Programs
Introducing ‘Bright futures mentoring’, Brighton's innovative youth wellbeing mentoring service, bringing targeted 1-1 support for young people in Brighton and Hove. Mentoring towards shining and thriving!
- Emotional education - support to understand and build healthier emotions.
- Anxiety and mood management - targeted support around managing anxiety and low mood through self care and coping tools.
- Mentoring support - long term mentoring support around stress management and goal setting.
- Parental support and guidance to help understand and improve your child’s mental well-being.
Evidence based targeted support around: Anxiety and worry, low mood, stress management, friendships and relationships, exam stress, school issues, conflict, poor self worth, low confidence, body image, gender and identity. Underpinned by a resilience framework.
Our Mission
To engage with young people and improve their mental wellbeing, through purposeful conversations and mentoring.
What We Do
We engage, inspire and encourage young people to feel happier and less anxious with improved mental wellbeing.
We engage through meaningful conversations about how to understand our emotions better.
We inspire and support young people to feel less anxious through healthy self-care and coping tools.
We encourage personal growth through mentoring and coaching, and relationship-building.
Our proven results place young people on a pathway to greater mental wellbeing.
Our Program Pillars
- Emotional education - support to identify emotions and increase emotional vocabulary, build new ways of healthy emotional expression, and how to tolerate uncomfortable emotions.
- Anxiety and mood management - tools to manage and improve anxiety and low mood through self care, improving self talk, coping skills, and thought awareness, thought challenging and thought reframing.
- Mentoring and coaching - stress management, identifying strengths, goal setting, problem solving skills, handling transitions, managing conflict, establishing a growth mindset.
- Social media and smartphone support
- Parental support - support for parents to understand their child ‘s mental health and how to manage anxiety and low mood.
Girls Net - A 6 week online mentoring program
"best hours of my life"
Mentoring to see them safely through challenging times
A safe space to talk while in the comfort of home
Healthy ways of coping
Practising self-care
Building resilience and confidence
Belonging to a friendly circle of girls
Girls’ Net is a six-week journey for girls equipping them for times of challenge. This course of six 1¼ hour sessions in a small group of same-age girls is guided by a trained Girls’ Net Mentor. In between the sessions, girls have an interactive notebook online to prompt further exploration of each week’s topic. Girls’ Net is currently held online for girls grouped by age (8-18 years)
The mission of the Girls’ Net programme is to equip girls for times of challenge and change, through sharing healthy ways of coping and practising self-care, in a small group of same-age girls in a private, safe space in the comfort of their own homes. By the end of the course, the girls not only have some down-to-earth tools for managing their emotions, but they’ve also had the shared experience of support.
Feedback from girls:
"best hours of my life" (age 11)
"really empowering" (age 11)
"something to look forward to" (age 11)
“A chance to be with real girls who won’t judge or be mean, and to talk and discuss daily problems and learn new ways to think about stuff.” (age 14)
“I like it that what I say is kept private and I have a choice in everything.” (age 12)
“Chatting with other girls and getting to know them and sharing your feelings about the topics.” (age 13)
“Nice to see people outside of school + fun.” (age 11)
“My daughter loved Girl’s Net so much – I’d definitely recommend it.” (parent of 10-year-old)
About Rites for Girls CIC
Rites for Girls is a Community Interest Company which offers six-week Girls’ Net online and year-long Girls Journeying Together groups in person for preteen girls to support them into and through puberty as they make the transition to secondary school, guidance for parents and training for women wanting to support girls as they grow up. The organisation was founded in 2011 by Kim McCabe: counsellor, parent mentor and author of ‘From Daughter to Woman, Parenting Girls Safely Through Their Teens’ (Robinson, 2018). For more information visit: www.ritesforgirls.com
Girls’ Net Mentor Program
The pandemic has significantly increased mental distress among girls, leading to heightened anxiety, social withdrawal, and a sense of disconnection from their surroundings.
In response to this growing concern, Rites for Girls has developed a short series designed to equip girls with tools to enhance their resilience during these challenging times. The Girls’ Net Mentor Program aims to inspire and empower girls through online mentoring and storytelling, guiding them to build inner strength and forge meaningful friendships.
By providing online guidance and fostering a supportive peer group, the program will model ways to thrive amidst change. Girls will learn valuable empowerment techniques and embark on a journey to strengthen their inner resources, emerging from these transformative times with confidence and resilience.
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