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We will use this grant for the financial, operational and marketing development of the Skarby Foundation, which will allow us to streamline and improve our activities aimed at teenage girls, their parents and carers. The recipients of this project are teenage girls aged 13-18 and their parents and carers, but also our foundation''s management and staff. As part of the grant we will increase the number of people involved in our activities – we will start cooperation with 2 volunteers and employ a fundraising person. We will provide training for our team on promotion, motivational dialogue and crisis coaching. We will create strategy documents and promotional materials. We will conduct workshops for teenage girls and a field game for teenage girls and their parents and carers. The project will be summed up by a closing conference. Thanks to this grant, we will improve our activities and be able to better support teenage girls in taking care of their mental health and self-acceptance. We will establish a dialogue with parents and carers to draw their attention to the need for good communication and relationship building.
Summary of project results
The mission of the Treasures Foundation is to support teenagers in building their self-esteem and self-confidence, working on the positive, extracting potential, and mental health prevention. Thanks to the grant, we managed to build a solid foundation to continue our work, and we addressed some of the first needs. We created a set of strategic documents, consulted with a lawyer, which provide us with legal protection. We completed training courses that equipped us with skills that are helpful in running a foundation with our profile. We gained knowledge in the area of running social media, which will allow us to reach our target group even better - teenagers and their parents. We completed training courses in the area of Motivational Dialogue and Crisis Coaching and Mentoring, thanks to which the program of our future training courses will respond to the broader needs of our recipients. During the implementation of the grant, we established valuable cooperation. New people interested in cooperation have contacted us with current volunteers who will stay with us after the end of the grant, and also thanks to the development of social media. We have gained experience in the area of fundraising, we have managed to test methods of raising funds and obtain the first funds. We have laid the foundations for the community gathered around the foundation, we observe that parents and teenagers return to the workshops we offer, they speak well of our activities (in all surveys conducted after our classes, the average rating regarding recommending the workshops to someone close is 9.9 on a scale of 1 to 10).
We have carried out a series of 4 meetings for teenagers, which mainly concerned building healthy relationships, and we have conducted a field game for mothers and daughters, during which they explored their relationships. Based on the surveys conducted during the workshops, we can see the differences that occur in the participants. Their level of awareness of the need to build the mental well-being of teenagers is increasing (teenagers indicate that their awareness of building their own well-being increased after our workshops by 9 points on a scale of 1 to 10, and they also declare that their knowledge of building relationships increased by an average of 8.6 points (on a scale of 10).
We created the Extraordinary Girl''s Diary, an exercise book that teenagers can use at home and also work with during classes conducted by us. It is a set of tasks that can be adapted to the shape of classes, thanks to which it will be a universal support in conducting future workshops. The activity summarizing the grant was the implementation of a conference that took place in March 2024. It was an event that showed us how many people are interested in the topic of supporting teenagers. It also allowed us to establish an even closer bond with our community. During this event, we summarized the activities resulting from the grant and the work of the Foundation to date, which was warmly received by the audience. This is confirmed by the results of the survey, in which 100% of people rated the time spent at the event as 10 points on a scale from 1 to 10.
We conducted a series of 4 workshops led by psychotherapist Piotr Fraszczyński and coach Anna Bolonek. The workshops were attended by 11 teenagers, whose awareness of their mental well-being increased by an average of 9 points on a scale of 10, based on the results of the survey. A detailed scenario of a field game for mothers and daughters was developed, which will be the basis for the implementation of subsequent editions. This is a document describing in detail the organizational and substantive details and also contains materials ready for printing during subsequent editions. In the game itself, which was conducted on September 16, 2023, 10 patrols took part (10 mothers and 10 daughters). The participants of the event highly rated the substantive value of the meeting and also when asked how much your knowledge of what your relationship looks like increased, we received an average score of 8.15 and when asked how much your knowledge of building relationships increased, the average score was 8.3. As part of the grant, we created the Diary of an Extraordinary Girl. It was prepared substantively, verified by a psychotherapist, graphically designed and finally printed in 68 copies. This is the material that was given to teenagers taking part in the workshops Me and them my relationships. The remaining pieces will be used during subsequent workshops. The diary contains exercises that teenagers do during classes but can also work on them individually at home. All of them are intended to help them understand their values, discover their strengths, and strengthen their self-esteem. This is a permanent element, included in the program that we offer to teenagers on the occasion of the workshops. 1 conference was held to disseminate the foundation''s activities and also to summarize the activities under the grant. 28 people took part in the conference. Individual invitations were received by 112 people, and the local media - 6 entities - also received an invitation to the conference. Among all the conference participants, the average score for the question "Would you recommend the activities of the Skarby foundation to a friend, a teenager, parents, guardians - please rate on a scale of 1-10" was 9.78, while for question 2) Rate on a scale of 1 to 10 how much your knowledge of the mental well-being of teenagers, emerging threats and the impact of adult-teenager relations (including parents, guardians) on the mental condition of young people has increased, the average score was 8.10. A set of 6 strategic documents was created, in the form of: Child Protection Policy, Privacy Policy, template of consent to participate in workshops, use of image, workshop regulations, principles of equality and accessibility, document circulation were created. We implement the principle of transparency by placing the created documents on the foundation''s website. Promotional materials were purchased in the form of 1 roll up, a set of 4 T-shirts, 500 advertising pens, 20 cups and 100 lanyards, 10 kg of advertising fudge. 7 donors were acquired, Indigo - a donation in kind for workshops for teenagers, Do kwadratu restaurant - a donation in kind for workshops for teenagers, 3 payments through the fanimani pay system (anonymous), and 3 individual payments by 2 donors. Over a period of 5 months, based on a contract for services, we created 1 job position for a fundraiser. In the period 04.10.2023-30.04.2024, we started cooperation with 3 volunteers, which will be continued with 2 of them after the end of the grant. The increase in knowledge in the field of promotion and social media was developed during the training conducted by Anna Dzieduch. The training resulted in a communication plan that will be consistently implemented in the following months. An increase in knowledge of motivational dialogue was gained during the training and its effect is the certificate obtained by Małgorzata Cisak. An increase in knowledge of crisis coaching was obtained during the crisis coaching and mentoring course, which allowed Anna Bolonek to obtain the Crisis Consultant Certificate.