A Ninety-Day Empowerment Journal for Young Women
Learn to Affirm Daily Self-Love, Self-Confidence, and Self-Brilliance
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Professionals and volunteers will find that both -- hard to reach teens and combative 19 to 21 year old females -- are engaged by journal writing that requires them to take responsibility for their behavior. Girls and young women need to have hope, understand the value of education and the rewards of empowerment. Empowerment is a transformative outcome that changes lives.
This book is an appropriate addition to the libraries of these care givers and others: social workers, guidance counselors, character education teachers, as well as various types of in-school intervention classes: health classes, homeroom classes by gender, teens who are pregnant, juvenile justice classes for students who have broken laws but are not old enough to be incarcerated; foster care girls who are experiencing adjustment challenges in new home environments.
Staff in homeless centers will especially find this book useful. The "down time" for teenagers before or after the last meal of the day, is the ideal time when girls may be given a choice to "try something new." Give the girl a copy of A Ninety Day Empowerment Journal. Tell her to choose an activity from any one of the three parts of the book. Sit back and observe how quickly the girl finds an activity of interest! Most girls do not want to part with the book and will, more than likely, say: "May I keep this book?"
The three overarching sections of this book are: Love Yourself, Create Positive Relationships and You and Your Future. The activities for each part takes the users on a journey of self-reflection and an introduction to a world filled with hope and tools to meet challenges. Visualization and meditation become tools that will help transform their lives regardless of their physical environments. Mentors, if they are lucky, (sorority volunteers, girl scout leaders, church women, and other female groups) will increase their success with this valuable tool -- a journal.
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About the Book
This guide for girls and young women ages thirteen to twenty-one tears down the negative images presented in various media of African American youth and young adults.
While it’s intended to be read with an adult mentor, it can also be used by individuals who want to grow and develop on their own.
If you’re a young female, you’ll engage in fun activities, including:
• Listen to Stevie Wonder’s song “Isn’t She Lovely,” and then, using the letters of “lovely,” write a meaning for each letter to describe what is lovely about you.
• Read the poems “Mother to Son” by Langston Hughes and “Still I Rise” by Maya Angelou, and explain how encouragement is defined in each poem.
• Read “10 Challenges That American Women Still Face Today” on the Ms. magazine website, and list three challenges you face now or are likely to face in the future.
You’ll also learn how journal writing can be an appropriate strategy for problem solving when “talking it out” with a friend, parent, or other adult doesn’t seem possible.
Change the way you look at yourself, others, and life with A Ninety-Day Empowerment Journal for Young Women.
About the Author
Gwendolyn J. Cooke, PhD is a retired educator who remains committed to advocating for children of the poor who, too often, fall through the cracks. She’s also the author of two books for adults: Keys to Success for Urban School Principals and Look Up: Images in the Classroom.