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The Best Friends program is a youth development program with a character building curriculum for adolescent girls with messages of abstinence from sex, drugs, alcohol, tobacco and violence. We also promote healthy living styles with fitness and nutrition. Curriculum sessions for Best Friends take place once a month for 90 minutes during the school day. The girls also participate in fitness sessions twice a month and they have weekly meetings with their school coordinators and mentors. Each Best Friend girl has a mentor as well as a Best Friend buddy. We promote positive attitudes and behavior through role modeling and instruction. Best Friends girls also take part in several field trips during the year, cultural activities and community service. We have a program at the end of the school year to recognize all of our girls as well as parents and family. Each girl receives a T-shirt, a journal, a diary and jewelry as part of the program. We believe that if we give children our best, they will respond with their best.
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Diamond Girls
 In Diamond Girls & Best Men Leadership (the high school component of the Best Friends and Best Men programs) we have an objective of developing adolescent High School students, through the mentoring of positive role models, to become responsible individuals, encouraging them to abstain from sex, drugs, alcohol and violence, and to participate in character education. Career exploration, leadership development, and community service opportunities are among a few of the supplemental opportunities that are exercised.
The Diamond Girls Program and Learning for Life/Exploring share common objectives in developing leadership skills, building character, maintaining abstinence from drugs, alcohol, violence and sexual activity until marriage, and creating self-reliance in our young people. To achieve these objectives the Diamond Girls and the Best Men Leadership Programs, of Milwaukee Public Schools, and Learning for Life/Exploring Program are joining together to form an Explorer Post that will incorporate responsibility and leadership opportunities by partnering with local community agencies (i.e. Red Cross, Fire Department, Law Enforcement agencies, the trades, etc.).
This partnership will involve female youth who have been either previously involved with the Best Friends program or have a strong desire to reach their full potential. The program will stress a commitment to be free from sex, violence and drugs. Community service is one of the key components to the program. The participants will have the opportunity to work with and meet several career fields such as: law enforcement agents, emergency service employees (fire department), medical, law and the trades to name a few. Diamond Girls Permission Slip (word doc.)
Health is Happiness Day
Parent Workshops
Supplemental Resources
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