Helping Girls Feel Beautiful On The
Inside & Out.
Building Life Skills
Developing Confidence
Ongoing Mentorship
ABOUT
We Are Beautiful Outreach Programs, Inc was founded by Starshemah Duncan in response to a growing need for mental health and mentorship for young girls and women. The organization is dedicated to building self-esteem and cultivating the beauty within each girl and young woman. Our motto, “Cultivate the Beauty Within,” emphasizes the importance of embracing our unique qualities and accepting our perceived flaws as strengths.
Our programming is designed to assist girls and young women ages 5-18 with building life skills, developing self-confidence, and forming mentorship relationships. We also take a holistic approach, connecting the mind and body to understand how they affect our thoughts and behaviors. Additionally, we will be expanding our services to college-aged women to continue developing their self-perspective and mentoring younger girls as they navigate young adulthood. We will work with schools, community programs, and other agencies to provide our services and support to young girls and women.
PROGRAMS
Young Girl Empowerment
Our Young Girl Empowerment Program provided mental health services for elementary to high school aged girls. The program is designed to target and treat various areas of mental health that young girls may face (i.e.., depression, suicidal ideations, and bullying). The program will provide afterschool therapy sessions to help them learn skills to cope with mental health challenges they are facing.
We Are Beautiful Summer Camp
We Are Beautiful Summer Camp will be working with Boyce Park to provide programming in the park. This will be new initiative for the organization. The summer camp will be held once a month for a week. The camp will begin the month of June and continue until August. This program will provide each girl with the skills to develop and strengthen their confidence to build their self-worth. The title of the camp is “Knowing Your Self-Worth” Each girl will begin to discover their strengths and perceived flaws and understand the importance of their role within their surroundings as well as the world.
Beautiful Inside And Out Self-Identify Initiative
We Are Beautiful Outreach Programs, Inc. will conduct workshops with girl groups in the community, organizations, schools to teach young women how to have a positive self-identity. Female mentors and staff will help with these workshops to share their stories with the girls of how they navigate life ups and downs, what they overcame, and teach them about what it means and how to develop a healthy self-esteem. Workshops topics may include but not limited to: Developing a Healthy Self-esteem, Coping with Brokenness, Moving Past Hurt, Reaching for My Goals, and Working My Gift and Passion.
You Are Beautiful Mentoring Program
You Are Beautiful Group Mentoring will conduct monthly sessions based on surveyed topics from the collective body of mentees or selected topic by staff member, and group dialogue around that specific topics. Each mentoring group will be broken into elementary, middle, high school aged groups. A few topic to name but not limited to: How to Possess a Positive Self Image, Dating & Relationships, Money Management, Job-Readiness, and Etiquette.
Young Beauties
We Are Beautiful Outreach Programs; Inc will also hold seminars and small classes to teach girls and young women in the community about “Holistic Beauty” by teaching them about their body changes as well as how to properly take care of themselves. We will teach them keys to being healthy and confident in the mind, body, and spirit. Girls will participate in exercises to learn about healthy eating habits. Experts will also be brought in to talk about various Medical and Sexual Education issues that affect girls and how they can remain safe and healthy. We will provide sessions to focus on “Maintaining Good Hygiene.”
We Are Beautiful Self-Esteem Group
We Are Beautiful Self-Esteem group will conduct monthly sessions based on developed curriculum that based on the principles of cultivating the beauty within each of the girls. The group will be broken into elementary, middle, and high school aged group. Will be expanding to college aged girls/women to provide the same support and information to develop and strengthen learn skills about oneself.
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Executive Director
Starshemah Duncan, the creator, and founder of We Are Beautiful Outreach Programs, Inc was developed due to the increased need of young girls/women who struggle with their self-esteem and perspective of who they are. Starshemah developed the group, We Are Beautiful Self-Esteem because of her struggles as a dark-skinned girl it followed her into her adulthood which caused a lack of self-esteem and an inability to see herself fearfully and wonderfully made according to God’s purpose for her life.
In August 2022, We are Beautiful Outreach Programs, Inc was established out of a growing need to provide quality mental health and mentorships to develop healthy self-esteem. The concept of the organization was based on the motto “Cultivate the Beauty Within” which means to assist each young girl or lady to begin to embrace the beauty within them. For example, learning to love the qualities or characteristics that make us who we are and accepting what we perceive as flaws or weaknesses restructuring into strengths or beauty that makes us beautiful inside and out.
CONTACT
If you’re ready to step into a bigger picture of beauty or ready to get involved, let’s talk.
OFFICE
6031 Saltsburg Rd. Verona, PA 15147
PHONE
412-228-0714
waboutreachprograms@gmail.com