Resources

• Uniting Isolated Voices: Girls & Gender-Expansive Youth (August 2021)
• Radical Visions of Safety, for Girls by Girls (February 2021)
  • Radical Visions of Safety Coloring Book
• Decolonizing Gender (December 2019) 
• Together, We Rise: The Lived Experiences of Girls of Color in Oakland, San Francisco, and San Jose (August 2019)
• Meeting the Needs of Girls Toolkit (Toolkit for Teachers/Educators)
• Achieving Equity for Girls in Schools Toolkit (Toolkit for Schools to Implement the Meeting Girls’ Needs Initiative)
• Girls Leading Change: The Lived Experiences of Girls of Color in San Francisco Unified School District (December 2018)
• Growing Up in Oakland Report (December 2016)
• Valuing Girls' Voices: The Lived Experiences of Girls of Color in Oakland Unified School District (September 2016)
• Together We Are Stronger: A Landscape Study of Girl-Serving Organizations (November 2014)

• COVID-19 Data Snapshots
  • Girl's Needs During COVID-19
    • June 2020
    • May 2020
    • September 2020
  • COVID-19's Impact on Girl-Serving Organizations
• Alameda County Girls Fact Sheet by Alliance for Girls
• Marin County Quick Facts by Alliance for Girls
• San Francisco Quick Facts by Alliance for Girls
• Santa Clara County Fact Sheet by Alliance for Girls
• Facts on Body Image from About-Face
• Facts on Child Care and Early Education by YWCA
• Facts on Girls and STEM by Girls Inc.
• Facts on Equal Pay by YWCA
• California Minor Consent and Confidentiality Laws from www.teenhealthlaw.org (2011)
• Statistics on Girls in STEM, reported by TechBridge
• Title IX Requires Schools to Address Sexual Violence by The National Women's Law Center

Local Research

• Through their Eyes: Stories of Reflection, Resistance, and Resilience on Juvenile Incarceration from San Francisco Cis and Trans Young Women & Girls, Trans Young Men & Boys and Gender Expansive Youth, by Young Women's Freedom Center (2021)
• Raising AAPI Youth Visibility: Findings from a survey with Asian American and Pacific Islander Youth in Oakland, by Asian Health Services, AYPAL, and Banteay Srei (2016)
• The Report on the Status of Women in San Francisco - Executive Summary by the San Francisco Department on the Status of Women (2016)
• The Girls Report by the San Francisco Department on the Status of Women (2012)
• Report on the Status of Women and Girls in California by Mount St. Mary's College (2015)
• California Park and Recreation Gender Equity in Community Sports Report by Fair Play for Girls in Sports, Coaching Corps, and California Park & Recreation Society (2014)
• The State of Human Trafficking in California, a report by the California Department of Justice (2012)

National Research

Overall Status of Girls

• Justice Doesn't Trickle Down: How Racialized and Gendered Rules Are Holding Women Back, by the Roosevelt Institute and the Ms. Foundation for Women (2017)
• The State of Girls 2017: Emerging Truths and Troubling Trends, by the Girl Scout Research Institute (2017)

STEM

• Generation STEM Report: What Girls Say About Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math by the Girl Scout Research Institute (2012) - one of the most recent comprehensive surveys of girls in STEM
• The State of Girls in STEM, a report by the National Girls Collaborative Project (2013)
• Gender and Racial Stereotype Endorsement and Implications for STEM Outcomes Among High-Achieving Underrepresented Adolescent Females by Level Playing Field
• Perceived Barriers and Endorsement of Stereotypes Among Adolscent Girls of Color in STEM by Level Playing Field
• Perceived Barriers to Higher Education in STEM among High-Achieving Underrepresented High School Students of Color by Level Playing Field

Education

• National Data on School Discipline by Race and Gender, The Georgetown Law Center on Poverty and Inequality’s Initiative on Gender Justice & Opportunity and the RISE Research team at New York University (2017-2018)
• The Schools Girls Deserve, a participatory action research project (PAR) published by Girls for Gender Equity, in collaboration with girls, transgender and gender nonconforming (TGNC) youth of color in all five boroughs of New York City (2017)
• Let Her Learn: Stopping School Pushout, a set of reports on the intersecting barriers that threaten girls’ educational success by the National Women's Law Center (2017)
• Girlhood Interrupted: The Erasure of Black Girls’ Childhood by Rebecca Epstein, Jamilia J. Blake and Thalia González (2017)
• Black Girls Matter: Pushed Out, Overpoliced and Underprotected by the African American Policy Forum (2015)
• Gender Equity in Education, a report conducted by the U.S. Department of Education (2012)
• Unlocking Opportunity for African American Girls: A Call to Action for Educational Equity by the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund and the National Women's Law Center (2014)

