Best Friends Foundation

The best friends foundation provides an educational curriculum and/or group assemblies in the metropolitan washingotn dc area for adolescent girls and boys, aged 10-18, which promotes self-respect through the practice self -control by providing skills and guidance which helps them avoid risk behavior. The five basic goals of the program are:1. To develop critical thinking skills in adolescent girls and boys to enable them to progress from the concrete to the formal operational state of reasoning.2. To develop a sense of self-respect and self-worth through achievement and community service.3. To enrich the lives of adolescent girls and boys by promoting thier aspirations and providing decision making skills.4. To incorporate the school an families into the adolescent girls and boy's support system.5. To provide positive peer groups for 10-18 year old girls in which they are valued members and in which they have a sense of connection to thier school and to each other.