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To provide adolescent girls with a continuum of services, activities, and opportunities. Our comprehensive,asset-based approach will empower girls to be goal-directed, self-sufficient, and to imagine and fulfill a new destiny.

Description:
Gwen's Girls provides a comprehensive continuum of non-traditional wellness and asset-based services to girls between the ages of 8 and 18 in Allegheny County. The program is gender specific and delivered in a nurturing environment.

Reunification/Reintegration Services--To facilitate the transition from placement into the family, the community and the school.

Prevention Services--To assist and empower girls who reside in the communities of Wilkinsburg, East Liberty, Homewood, Point Breeze, and Regent Square.

History:
With the onset of retirement, Commander Gwen Elliott
started a new agency in January, 2002. Gwen's Girls
was established to provide a nurturing and supportive place for at-risk girls to reach their dreams. This agency is the culmination of Gwen's Vision to make the world a better place for women and girls where
barriers to race, sex, and class will not prevent achievement. Gwen's Girls is the next step for Gwen
Elliott to fulfill her promise to her mother to "Be Good."

Contact people:

Gwen Elliott, Founder, (phone), (email) Lynn Knezevich, Executive Director, (phone), (email) Alison Boyle, Volunteer/Activities/Mentor Coordinator, (phone), (email)

Address:

7230 McPherson Blvd. Lexington Technology Park Pittsburgh, PA 15208 (See a map)

Web Site: http://www.gwensgirls.org

Directions:

From Downtown Pittsburgh, take 376 East(Parkway) and take the Edgewood/Swissvale exit. Stay right at fork and go up to stop sign. Go left at the Stop Sign. Go up to light at South Braddock and take a right. Follow. . . (more)   Nearest Bus Stop: Penn Avenue & Lexington, 10 min. minute walk For maps or information, please see http://www.portauthority.org/ride/ride.html

Miscellaneous Information

Are court referrals welcomed?
	Yes
Is act 33/34 clearance required of your volunteers?
	Yes

Overall Experience   
It was an extremely rewarding and enriching experience for me as an individual.

posted on November 17, 2004