AGE UP News & Updates
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Button Making and Other Shenanigans!
Hey it’s Young Amanda and Yee! Today we ate some TASTY enchiladas and checked in with the funniest question. “If you could get a full-sized oil painting of yourself, what would it be?” Many came up with hilarious ideas and answers. After eating our delicious food, Jude and Soriya led us in an activity where…
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First Returners Session of the year!
Hey guys! This is Callie and Kennadi. This is our first time writing a blog post!!!! During our first session of the year we had lots of fun! We had some guests from Laureus and Mercedes Benz come to our first session! We paired up with our guests and taught them some frisbee throws. We…
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AGE UP for Guys!
Applications for the first ever AGE UP for guys are due Friday – get them in ASAP. You can email them to info@allgirleverything.org, or mail them or drop them off at Jefferson Community Center. This is going to be great! AGE UP Guys App
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AGE UP Declares November 7th “Appreciate Amanda” Day
Hi, all. Today’s trip to the Wing Luke Museum kicks off the FIRST AGE UP year without Amanda. Show your appreciation by sending some ego-boosting love her way! ….or not. -Not Amanda
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Let the Fun(draising) Begin!!!
Interested in supporting AGE UP as we enter our fourth year of friendship, fun, and frisbee? AWESOME! Join us for our first annual AGE UP Family Feast, a community fundraiser and celebration bringing together all the beautiful people that are a part of the AGE UP extended family – the youth in our program, their families and mentors, our…
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Spread The Word!
Hey all, a handful of our participants will be competing (with their high school team) at the Amherst Invite on May 4th and 5th! Unfortunately, the cost of the trip poses a significant barrier. Help our girls out by donating here. Every penny and thought counts! Also, AGE-UP is great!
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Hi ! I’m Robyn ! This is my first time writing a blog . Hi I’m Vanessa! This is also my first time writing a blog. Or co-writing a blog? Oh well. Robyn just left for a while to change for her basketball practice but I’ll recap the day we had from where she left…
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February 8th
Hey y’all! AGEUP here! Tonight consisted of a guest speaker, Vijou from the Northwest Network for LGBT Survivors of Abuse (http://nwnetwork.org/), who showed us a few clips from Glee—it’s a pretty cool show. This was the beginning of part two of last weeks session on healthy relationship skills. After the video was played, 15 little…
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February 6, Consent verses Non-Consent
“Yes!” What another awesome day today with the team! We had a lovely check in with everyone to start off the session, along with the delicious food made from the cooking team. We had two sets of great guests to share with us today, Becky George from Planned Parenthood and Hyuntae and Jeena from University…
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Returners Ponder The School To Prison Pipeline
Welcome back, readers! Kelly, of the facilitation group, was kind enough to write the post tonight. So today at AGE UP, we had BURRITOS FOR DINNER! 😀 There were also special drinks made, called horchatas, which tasted AWESOME. After we ate, we checked in with our names, preferred gender pronouns, and what we wanted to be…