BFF: Be a Friend First and Stop Bullying for Good
The BFF: Be a Friend First program teaches girls how to recognize bullying and resolve conflicts. It teaches them how to boost their confidence and how to deal with mean girls and cliques. How to be a better friend and how to have better friends. And, most importantly, to find the right ways to stop bullying.
Here is how GSUSA describes the Be A Friend First Program:
BFF (Be a Friend First)BFF is designed to work with the aMAZE! Journey, Girl Scouts' highly acclaimed leadership program
BFF (Be a Friend First)BFF is designed to work with the aMAZE! Journey, Girl Scouts' highly acclaimed leadership program
- The aMAZE! Journey gives middle school girls valuable skills to develop healthy relationships, prevent bully behavior, and become peacemakers in their schools and communities.
- In BFF, girls get to explore thorny issues like peer pressure, stereotyping, gossip, and cliques through engaging role-plays, creative writing, games, and discussion exercises. They can also create and lead projects in their schools and communities to tackle bullying issues on their terms and turf!
- BFF easily integrates into existing health or character education classes, or can even serve as an after-school program in the community.
- Healthy relationships are the solution to bully prevention. BFF inspires girls to lead one another—with friendship!