Best practices experience, knowledge and approaches for working with and for girls and young women

Summary: Community organizations and girls' program facilitators are continuously developing and implementing new approaches, pedagogies, and practices in their work with girls and young women. However, because of time and resource limitations, it is often difficult to compile and synthesize advances made, and to capture and transfer critical information to other practitioners working in similar fields. This document is intended to bring together the experiences, knowledge, and lessons learned in the form of "best practices." "Best practices", in this sense, includes any projects, practices, approaches, methods or techniques, technological or artistic applications, or activities that expand upon, improve, modify or experiment with the overall objective of promoting social justice through one's work with and for girls and young women. Creating and ensuring the wide availability of a "best practices" document is an important step in building upon existing knowledge. This document is not a "how-to" guide by any stretch; rather, it is meant to be a fluid learning tool. We intend for this project to contribute to the continuous process of identifying innovative and effective practices used (and some of the barriers to practice) in girl-specific programs in communities across Canada.