Audience:
Daughters of Tradition: A Prevention Program for Preteen Native American Girls (ages 8-12).
Description:
The Elders told us: "Teach your young people to pray and to respect." The Daughters of Tradition is designed to build resiliency in 9-12-year-old girls by helping them to understand what it means to be good at something and to respect not only themselves, but their traditions, their culture, the land, their parents, elders, and other young people. Daughters of Tradition is a year-long facilitated educational program that addresses current issues such as alcohol and drug abuse prevention, domestic violence prevention, fetal alcohol syndrome prevention. 41pps