Overview - Welcome To Girls Empowered

Almost 10 years old, Girls Empowered, Boys Empowered and Kids Empowered! has served over 40,000 girls, boys, parents and teachers . We offer over 75 one week summer day camps, assemblies, after-school programs, Scout workshops, Parenting workshops and training for professionals.

Why Girls Empowered, Boys Empowered, Kids Empowered:

Relational Aggression, bullying and mean-spirited behavior are growing problems for children beginning in Pre-school.

Teaching kids, parents and teachers how to deal with relational aggression, bullying, and mean-spirited behavior is our specialty. We teach kids to identify the meannie behavior, what it looks like to be a target and bystander, and how to stand up for yourself and others.

Confidence is the best protection against bullies and relational aggression. Our programs teach how to build confidence and self-esteem, how to problem-solve and deal with conflict, how to make and keep healthy friendships, and social skills such as how to handle rejection, be an active listener, saying and accepting NO, taking turns, compromising, and apologizing.

Teaching communication skills is another important piece to dealing with relational aggression and bullying. Our programs teach the different styles of communication, how kids can be mean to each other through non-verbal body language, and how to be assertive.

For children who have become a target of relational aggression and bullying we offer ONE-ON-ONE Coaching with the child and parents. Through ONE-ON-ONE Coaching, parents and children will learn strategies and be given tools to practice at home to deal with relational aggression and bullying. Click here to for information on ONE-ON-ONE Coaching. It can be done by phone or in person .

Girls Empowered Professionals

Teamwork . . . Professionals
The Girls Empowered team is made up of social workers, school counselors, teachers and fitness and dance teachers. A major difference in the Kids Empowered Programs is that our staff are paid professionals and not volunteers or high school students that similar programs provide.

About the Founder
Girls Empowered was founded in 1999 by Kimber Bishop-Yanke. Kimber Bishop-Yanke is President and the creator of Girls Empowered. Ms. Bishop-Yanke and the Girls Empowered team present workshops and programs all over Metro-Detroit. Ms. Bishop-Yanke travels nationally to speaker at conferences on relational aggression and bullying. Additionally, she administers programs and provides professional development seminars.

National conferences and clients in the past two years include:
1st and 2nd National conference on relational aggression and bullying by the Ophelia Project

1 and 2nd National conference on Mean Girls
Michigan School Counselors Conference (2008,2006, 2004)

Scarsdale , NY school district, Social Workers

Danville, PA school district Social workers and school counselors

Trafalger Castle School, Toronto, OH Girls, Parents, Teachers and Social Workers

Relational Aggression One Day Seminars in Norman, Oklahoma, Dallas, Texas, Houston Texas, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania- Teachers, Principals, School Counselors

Roosevelt Middle School, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Teachers, Parent Child program

Ms. Bishop-Yanke has a Masters in International Management from The American School of International Management and a Bachelors of Economics from the University of Kentucky. Her background includes teaching fitness classes for over 20 years and multiple trainings from other girl serving and family serving organization. Over the last 9 years, she founded and co-organizes The Girls Matter conference www.girls-matter.org and founded and co-organized the Michigan Fathers conference from 2002-2007. She is the mother of 6 years old Kai, 2 year old Keegan and stepmother to 13 year old Taylor . Being the mother of two boys inspired her to started Boys Empowered because she recognized from day one of Girls Empowered that boys needed the program too! www.boysempowered.com

Ms. Bishop-Yanke believes in being a citizen of the world and that all of us must work together to eliminate bullying, relational aggression and meanness. That we must spread kindness, compassion and inclusion. It is up to us and it is our responsibility to be that change, to be the person who stands up for those that are being mistreated from bullying to genocide. To be that person to work to eliminate hunger and those who are in extreme poverty.

Ms. Bishop-Yanke’s favorite organizations that she volunteers her time for are:

Kids Against Hunger www.kidsagainsthungermi.org National: www.feedingchildren.org
KAH is a great opportunity for children and adults to participate in a hands-on activity to make a difference. Participants package the ingredients of a fortified rice-soy mixture with dehydrated vegetables, chicken, fat, salt & 21 essential vitamins & minerals

Th Wellspring of Hope www.wellspringofhope.net This organization has built a school and is building a medical
clinic for children in Cameroon.

Michigan Darfur Coalition www.michigandarfurcoalition.org National: www.savedarfur.org The mission of this organization is to stop and prevent genocide.

Phone: 248-840-9858
PO Box 236, Birmingham, MI 48012
info@girlsempowered.com

Workshops and Topics include:
*Relational Aggression
*Bullying
*Social Skills
*Self-esteem & Confidence building
*Friendship & Cliques
*Assertiveness
*Conflict resolution
*Etiquette
*Nutrition
*Self-defense
*Fitness classes (Hip Hop, Yoga, Cardio-boxing,
Aerobics)

Girls Empowered programs include:
*Summer Day camps
*After-school programs
*In-school programs
*Scout Workshops
*Parenting Workshops
*Teacher/Counselor workshops
*Train the Trainer
*Girls Nite Out Program
*One-on-One Coaching
*Conferences

Girls Empowered programs teach girls life skills and tools through:
*Discussions
*Role-Plays
*Crafts
*Fitness activities

Nationally recognized programs

Organizations in the Metro-Detroit area include: (partial list)
*Birmingham School District
*Bloomfield Hills School District
*Novi School District
*The Community House, Birmingham
*The War Memorial, Grosse Pointe Farms
*Berkley School District
*Clawson School District
*Farmington School District
*Royal Oak School District
*Rainbow Girls
*Birmingham Bloomfield Families in Action
*Walled Lake Parenting Fair
*Girls Matter conference
*Utica School District
*Jewish Federation
*Jewish Community Center

Testimonials

In their own words . . .

"The professionals at Girls Empowered were excellent in providing valuable information, facilitating meaningful student interaction and giving our girls strategies to improve the quality of their school based experience."
– Robert E Phillips, Dean of Students, St Regis
Catholic School, Bloomfield Hills, MI

"We love having Girls Empowered do programs for our Brownie troop meetings! The workshops fit right in with the Girl Scout mission."
– Deana Sawicki, Girl Scout Troop
Leader, Berkely, MI

"I heard Girls Empowered at the Michigan School Counselors conference. I loved the presentation so much that I decided to bring the program to my school district."
– Deb Stephens, Middle School Guidance Counselor
Ludington, MI

"It was the best workshop at the conference."
– Quote from evaluation form at the national girls conference organized by the Ophelia Project.