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• Overview
• History/Needs Assessment
• Programming
• Upcoming Meetings and Events
• Contact Information

Overview

Thanks to a grant from the Bingham Program, last year Hardy Girls Healthy Women launched a 3-year outreach initiative to work with community stakeholders to enhance and expand girls' development programming in Maine's rim counties.

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History/Needs Assessment

The Aroostook County coalition held their first meeting in March 2009 in Presque Isle. At this meeting, members identified the challenges that girls face, as well as girls' strengths.

Aroostook County Strengths and Challenges

Aroostook County Resources

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Programming

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Upcoming Meetings and Events

Aroostook County Film Series
Upward Bound and the Aroostook County Hardy Girls Healthy Women Coalition will be presenting a 3-part film series about the ways in which media adversely affects the healthy development of girls and boys.

• July 7, 6-7:30pm: Killing Us Softly 3
  Jean Kilbourne uses over 160 ads and TV commercials to critique advertising's image of women. By fostering creative and productive dialogue, she invites viewers to look at familiar images in a new way that moves and empowers them to take action.
• July 14, 6-7:30pm: Tough Guise
  Tough Guise is the first educational video geared toward college and high school students to systematically examine the relationship between images of popular culture and the social construction of masculine identities in the U.S. at the dawn of the 21st century.
• July 21, 6-7:30pm: Mickey Mouse Monopoly
  This film takes a close and critical look at the world Disney films create and the stories they tell about race, gender and class and reaches disturbing conclusions about the values propagated under the guise of innocence and fun. This daring new video insightfully analyzes Disney's cultural pedagogy, examines its corporate power, and explores its vast influence on our global culture.

All films will be shown at UMPI. Appropriate for teenagers and adults.

The Aroostook County film series made the news! Read here.

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Contact Information

If you are interested in learning more about the initiative in Aroostook County, contact Marissa at marissa@hghw.org or (207)861-8131.

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Thanks to Hardy Girls...

“Our entire staff was able to better understand the societal pressures and stereotypes that our campers deal with…and how to counteract the impression they leave on our girls. Thank you for your wealth of knowledge." – Tracy St. Onge-May, Director, The Summer Camp

"Ugly Ducklings has provided us with a brilliant film and an information-rich, user-friendly action kit that we can employ with youth in very diverse settings – schools, youth groups, faith communities, shelters, and other residential programs. This documentary is right now the best film on the planet that confronts us with the painful intrapersonal and interpersonal effects on all young people of the pervasive sexual prejudice that we teach them, and the resultant harassment and bullying, and it does so with power and sensitivity." - Diane Elze, School of Social Work, University of Buffalo