Cool Girls

Our Mission

Cool Girls is dedicated to the self-empowerment of girls in low-income neighborhoods. We provide the path of potential success by showing them how to make positive choices. These tools allow the girls we serve to achieve academic success, break the cycle of teen pregnancy and poverty and the ability to overcome the barriers of racism and sexism. Our program allows girls to gain confidence in her and provides herself with a broader view of the world. We offer the tools to help our girls live healthy and productive lives through academic support, health and life skills development, mentoring relationships, and field trips. Cool Girls, Inc. is able to give low-income girls a chance to become a successful educated woman. Founded in 1989, Cool Girls started as a small girls? club in the East Lake Meadows housing development, a community with a notorious reputation for violence. The girls involved named their new club ?The Cool Girls of East Lake? and Cool Girls was born. The agency?s philosophy of working closely with girls living in low-income areas to identify their needs and provide programs to address those needs was also established during this time. The work of Cool Girls is unique and effective. It is our vision to create a learning environment where girls are empowered to succeed in academic, social and professional arenas. By taking a comprehensive approach to developing girls we understand that each of our program components are necessary and interrelated to the others. Our Multi-level model for reaching girls in need will be implemented in 11 school sites in DeKalb and Fulton Counties, reaching over 500 girls from low-income communities during the 2005-2006 school year.