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The following Plan of Action is what 80+ girls had to say in 2007 to adults and to other girls in our community about topics they consider most important to them.

 

Relationships

Our Message to Adults: Our Message to Girls:
You’re annoying but we love you anyway. Friends are forever, boys are whatever. Be true to yourself.
Action Step Ideas for Adults: Action Step Idea for Girls:
Listen more than you talk and consider what we want and compromise. Be strong and pick a guy who likes you for who you are and not who you pretend to be.

Substance Abuse

Our Message to Adults: Our Message to Girls:
Set a good example.
Practice what you preach.
Talk to us!
Don’t do drugs just to be cool or to fit in, because the high is not going to last forever.
Action Step Ideas for Adults: Action Step Idea for Girls:
Use responsible teens to be examples for younger students.
Don’t ignore signs of substance use.
Talk and listen to teens and be approachable.
Be yourself!
Stand up for your morals!
Keep your true friends close.

Pressure: School, Home & Peer

Our Message to Adults: Our Message to Girls:
Chillax – let us do our own thing!
Don’t push me because I’m close to the edge.
I’m about to lose my head!
Love the skin you’re in!
Action Step Ideas for Adults: Action Step Idea for Girls:
Practice what you preach.
Don’t tell me what to do, advise me!
Be open and let us talk
We should practice what we preach, don’t listen to the media.
Don’t stereotype.
Don’t let others push you to be something you’re not!.

At Preservation Plaza, Maryville,Tennessee
November 1, 2007

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