Girls, Inc. supports the X files Business-Education Partnership through its involvement in school-to-career activities for students, including:

• Student and Teacher Internships
• Job Shadows
• Speaking in the Classroom

  Please contact Jane Allamong at (402) 457-4676 or through email at jallamong@girlsincomaha.org to coordinate activities for your school.

Mission:

TO BUILD GIRLS CAPACITY FOR CONFIDENT, RESPONSIBLE AND SELF-SUFFICIENT ADULTHOOD WITH SPECIAL EMPHASIS ON THOSE WITH LIMITED ACCESS TO COMPARABLE RESOURCES.

Slogan:

Inspiring All Girls to be Strong, Smart and Bold SM

History

Founded in 1975, Girls Incorporated of Omaha annually serves more than 5,000 young people regardless of ability to pay and offers gender-specific, research-based education programs and services for girls in our community.

Girls Incorporated programs encourage girls to master physical, intellectual and emotional challenges. Many girls are enriched with unique experiences they will carry with them their entire lifetime.

Girls Incorporated serves girls ages 6 to 18 in its facilities in north and south Omaha. Additional girls and young people experience Girls Incorporated programming through outreach programs. Kid-Ability! , a nationally recognized child sexual abuse prevention program, equips young people with information they need to keep safe and gives them skills to identify people who can help them.

Girls Incorporated s programming is focused on six-core goals-

• Career & Life Planning
• Health & Sexuality
• Leadership & Community Action
• Sports & Adventure
• Self Reliance & Life Skills
• Culture & Heritage

In addition to the programs offered, Girls Incorporated of Omaha offers transportation to our Centers and home in the evening, hot nutritional meal after school or lunch and snack during school holidays and summer and tutoring to assist with schoolwork.

Bill of Rights:

Girls have the right to be themselves- people first and females second- and to resist pressure to behave in sex-stereotyped ways.

Girls have the right to express themselves with originality and enthusiasm.

Girls have the right to accept and enjoy the bodies they were born with and not to feel pressured to compromise their health in order to satisfy the dictates of an ideal physical image.

Girls have the right to be free of vulnerability and self-doubt and to develop as mentally and emotionally sound individuals.

Girls have the right to prepare for interesting work and economic independence.

Girls, Inc. offers post-secondary student and teacher internship opportunities seasonally, going into the schools to talk about the Girls Inc. programs, and having school students tour the site as a career learning opportunity. Please contact Jane Allamong at (402) 457-4676 to coordinate these activities.

Locations

Girls Incorporated of Omaha
Development Center
2811 N. 45 St.
Omaha, NE 68104
(402) 457-4676

Girls Incorporated of Omaha
Emma Lozier Center
5407 S. 30 St.
Omaha, NE 68107