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Many programs do not distinguish between services provided to girls and boys. However, “unisex prevention programs, largely developed without regard to gender, often with males in mind – fail to influence millions of girls and young women. The women of America have paid a fearful price in premature death and destroyed lives for our failure to craft programs aimed at their unique needs” (Joseph A. Califano, Jr., Former U.S. Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare).

Full of Myself® is a gender-responsive program for girls. This means that we know the needs of girls and respond to these needs. It also means that girls are involved in every aspect of the program including design, implementation and evaluation.

Full of Myself® was developed by Dr. Lauren Josephs & Dr. Stephan Brown of Visionary Vanguard Group, Inc. The program was designed with the knowledge that:

• Girls differ in their developmental experience
• Girls have different pathways to problem behaviors
• Many traditional programs are based on a “male model”
• Girls are unique
• The needs of girls are unique
• The unique needs of girls are often unaddressed.

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Mission: Empowering girls to make healthy choices
Vision: Confident, enlightened, physically, emotionally, & financially healthy young                    women.

I will walk through this world with confidence
With the unfaltering belief in the possibility to achieve all things
You may look at me and say “She is full of herself”
To You I say, ‘Yes! I am Full of Myself’.
(Excerpt from ‘Full of Myself’ Pledge© 2009)