Life Currency
Empowering a girl empowers her community. Through our signature program, Life Currency, we take a global approach to empowerment. Through instruction and exploration, girls increase their native and foreign language skills, exercise their creative talents, learn to lead and communicate across cultures, while polishing their social graces. If you are interested in bringing the Institute's Life Currency program to your school or organization, please complete this Program Request Form or email info@laceinstitute.org and place [Life Currency] in the subject line.
LACE Mentor
This program pairs a LACE student with an Institute volunteer who serves as the student's mentor for a designated term. The mentor is responsible for developing a relationship with her mentee and her mentee's parents through established guidelines. The mentor provides a support system for the student and the two work on establishing techniques for dealing with complex social, emotional, and organizational situations. While serving as a role model, the mentor may also participate in recreational activities and explore present and future academic opportunities with her mentee. A mentor ordinarily devotes between one and five hours a week with her mentee, on a one-on-one basis.
LACE Workshops
We provide public and customized private workshops to educate students, teachers, and parents on various subjects. To schedule a workshop for your school or organization, complete this Workshop Request Form or email info@laceinstitute.org and place [WORKSHOP] in the subject line. Below is a non-exclusive list of the workshops we offer.
- General Health and Wellness
Hygiene is important in relationships for school, for work, and to function in society in general. Children must be taught the importance of good personal hygiene at a very young age. Regular showering, brushing and flossing, hand washing, and wearing clean pressed clothes are not things children do without being told. Instilling these and other good hygiene habits in young children will ensure that they carry them into adulthood.
In this workshop, we make hygiene fun! Using interactive modules, we demonstrate the importance of a daily morning and evening routine, dental hygiene, avoiding the spread of germs, moisturizing, deodorizing, eating, sleeping, and exercising. Other topics include puberty and the changes it causes to a girl's body. This workshop gives girls and parents the opportunity to share their thoughts and ask questions about the crucial role that hygiene and appearance play in a person's overall confidence and how the public perceives her.
- Fresh Food v. Fast Food
Good nutrition is the bedrock of lifelong health. Yet, girls face a myriad of challenges when it comes to making every day healthy food choices. These challenges often impact a girl's body image and self confidence. This workshop is designed to educate parents and their daughters about forming good eating habits; the short and long-term benefits of eating fresh fruits and vegetables and other whole foods; and the potential harmful effects of eating processed foods. We also include an interactive food prep session!!
- Hair Health & Maintenance
Hair communicates volumes to people. Because it's a prominent feature, it is a key element in a person's overall appearance. Like most things, healthy hair starts at home with a daily, weekly, and monthly routine. In this interactive workshop, licensed cosmetologists explore:
- Scalp care
- Cleansing, conditioning, and trimming routines
- Selecting the right hair care products
- Nutrition that promotes healthy hair growth
- Understanding hair types from dry to oily; coarse to fine; and short to long
- Heat exposure and chemical applications
- Character Education
Developing positive character traits in children is key. The goal of character education is to raise socially responsible individuals with a firm value system. Our Character Education instructors teach the importance of Integrity, Self-Discipline, Perseverance, Courage, Responsibility, Citizenship, Loyalty, and building a reputation of the same. Instructors also explore Conflict Resolution, Bullying, and Helping Others.
- Professional Etiquette
With the proliferation of technologically based communication (e.g. portable phones, email, IM, pins, texts), youths lack the formality associated with in-person interaction. We impart these necessary intangible soft skills using our teaching methodology of instruction, demonstration, and then practical application. These soft skills include greetings, teamwork, collaboration, networking, active listening, negotiating, and work ethic. We also explore the advantages and perils associated with social media.
- Dining Etiquette
Guess what, it's not cool to burp at the dinner table! Mastering good dining etiquette is an important step in building good social grace. Good social grace is paramount to positive interactions and building relationships. In this workshop we take on the often daunting challenge of teaching children dining etiquette. But, we make it FANCY and FUN!! We cover critical rules including table settings, napkin use, elbow rights and responsibilities, using napkins and utensils, passing and reaching, leaving the table, seating, serving, when to begin eating, and saying "please" and "thank you"!
LACE Speaker's Box
Our small squadron of speakers focus on the development, empowerment, and leadership of girls. Our lectures and interactive discussions are focused around motivating girls to find greatness in themselves, accept and conquer challenges, and realize their own goals and dreams. We have an array of presentations for schools and community groups that can be customized to meet the needs of each audience. For more information or to request a speaker for your next event, complete and submit this Speaker Request Form or email info@laceinstitute.org and place [SPEAKER REQUEST] in the subject line.
LACE Guidance
School guidance counselors have a myriad of responsibilities including academic advising, administering and evaluating assessments, evaluating transcripts, and implementing enrichment programs. Often, they balance these duties while providing support to students who are in crisis
or in need of social or emotional assistance. They work late and frequently take their work home at night. The responsibility of working with hundreds of students and striving to provide each with the personal attention he or she needs can be overwhelming.
To assist counselors, students, and parents, LACE has compiled an exhaustive database of resources that are locally, regionally, nationally, and internationally situated. Schedule a meeting with an Institute Advisor if your daughter is interested in theatre, dance, mathematics, science, physics, agriculture, creative writing, journalism, or foreign languages. Advisors also assist with academic assessments and advising. For more information or to schedule an appointment with an advisor, complete and submit this Guidance Request Form or email info@laceinstitute.org and place [Guidance] in the subject line.
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