Leading Ladies of Legacy Programs
Summer 2022
Program Overview
Leading Ladies of Legacy programs are girls-only, safe space gatherings that meet once weekly after school, during school, and/or on Saturdays at local schools, community centers, youth-serving organizations, and our own facilities. A typical group serves 20-25 girls. A typical session features a guided conversation/activity led by one highly trained Adult Program Coordinator. Topics might include school, identity, self-awareness, diversity, relationships with family or college, and careers.
Leading Ladies of Legacy addresses the interconnected issues of poverty, teen pregnancy, violence, and lack of educational attainment at their very roots, by working with girls during the critical pre-teen years when personal choices that are made can have lifelong consequences. Leading Ladies of Legacy girls build leadership skills and character traits such as honesty, personal accountability, learning to listen to the viewpoints of others, clear communication, critical thinking about life and its choices, and sound decision making. Through goal setting, our girls work on reaching tangible goals. These skills are essential to success in school, work, and life.
Additional program elements include ongoing academic support, annual college tour, community field trips, guest speakers, and many other unique components. We also understand that some habits have already been established during the teen years, so we’ve developed enrichment programs for elementary and middle school girls to prepare them for our signature teen programs.
Our Mentoring Programs
Little Ladies League (Grades K-5)
The Little Ladies League is our character development program for our girls. Girls will meet bi-weekly to discover their character through reading, performing arts, and community service. By exploring their world and their place in it, our goal is that girls will develop a greater sense of purpose. The sessions will focus on:
- Social and Emotional Skills
- Moral Character
- Literacy
- Introduction to the Visual and Performing Arts
Lovely Ladies League (Grades 6-8)
Lovely Ladies is a weekly empowerment/mentoring session for our middle school girls. The program is unique from other mentoring programs because it utilizes a group mentoring model. The activities range from workshops and focus groups to social and cultural field trips. The workshops focus on six main areas:
- Positive Self Identity and Self Esteem
- Personal Vision and Goals
- Social and Emotional Skills
- Moral Character
- Academic Success and Work Ethic
- Leadership
Leading Ladies League (Grades 9-12)
Lovely Ladies is a weekly empowerment/mentoring session for our high school girls. The activities range from workshops and focus groups to social and cultural field trips. The workshops focus on four main areas:
- Social and Emotional Learning
- Leadership
- College and Career Readiness, including Service
- Personal Vision and Goals
Our Values and Beliefs
Leading Ladies of Legacy was founded under four principles.
Character
Moral or ethical quality
Qualities of honesty, courage, or the like
We are a challenging and supportive group of girls, ladies, and women who are developing character. We lay the foundation for ourselves. Through character development, we unlock our unique potential. We learn to utilize our intellectual, emotional, and spiritual resources.
Education
Act of acquiring knowledge
Developing the powers to judgment and preparing oneself or others intellectually for mature life
The most important thing we can obtain in this world is knowledge. Knowledge comes in many forms through schooling, reading,
talking, and experiencing. We will challenge and expose our members to knowledge and develop inquiry skills.
Leadership
Ability to lead, guide, or direct
As a leader, we help others to learn just as we have been helped. We ask the best of others just as someone shaped the best in us.
Service
An act of helpful activity, help; aid
“I hear, and I forget
I see- and I remember, But I do, and I understand”
The pursuit of destiny requires our true best, and our true best cannot be attained without the help of others. Active service helps us to understand others, our community, and ourselves.