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'Girl Talk' youth program counters school bullying with mentoring |
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Written by Patrik Jonsson - CS Monitor
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Tuesday, 18 January 2011 |
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Article Source: CS Monitor
As a teen Haley Kilpatrick felt the sting of school bullying herself. She started the youth program 'Girl Talk' to stand up to it.
Atlanta, GA: Once a week, the middle-schoolers at the private Atlanta Girls School go to a unique homeroom session where chatter trumps study.The get-together is Girl Talk, part of a nonprofit movement where teens besieged daily by the trappings of consumer culture, high-tech gossip gizmos, and "mean girl" mentalities talk to older girls about how to get beyond what seems to them to be a life-and-death drama buzzing around them.
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