This toolkit is designed to help programs precisely identify the nature and degree of girls’ “shrinking worlds” at puberty and to aid them in devising strategies for offsetting the adverse effects of these restrictions on girls. By “quantifying” the information from each participatory exercise into a specially designed recording grid for that tool, the information can easily be conveyed to decision-makers and others who were not part of the group exercise. Download here.

IMAGEN’s Resilience Cards are a resource designed for program leaders who are planning to work with adolescent indigenous girls. The content on each card comes directly from the suggestions of our female relatives, who represent the experiences of girls from several different Native communities across the country. They identified valuable skills, practices, and knowledge that would serve our younger sisters in better navigating the unique obstacles facing indigenous girls in the U.S. The cards are intended to be used in the context of an asset-building exercise, which is an important step in building meaningful program content tailored to the needs of the girls in the community with which you will be working. Download here.