This past week, Nancy and I traveled to Las Vegas, Nevada to present at the 3rd Annual Girl Bullying and Other Forms of Relational Aggression Conference. While there, we met some amazing administrators, counselors, and educators from all over America as well as Canada! It was a great experience for us both. Not only were we able to share the success of our GEMS program with so many people, but we were able to talk to them about what they are doing with their girls.
We would like to give a big shout out to Renita Bartlett and her girls at the Calgary Family Services center in Calgary Alberta, Canada. They participate in a program called Spirit. We are looking forward to connecting our GEMS girls with these young ladies through blogs on our website!
And finally, we are excited to announce that GEMS has gone international! Alessandra DiViccaro won a free copy of the GEMS curriculum to use with her girls at John Paul I High School in Montreal, Quebec Canada. We can’t wait to get pictures of these new GEMS girls up on our website and share their successes with all of you!
Keep checking our website as well as our Facebook page to see what’s going on.
4 responses so far ↓
1 Alessandra Di Viccaro // Jun 30, 2009 at 6:57 pm
I am so happy to have won the GEMS curriculum! It’s too bad I have to wait until September to see my girls again! My colleague Antonella and I are very excited to introduce the program at our school! Thank you, thank you, thank you! We will keep you posted!
2 Nancy Ball // Jul 1, 2009 at 7:47 am
Alessandra, We are so ecstatic that you won! Your enthusiasm about winning the GEMS program was the highlight of our trip! We are also excited that GEMS has gone international! We look forward to hearing about your progress with GEMS and welcome you and your girls. Maybe Lauren and I will take a road trip up to Montreal someday soon! Take care!
3 Alessandra Di Viccaro // Oct 13, 2009 at 1:33 pm
Our first GEMS session here at John Paul I High School is tomorrow afternoon. We have 50 girls participating. We will post pics soon!
4 Casey Walsh // Jan 15, 2010 at 6:07 pm
i am so happy you won that award for gems too! i hope more and more schools will hook on to this program! mayby they can make a boys progrem like or simular to gems! thnx and keep the good work up:P
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