ROSIE'S GIRLS^®
BRINGING THE PROGRAM TO YOUR COMMUNITY

If you'd like to bring the Rosie's Girls Summer Program to your community, we'd like to help make it happen! Staff members from Vermont Works for Women have successfully supported a variety of groups (municipalities, nonprofits and technical centers) to pilot and sustain the program in their communities. In our experience, successful replication depends on the excitement of a hard-working, determined individual or group of individuals who commit to working together (and with us) to plan and implement the program.

Since 2001, staff from VWW have worked with sites across the nation including: Santa Monica, CA, Cleveland, OH, four cities in South Carolina, Cincinnati, OH, Brattleboro, VT and Vergennes/Middlebury, VT. Approximately 250 girls nationwide participate in a Rosie's Girls Summer Program each summer.

WHAT' S INCLUDED WITH A ROSIE'S GIRLS PROGRAM LICENSE?

The Rosie's Girls Summer Program and curriculum are trademarked and owned by Vermont Works for Women, Inc. and can be licensed to sites nationwide. An organization or team that purchases a license to operate the program receives significant support and guidance from Vermont Works for Women. The support is most intensive in the first year, including:

• Technical support to provide guidance, reflection and perspective and to answer questions about planning and running the program;
  
• Copies of the Rosie's Girls Summer Program curriculum - a detailed, comprehensive set of materials that covers all program components;
  
• Copies of the Administrator's Toolbox - a compendium of nuts-and-bolts materials used in program administration such as sample grant applications, forms and marketing materials;
  
• Evaluation Tools - used to provide qualititative and quantitative information about a participant's experience in the program
  
• Access to the national network of Rosie's Girls Summer Program providers
  
  VWW maintains an ongoing commitment to support Rosie's Girls program sites in subsequent years through:

• A limited amount of technical assistance
  
• Fostering communication, strategizing and information sharing amongst all Rosie's Girls sites
  
• Providing updates to the Rose's Girls Summer Program materials, including the Administrator's Toolbox and the Rosie's Girls Summer Program Curriculum.

“In Santa Monica we call Vermont Works for Women “the mothership.” As our program grows and deepens, we continue to thank the original sponsors, advisors and curriculum developers for this outstanding, dynamic program. We are deeply appreciative of the ongoing support we receive from Elizabeth Shayne, one of the visionary women who conceived of and designed the Rosie’s Girls research-based curriculum. After seven years of administering our program, we still consider the Rosie’s Girls curriculum provided by VWW to be a living document that guides, inspires and encourages our work. The program gives us a strong foundation and background theory in girls development, while allowing us the flexibility to creatively customize our own articulation of the Rosie’s Girls vision. The girls and parents who have been a part of our Rosie’s Girls program are proud to be a part of the national Rosie’s Girls community guided by Vermont Works for Women.”

If you’d like to find out more about bringing the Rosie’s Girls Summer Program to your community, call us or email us today.

Kristen C. Mullins
Director of Programs
Vermont Works for Women
802-655-8900 ext. 108

kmullins@vtworksforwomen.org