about Respect Rx

Hey all! I'm Courtney Macavinta, co-author of the best-selling book for teen girls RESPECT and founder of Respect Rx, which is devoted to empowering girls, women and their advocates to boost self-respect, sisterhood and social change in their lives—and our world.
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Partners, Social Change + Activism

Shop for Change!

I just joined the National Board of Girls For A Change, an organization I have volunteered with for five years. GFC has partnered with The Sephora Project and they just completed a national tour—they trained 2,300 girls around the country how to create social change. If you want to join the movement, join the GFC Action Network where you can download the GFC Action Kit, which I helped create. And when you're out shopping this holiday season, hit SEPHORA and buy the bag above. 100% of the proceeds go to GFC.

 
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Body Image + Health, Partners, Self-Respect + Self-Esteem

Girl Scouts uniquely ME! Guide for Facilitators

After facilitating the uniquely ME! Leadership Institute in Atlanta this summer, I had the honor of co-creating with Girl Scouts USA the uniquely ME! program Guide for Facilitators. I wrote the program for high school girls.

Girl Scouts of the USA and the Dove® Self-Esteem Fund collaborated to create uniquely ME!, a program designed to foster self-esteem in girls ages 8-17. The Guide has been created for volunteers and staff in a variety of settings as well as school personnel and other adults interested in facilitating uniquely ME! sessions.

The high school program includes four workshop sessions:
the real you
mind over media
dare to shine
my relationships, myself

You can download the sessions for FREE and use them to lead a program for any teen girls by going to the uniquely ME! web site and clicking the above icon.

 
Partners, Special Events

Carry The Vision Once More

I'll be speaking at this powerful peace conference this Saturday. Want to join me for my birthday?

Carry The Vision
Saturday: December 13, 2008
9 am to 1 pm
Santa Clara University
500 El Camino Real
Santa Clara, CA 95053

(Mentioned in the video: Girls For A Change)

 
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Advocates, Media, Partners

Respect Rx Hits Whateverlife.com

We've partnered up with the super popular Whateverlife.com and Respect Rx is now the self-respect advice column on the site (which gets 7 million monthly visitors and 60 million page views!). Also, stay tuned for unique Respect Rx MySpace layouts from Whateverlife.com for all you girls. We are thrilled to promote this because the creator of Whateverlife is the amazing young woman Ashley Qualls who started the site when she was 14 years old! This girl is living proof that age does not matter because when you are doing what you enjoy, great things come out of it.