SPEAK for YOURSELF
What Girls Say about What Girls Need

Girl's Best Friend Foundation (GBF)is happy to announce the publication of SPEAK for YOURSELF: What Girls Say about What Girls Need. The report is based on an intensive, two-year study conducted by girls and about girls. It presents the insights of more than 200 young women in six Illinois communities--12 to 18-year old girls from urban, suburban, and rural areas, representing diverse race, class, and religious backgrounds.

Speak for Yourself girl researchers learned that their peers want to be respected as valuable community members. Girls want to feel emotionally and physically safe in their neighborhoods, programs, and schools, and they want to have a real voice in decisions that affect them. They want adult support as they challenge themselves to learn and grow.

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If you are unable to download a copy of the report, please contact us and we will be happy to mail you a copy. Email us at contact@girlsbestfriend.org or call us at 312.266.2842.

Speak for Yourself was written and directed by Lynn M. Phillips, Ph.D., a social and developmental psychologist and author of Flirting with Danger and the National Council for Research on Women's The Girl's Report, as well as several other national publications on adolescent girls and young women. The reserach was sponsored and facilitated by Girl's Best Friend Foundaiton.