Give an Hour Indiana is our second regional initiative designed to expand and deepen Give an Hour services in communities across Indiana.
Give an Hour partnered with the Marion County Public Health Department and Women’s Fund of Central Indiana to launch Give an Hour Indiana. After conducting a needs assessment, Give an Hour Indiana and its partners launched Real Girls Feel. Real Girls Feel is an interactive, culturally and trauma-responsive program that promotes wellbeing and healthy habits for 4th, 5th, and 6th-grade girls in selected underserved Indianapolis Public Schools. If a program participant needs mental health treatment, but cannot afford care, the child’s parent is connected to a licensed volunteer who provides counseling at no cost.
Give an Hour Indiana’s youth programs are focused on increasing understanding of the five signs of emotional suffering, creating healthy habits of emotional wellbeing, reducing youth violence, addressing racial health equity disparities, and preventing youth marijuana and other drug use for students within Indianapolis Public Schools (IPS). These programs engage primarily diverse girls in underserved communities within Marion County using a culturally responsive prevention program. The programs build emotional wellbeing skills, practice positive responses to emotions, and prevent youth drug abuse.
