Safety and Self Defense: Project BOLD

Students learn skills to lead safer lives in their homes, relationships, communities, and online.

Girls learn skills and strategies to lead safer lives in their homes, in relationships, in their communities, and online.

From Project BOLD, girls learn that they are worthy of respect and freedom from harm. They learn skills and resources to safeguard their physical autonomy from street, domestic and school violence.

With sensitive, unbiased, carefully created activities and role play, Project BOLD explores:

• Girls’ strengths and abilities
• Responding to a threat with verbal skills
• Learning basic physical self-defense skills
• Distinguishing between an insulting or provocative situation and a truly dangerous one—and how to respond in each case
• Self-defense options, including running, enlisting help, and telling others
• Teasing and bullying
• Sexual harassment, sexual abuse and rape
• Family violence
• Dating abuse
• Prejudice, racism and bias violence

A critical learning experience for all girls, Project BOLD is indispensable and unforgettable, and it helps girls stay safe, so they can focus on building rich lives.