Girls Incorporated of Metropolitan Dallas
Project Bold

Girls Inc. Project Bold strengthens girls' abilities to lead safer lives. Through innovative programs in a non-threatening and supportive environment, girls develop strategies on physical self-defense skills and verbal assertiveness training. Girls seek out and talk with caring adults about personal violence and advocate on violence issues for girls and young women. Age-appropriate components include Kid-Ability! (Kid Jr.) and Action for Safety.

Kid-Ability!
This is a self-protection program for girls ages 6-8 and 9-11 that builds confidence in her ability to identify potentially dangerous situations and distinguish between appropriate and non-appropriate touching, and identifies people in their lives they can ask for help in a problem. Large and small group discussion, role-playing, videos and games are used to teach girls safety and assertiveness skills.  Girls learn:

• How to be assertive
• To differentiate between good touch and bad touch
• Appropriate responses to a problem touch
• Important rules to follow when home alone
• To identify adults in their lives who can help in a problem situation
• Appropriate responses to the following:
  -  An abduction situation
  -  An emergency situation
  -  When lost in a store
  -  When confronted by bullies
  -  When approached by a stranger
  -  When bribed by a stranger

Action for Safety - For Girls 9-14
This is a nationally researched and developed self defense and violence prevention program for girls. The program combines self-defense education with an effective, action-based critique of stereotypes and gender-based violence. At the same time it teaches girls negotiation, assertiveness and self-defense skills to avoid violence and increase personal safety.  Girls learn:

• That every person has rights
• About self-confidence, strength, and power
• About physical abuse and resources for help
• About prejudice and its effects on people
• Anger-management techniques
• Appropriate responses to strangers or attackers
• Six Stars of Self-Defense: Mind, voice, trusting feelings, courage to tell, blocks, hits and kicks, and getting away
• Issues about sexual harassment
• About sexual abuse and how to tell an adult who can help them
• How dating violence can be emotional and physical abuse