Mission

Girls’ LEAP is a youth-serving nonprofit organization with over 20 years’ experience delivering gender-specific, out-of-school programming to girls in Greater Boston. Our mission is to disrupt the violence that surrounds girls and nonbinary youth by amplifying their voices, emboldening their courage, and imparting critical life and self-defense skills so they can take on challenges with confidence. Our goals are to: 1) Support youth to cultivate protective factors against violence and its negative effects 2) Prepare youth should they need to defend their boundaries and/or physical safety 3) Build a social-emotional foundation for youth to grow into healthy young adults and leaders 4) Support youth in examining their intersectional identities and issues of equity in their communities