Justice for Girls CenterJustice For Girls is developing a 'one stop' center to provide advocacy, support, and education to teenage girls living in poverty in Vancouver.
Girls will have access to:
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Young Women Interns
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Savanah is 17 years old and started as an Intern with Justice For Girls in April, 2016. When approached by the staff at her alternative school about the opportunity to work with Justice For Girls and make a difference in her community, she was eager to get involved. Her own experience growing up as a girl in Vancouver and facing many challenges, inspired her to be a part of the Girls’ Advocacy & Learning Center project. Over the last year, she has overcome many struggles and grown into a young woman with a bright future. Being a part of Justice For Girls and working alongside the amazing project team has made all the difference in her life.
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Sadea is an eighteen year old high school student in Vancouver and has been an intern with Justice for Girls since April, 2016. She is from the Cree Nation, born in Yellowknife, North West Territories and is a mother to her one and a half year old daughter. While working as an intern for Justice for Girls, she has learned how to empower herself and others through her newly-gained knowledge. She enjoys working alongside youth, as well as co-facilitating focus groups, and hopes to continue her work in advocacy beyond Justice for Girls.
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Danielle has been an intern with Justice For Girls since April, 2016. During her time working alongside the project team, she has discovered her passion for promoting social justice in and outside of the workplace. Danielle is a high school student, a plumber in training, and a mother of a two-year old boy. Her main goal in working with JFG is to help create a sense of confidence, safety, and success for young women living in the LowerMainland of Vancouver.
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Activities
Over the next year, JFG will work alongside young women who have overcome struggles with poverty, intergenerational impacts of colonization, male violence, criminalization and other forms of oppression, to build the vision, priorities, and plan for this critically important center.
Since April of 2016, Justice For Girls has been hard at work to build the foundation for our new center. The project team is conducting focus groups and individual interviews to figure out what is standing in the way of young women in the Lower Mainland. Our project team believes that young women are the experts on their own needs and experiences. Based on the needs, experiences and advice of young women who have generously shared their perspectives with us in focus groups and individual interviews, we are developing the Justice for Girls Center to ensure that it responds to what young women are currently in most need of.
So far, we have visited a number of teen centers in the Lower Mainland to talk with young women about their experiences with different services and support networks in the area. We prepared a series of questions to gain a general understanding of what is and isn’t working in for them in Vancouver (in terms of supports/service). Our discussions included young women's perspectives on health care, education and the Ministry of Child and Family Development. Hearing from young women directly is essential to our research process because in order for our center to be effective, it must be built on the knowledge, needs and first-hand experiences of young women.
Since April of 2016, Justice For Girls has been hard at work to build the foundation for our new center. The project team is conducting focus groups and individual interviews to figure out what is standing in the way of young women in the Lower Mainland. Our project team believes that young women are the experts on their own needs and experiences. Based on the needs, experiences and advice of young women who have generously shared their perspectives with us in focus groups and individual interviews, we are developing the Justice for Girls Center to ensure that it responds to what young women are currently in most need of.
So far, we have visited a number of teen centers in the Lower Mainland to talk with young women about their experiences with different services and support networks in the area. We prepared a series of questions to gain a general understanding of what is and isn’t working in for them in Vancouver (in terms of supports/service). Our discussions included young women's perspectives on health care, education and the Ministry of Child and Family Development. Hearing from young women directly is essential to our research process because in order for our center to be effective, it must be built on the knowledge, needs and first-hand experiences of young women.
