Strong Moms Strong Girls is a curriculum addressing the challenges of relational aggression. Relational aggression is a broad term but includes behaviors such as gossiping, spreading rumors, or threatening to reject or exclude someone (from Girlfighting, Lyn Mikel Brown). The goal of the program is to familiarize parents, educators, and caregivers with the uniqueness and intricacies of relational aggression. Strong Moms Strong Girls gives participants language and tools to be able to identify relational aggression and reduce its impact on girls. While Strong Moms Strong Girls addresses all relational aggression, the curriculum emphasizes “Figuring Out Friendships” – the relational aggression that can happen between friends

Strong Moms Strong Girls has been a project of the Junior League of Ann Arbor since the spring of 2006. From 2006 to 2010, the Junior League of Ann Arbor partnered with the University Center for the Child and the Family (UCCF), part of the University of Michigan. Since 2010, the UCCF has undergone a reorganization and the Junior League of Ann Arbor has amicably parted ways with the UCCF on the partnership of Strong Mom Strong Girls. In the fall of 2014, the Junior League of Ann Arbor voted to bring back the Strong Mom Strong Girls program as a signature project.

Beginning in fall of 2015, the Junior League of Ann Arbor is excited to once again offer “Figuring out Friendships” workshops for elementary age girls and their mothers or caregivers. These workshops are an opportunity for mothers and daughters to learn how to communicate and work together as allies to support each other and to combat relational aggression. Workshop dates and registration information will be posted on jlaa.org.

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