Rites For Girls

Rites for Girls Rites for Girls CIC mission is to change the world one girl at a time, by making the lives of girls safer, kinder and better supported. Girls Journeying Together groups offer a year of monthly support for preteen girls as they practice being true to themselves, learn about puberty, share their hopes and fears, and help each other into their teens. We support girls to emerge from adolescence stronger than they went in, working to prevent the high rates of self-harm and low esteem. Girls’ Net provides immediate guidance and camaraderie online over 6 weeks to help small same-age groups of girls (aged 8-18) manage increased anxiety, family issues, divorce, bereavement, siblings, bullying, exams, social media and body image. Our mentors offer tools for coping well and the girls access their inner resources while also realising that they’re not alone. Parenting through difficult times 3-session weekly online series helps small groups of parents do their best parenting in times of difficulty. We train women to facilitate Girls Journeying Together and Girls’ Net groups, supporting the girls and their mothers. Facilitators become ‘the woman they needed at 11’ and are provided with meaningful work that fits around other commitments, enabling them to serve in a diverse range of cultures bringing back the power of community in a way that appeals to today’s girls.