Public Education
Justice for Girls (JFG) communications are a platform for teen girls and young women to express their opinions, JFG researchers and advocates to educate policy makers and the public, and to encourage donors and volunteers to support our work.
“Thank you! You all are so brave, courageous and empowering. It is a wonderful and empathetic approach to address real barriers to real girls. Not just an idea! Keep it up! We need more of this!”
– JFG Workshop Participant
Leading the Work: Savanah Norman
Led by Savanah Norman, our public engagement and education work is grounded in the power of public education to advance girls’ equality and engage our supporters.
Savanah started as an intern with Justice for Girls at the age of 17 and has played a key role in developing the vision and priorities of the JFG along with delivering public education workshops to medical students, educators, young women, students and funders.
Engagement & Awareness
Increasing public awareness and engagement on the issues impacting teenage girls in poverty is a key strategy in Justice for Girls’ work to achieve equality for teenage girls. Justice for Girls learns from young women staff, interns, board members and volunteers, as well as the teen girls we serve in the community and ensures their perspectives, experiences, leadership and recommendations for change inform and direct our work.
Educational Outreach to Teenage Girls
We offer educational outreach to teenage girls in the community and in schools. Our workshops cover topics such as gender equality, rights-based education, and sexual assault and consent.
Professional Development & Public Education
Public education is a critical part of our work to prevent violence against girls, to educate about poverty in girls’ lives, to educate about the criminalization of girls in Canada, and to promote girls’ human rights. We provide public education workshops and training for education, healthcare, and youth service providers, and for those still in training to increase their capacity to work with and support the teenage girls in their care. We are also frequently called upon by public, community, and government bodies to consult and present on teenage girls’ perspectives and experiences of violence and exploitation, poverty, colonization and racism, life and government care, housing insecurity and homelessness, and criminalization.
JFG interns have played a central role in facilitating workshops to thousands of medical, health care, education, and use service providers over the past five years. Workshop participants describe being uniquely impacted by learning directly from young women who have experiential knowledge of inequalities and barriers.
UBC & JFG
JFG partners with UBC Allard School of Law Pro Bono students, UBC Economic students, and UBC Health Sciences and Medical students to promote the rights of teenage girls who live in poverty.
