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Enhancing Canadian Girls’ Resilience Through Girls-Only Programming, Ayesha Umme-Jihad
Enhancing Canadian Girls’ Resilience Through Girls-Only Programming, Ayesha Umme-Jihad
Theses and Dissertations (Comprehensive)
Canadian girls face a number of complex issues as they transition through girlhood and into adolescence. Despite the barriers they face, girls can be resilient with the development of internal and external assets. Presently, we know that protective factors developed in girls-only programs between the critical ages of 9 and 13 enhance girls’ resilience in the short-term (Alcade, Hayward, Loomis, & Hodgson, 2012). This thesis project operationalizes protective factors as confidence, critical thinking skills, connectedness, and parental relationships. Risk factors are operationalized as adversity within environments, depression, negative behaviours, and substance use. A mixed methods approach is used to investigate …