The 3rd Annual Colorado Conference on Girls

“Why Girls?”

November 5, 2009


CONFERENCE SCHEDULE


8:30am Registration
9:00am Movement Sessions
9:30am Breakout Session 1
  • Gender Specific Programming for Girls: What It Takes To Create!
  • Gender Growing Up GLBTQ: Looking at the Reality of Sexuality for Girls in Today’s Society
  • Gender How to Help: Ending Eating Disorders and Body Hate Through Awareness and Acceptance
  • Why I Gotta Be so Hard: Understanding Girls’ Pathways to Violence and Aggression (Session Sponsored by: The University of Denver’s Center for Community Engagement and Service Learning)
10:50am Keynote Address by Nell Merlino, Count Me In
12:00pm Lunch
1:00pm Breakout Session 2
  • Girls at Risk: Turning Victims into Victors!
  • How Girls Learn: The Importance of Gender in Education (Session Sponsored by: Girls Athletic Leadership School)
  • Why Care? A Girl’s Perspective Panel
  • Why Involve Girls? Engaging Girls in the Political Process
2:05pm Breakout Session 3
  • Getting Girls Through School: How to Prevent Attrition in Colorado
  • Girls and Race: It is Not As Simple As Just “Being a Girl” (Session Sponsored by: Girls Inc. of Metro Denver)
  • Talk is Power: How to Talk to Girls About Sex and Sexuality
  • Why So Negative? Reconciling Self Image and the Media
3:15pm Why Girls? A Panel of Community Leaders Facilitated by Senator Mike Johnston
  • AJ Clemmons, Office of the Independent Monitor
  • Cary Kennedy, Colorado State Treasurer
  • Dusti Gurule, Latina Initiative
4:15pm Closing

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