough to ensure that their physical, emotional, and civic voices are supported and enriched in their communities.
Publications on SPEAK’s Approach
Our impact is situated for sustainability. Our long-term relationships with partners and our programming have helped us provide direct training to staff as one-off workshops or a series, but we also build a capacity of within both higher paying and recipient organizations by providing training of the trainers for in-house Human Resources directors and local teachers with optimal certification backed by CU Boulder’s Continuing Education program. Our use of online learning platforms allows us to nurture a continuing culture of inclusion for women’s contributions across all contexts.
This in turn allows us to focus on our social impact goals of raising women’s voices around the world.
