Introducing Girls Rise Up!
A mother is often one of the central caregivers and most essential female role models in a girl’s life. The loss of a mother for a developing girl is frequently devastating, isolating, confusing, and has life-long impact, even when people of support remain in a girl’s life after her mother’s death. Though we know that a mother can never be replaced, we believe that connection with other youth motherless daughters and the presence of an adult female will make a deeply positive impact in a grieving girl’s life.
Girls Rise Up – She Climbs Mountains is proud to offer the following no-cost programs for girls ages 8-18 who have experienced the loss of their mothers:
Gatherings
Girls Rise Up believes in the healing power of community and offers girls who have experienced mother loss an opportunity to connect with each other through social gatherings. The goals of our gatherings are:
To provide opportunities for youth motherless daughters to connect with one another through fun, creative, interactive, and community-building activities.
To create community for youth motherless daughters so that they are able to navigate the world with others who truly understand the profound loss of a mother.
Social gatherings will include, but are not limited to, art therapy, jewelry-making workshops, cooking classes, writing workshops, outdoor exploration, yoga, meditation, and empowerment exercises at no cost to the girls and their families.
Click here for our list of upcoming gatherings!
Mentor Program
Girls Rise Up believes the presence of an adult woman who is available to listen and support is a critical connection for a girl who has experienced the loss of her mother. In partnership with Big Brothers Big Sisters Twin Cities, we offer a mentor program that pairs adult motherless daughters with motherless girls. The goals of our mentor program are:
To create connection between youth motherless daughters and adult women who are willing and able to provide mother-like care and guidance that is essential for developing girls.
To support relationships between mentors and mentees that inspires girls to grow and maintain their self-confidence and self-worth.
Click here if you are a caregiver who would like to find a mentor for your girl.
Click here if you are an adult motherless daughter interested in becoming a mentor.
Through our partnership with BBBS, we are able to support girls and mentors who speak languages other than English. If you are a girl or woman who speaks Hmong, Spanish, Somali, or ASL, please let us know and we will work to match you accordingly.
She Climbs Mountains/Girls Rise Up believes that the loss of a mother through estrangement, abandonment, or separation is devastating and causes a unique grief for a daughter living without her mother. However, at this time, our organization only provides programs for women and girls who have experienced mother loss through death.
She Climbs Mountains/Girls Rise Up is an inclusive organization and welcomes all humans who identify as daughters. Additionally, though we use the pronouns she/her/hers, we welcome individuals who use pronouns such as they/them/theirs and/or other gender-neutral pronouns.