Workshop Ideas

The girls group framework presented in this manual is intended to provide marginalized and
at-risk pre-adolescent and adolescent females, ages 12-19, with a space to explore a wide
range of issues that impact their daily lives.

Developped by Jo-Anne Lee, Dept.of Women’s Studies, University of Victoria, Photovoice is a research method that you will use to document your lives. The camera will be your tool to capture images that represent meaningful messages that you would like to convey.

The photovoice activity gets participants to think about:

The International Theatre of the Oppressed Organisation facilitates the development, networking and exchange of those who use (and wish to use) popular theatre techniques in their programming.

Facilitator guide meant to provide tools for communities and organizations in order to address violence prevention among youth, and especially girls.

antidote is an award-winning grassroots network and community-based organization of over 150 multiracial girls and women in Victoria, British Columbia.

MNet is a Canadian non-profit organization that has been pioneering the development of media and digital literacy programs by producing education and awareness programs and resources, working in partnership with Canadian and international organizations, and speaking to audiences across Canada and around the world.

MNet focuses its efforts on equipping adults with information and tools to help young people understand how the media work, how the media may affect their lifestyle choices and the extent to which they, as consumers and citizens, are being well informed.

Keep It Real is a manual for teachers and students who want to bring issues of Hip Hop, commodification and gender into the classroom.

Free of any funding from Big Media, ACME is an emerging global coalition run by and for media educators, a network that champions a three-part mission:

1. Teaching media education knowledge and skills - through keynotes, workshops, trainings, and institutes - to children and adults so that they can become more critical media consumers and more active participants in our democracy;

2. Supporting media reform - No matter what one's cause, media reform is crucial for the success of that cause, and since only those who are media-educated support media reform, media education must be a top priority for all citizens and activists;

3. Democratizing our media system through education and activism.

A non-partisan, not-for-profit organization that provides information and tools, as well as an independent forum, so that families can have a choice and a voice about the media they consume.

RFSU (Riksförbundet För Sexuell Upplysning, a Swedish organization for sexual enlightenment)created this pamphlet becaused they wished to dispel the myths surrounding virginity, the hymen and women's bodies and promote knowledgeof the true facts.