Safety & Well-Being

• California Child Victims Act by Herman Law (2021)
• Ready to Lead: Leadership Supports and Barriers for Black and Latinx Girls, by Girls Leadership (2020)
• Spotlight on Girls in the Juvenile Justice System by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (2018)
• Gender & Trauma—Somatic Interventions for Girls in Juvenile Justice: Implications for Policy and Practice by Rebecca Epstein and Thalia González at The Georgetown Law Center on Poverty and Inequality (2017)
• Mislabeled: The Impact of School Bullying and Discrimination on California Muslim Students by the Council on American-Islamic Relations (2015)
• Title IX: How to Exercise Your Rights & Address Sexual Assault by the National Women's Law Center (2016)
  • Title IX Requires Schools to Address Sexual Violence
  • How to File a Title IX Sexual Harassment or Assault Complaint with the US Department of Education
  • Actually, You Can Disclose That: Transparency in Sexual Assault Reporting & the Family Educational Records Privacy Act
• The Sexual Abuse to Prison Pipeline: The Girls' Story by the Ms. Foundation, Human Rights Project for Girls, and Georgetown Law Center on Poverty and Inequality (2015)
• Crossing the Line: Sexual Harassment at School (Executive Summary) by the AAUWSF (2011)
  
• Dating Violence and Gender, a report from FindYouthInfo.gov (2012)
• Coercive Sexual Environments: What MTO Tells Us About Neighborhoods and Sexual Safety by the Urban Institute and Stanford University (2014)

• The Report of the APA Taskforce on the Sexualization of Girls, conducted by the American Psychological Association (2010)

Girls' Leadership

• Meeting the Moment: Improving EPSDT implementation in California to address growing mental health needs, by the National Center for Youth Law (2020)
• KPMG Women's Leadership Study: Moving Women Forward into Leadership Roles (2015)
• Running for a Change: Girls and Politics Pulse Poll by the Girl Scout Research Institute (2014)

Other

• Watching Gender: How Stereotypes in Movies and on TV Impact Kids' Development by Common Sense Media
• Research finds differences in the brains and behavior of girls and boys with autism by UC Davis MIND Institute (2015)
• The Simple Truth About the Gender Pay Gap by AAUW (2015)
• Understanding the Experience of Girls with EBD* in a Gender-Responsive Support Group(2012) *EBD = emotional and behavioral disorders

• Student Survivor Toolkit by Equal Rights Advocates
  • A comprehensive 70 page guide written by student survivors, Title IX experts, attorneys, restorative justice practitioners, and community organizers. It includes guides to the Title IX process, survivor-centered self-care practices, advice for Muslim and LGBTQ+ survivors, and more. 
• 12 Free Online Warm-Up Activities for Group Facilitators by One Circle Foundation
• What's up with periods? by Planned Parenthood
• Student Period Poverty Primer by Free the Period
  • A guide to understanding period poverty and the disproportionate impacts on marginalized groups.
• RedWomenRising.com by the California Consortium for Urban Indian Health (CCUIH)
  • A comprehensive resource intended to raise awareness about the violence affecting Native women and children and provide resources to facilitate healing and linkages to services. Features educational materials related to domestic violence and sexual assault, resources for survivors seeking safety or guidance, tools to enhance providers' cultural competence in addressing Native patients, training and technical assistance opportunities, as well as a regional DV/SA resource directory for the State of California.
• Know Your Rights materials in response to immigration agents/ICE
  • Resources for Supporting Youth
    • La Villita Se Defiende Know Your Rights Youth Resource Guide 
    • Know Your Rights Presentation 
  • From the ACLU of Northern California
    • What to do if immigration agents/ICE are at your door
      English | Español (Spanish)
    • What to do if you are an immigrant stopped by law enforcement agents
      English | (Arabic) العَرَبِيَّة‎ | 中文(简) (Chinese) | Creole | فارسی (Farsi) | Français (French) | Bahasa Indonesia (Indonesian) | 한국어 (Korean) | Português (Portuguese) | Soomaali (Somali) | Español (Spanish) | Tagalog | (Urdu) اُردُو‎ | Tiếng Việt (Vietnamese)
    • What to do when faced with anti-Muslim discrimination

