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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

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…

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!

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…

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…

“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…

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…

Returners Amanda and Gaby led today’s (Jan. 23rd) session. In the first activity, we were all broken into three groups and given a description of someone. We  had to discuss the characteristics of each person and see what information about the person we could find just from a three sentence description. One described a social…

Speaking of can openers, today we’ve talked about healthy and unhealthy relationships. We opened our bottled or you know – canned up feelings and released them to a colorful orangey paper. But before that, let’s get down to the food. Mmm. As all you iCarly fans out there know, the famous spaghetti tacos are creative…

BIG NEWS HERE!! A great organization, The Women’s Funding Alliance, is hosting a fundraiser on AgeUP’s behalf. ‘Transforming Girl’s Future through Sports’ is trying to raise money for four programs and will match dollar for dollar up to $5,000, a potential for $10,000!! http://www.catapult.org/project/transforming-girls%E2%80%99-futures-through-sports “Women’s Funding Alliance is collaborating with four organizations–AGE UP, Girls on…