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Peace Corps, Washington, DC. Information Collection and Exchange Div. – 2001
Camp GLOW (Girls Leading Our World) began in Romania in 1995 as a weeklong leadership camp with the purpose of encouraging young women to become active citizens by building their self-esteem and confidence, increasing their self-awareness, and developing their skills in goal-setting, assertiveness, and career and life planning. Since that first…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Assertiveness, Career Planning, Females
Porter, William Wales – 1975
An innovative therapeutic use of the wilderness environment was explored. A purely recreational outdoor camping program organized in 1971 for economically deprived youths subsequently developed into an outdoor therapeutic program designed for problem youth. The wilderness environment was employed as an effective treatment milieu for helping youths…
Descriptors: Assertiveness, Attitudes, Behavior Change, Environmental Research
Workers Educational Association, Sunderland (England). Northern District. – 1986
Four adult educators from the North East/Brazil Project spent three months in Brazil in 1986 on "pilot" education ventures. The areas selected for collaboration were health and safety for lay officers and induction/leadership training for women. "Methods" courses were selected as the means to train lay officers as discussion…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Assertiveness, Females, Foreign Countries