      English | (Arabic) العَرَبِيَّة‎‎ | فارسی (Farsi) | Bahasa Indonesia (Indonesian) | (Urdu) اُردُو‎

• What to Do When You're Raped: An ABC Handbook for Native Girls by the Native American Women’s Health Education Resource Center
• Young Voices for Justice by Spark Movement, New Moon Girls and Wee The People.
  • This free downloadable toolkit and slide show offer inexpensive, simple, creative ways to support children age 13 and under to engage in social justice activism.
• Mayors Guide: Accelerating Gender Equality by It's Time Network
  • This comprehensive guide provides mayors with a “toolkit” of readily accessible resources, model programs, and checklists for supporting the advancement of women and girls in their communities.
  • Social media toolkit 
• Title IX Know Your Rights Brochure by Fair Play for Girls in Sports and Morrison & Foerster
• Fair Play Act Toolkit Materials by Fair Play for Girls in Sports, Coaching Corps, and Latham & Watkins LLP
  • This toolkit helps community members and park and recreation departments achieve gender equity in local sports programs.
• Educator Toolkit and Coach & Athletic Trainer Toolkit for addressing eating disorders with youth by the National Eating Disorders Association
• Pregnant and Parenting Students' Toolkit helps young mothers who are also studying, succeed in both their education and in raising their child
• Student Survivor Toolkit is meant to help students who have experienced sexual assault, sexual harassment, or dating violence while enrolled at a college, university, or institution of higher education.

• Beautiful: Being an Empowered Young Woman by Naomi Katz
• Girl Talk: Boys, Bullies, and Body Image by Dr. Carol Langlois
• The Gutsy Girl: Escapades for Your Life of Epic Adventure by Caroline Paul
• Fight For Love: Small Group Study by Vanessa Russell
• Enough As She Is: How to Help Girls Move Beyond Impossible Standards of Success to Live healthy, Happy, and Fulfilling Lives by Rachel Simmons
• Embody: Learning to Love Your Unique Body (and quiet that critical voice!) by Connie Sobczak
• My FemTruth: Scandalous Survival Stories by Silvia Young

Our team of youth researchers has been working to understand the experiences and needs of girls and gender-expansive youth amid COVID-19. By understanding your needs, we're able to coordinate with girls' organizations, schools, advocates, policymakers, and government agencies locally in the Bay Area and across California to respond to your needs and advocate for you.

The resources and opportunities here can help you navigate COVID-19 and connect you to peers, caring adults, and other kinds of support.

Participate

• YWCA Berkeley/Oakland’s 7th Annual Stand Against Racism event, “From Declarations to Change: Addressing Racism as a Public Health Crisis”. Final bonus event, Reimagining Through Rematriation, is on Friday, May 7th, at 11am.
• Justice in June, daily 15-45 minute activities to educate yourself on practicing allyship with the Black community

Heal

• Rest for Resistance – A website that uplifts marginalized communities through writing and art, edited by a team of trans people of color
• The Nap Ministry – A blog that explores the science of sleep and Black liberation theology.
• Blackline – A 24/7 national crises support hotline (with text option) to provide a space for peer support, counseling, witnessing, and affirming the lived experiences for folks who are most impacted by systemic oppression (with a BIPOC and LGBTQ+ Black Femme Lens)
• Therapy for Black Girls – A database to find a culturally competent and trusted therapist that understands the experience of navigating the world as a Black woman.
• National Queer and Trans Therapists of Color Network
• Loveland Therapy Fund
• BEAM Wellness Resources – Journal prompts
• “Where Safety Lies” : Spoken Word Poem by Eden Meseret (winner of Betti Ono/Alliance for Girls Radical Visions of Safety Call for Art)
• Affirmations for Girls
• Healing Meditation by Shine

Read

• Law Enforcement Violence Against Women of Color & Trans People of Color: A Critical Intersection of Gender Violence & State Violence
• Oakland is Reimagining Public Safety
• Black History Month Library (folder of articles by or on Black authors and activisits)
• Anti-Racism Resource Guide

Practice

• Anti Police-Terror Project’s First Responders Training Guide
• Survived & Punished’s organizing resources
• INCITE!’s Law Enforcement Violence Toolkit and Community Accountability Toolkit

Advocate

• AB 931, the Police Accountability and Community Protection Act Fact Sheet
• Oakland Police Reform
• MH First