To make an impact on young women’s lives by helping them transition through adolescence via education, integration and genuine ‘heart’.  This will be accomplished by providing a secure and stable environment of acceptance, encouragement and respect.  This atmosphere will be conducive to increasing self-esteem, confidence, and a healthy body and self-image, as well as challenge the girls to realize and reach for their potential.
 
Building Relationships Involving the Development of Girls' Empowering Selves


BRIDGES Core Values
       
         Believing in others 
         Creating possibilities for yourself
         Everybody is Beautiful
         Identifying the beauty in ourselves & others
         Suspending judgment, seeking first to understand & respect others
         Everyone deserves to be appreciated & valued
         Every girl has a story - Every human being has a story 
         Encouraging & inspiring others to find their true & authentic selves
         Helping girls discover their self-worth; 
                                      that they are worthy of esteem & respect


                                                                                                       
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