High school programs we envision a world where every girl feels valued, safe, and prepared to achieve her dreams. We focus on the whole girl from age 5-18: her health, education and development as a leader. Our continuum of academic, social, and community enrichment programs is offered at no cost, to remove barriers to participation. For the entire school year, all of our school districts across the county continued remote learning due to the global pandemic and all of our direct serivce programming also used remote learning. Continued on schedule owe offered programming through zoom meetings, google hangouts and at times over the phone providing wellness checks. We adjusted our program delivery hours, times and frequency in order to accommodate the change in the traditional school day schedule. Depending on the sites, we provided programming during school day and afterschool hours. The focus of our programs remained the same. High school programs include:-eureka! Teen achievement program (grades 8-12): fostering girls'interest in science, technology, engineering, and math, providing them with valuable summer internship opportunities, and preparing them for college during the school year and during the summer. -Advocating change together (act) project (grades 9-12): a youth-led research and advocacy program.-Heart (helping everyone achieve respect together) (grades 9-12): a peer health and sexuality education program.-Sihle (sisters informing, healing, living, empowering) sihle is a peer-led, group-level, social-skills training intervention designed to reduce sexual risk behaviors among african american female teenagers who are at risk for acquiring or transmitting HIV/stds. In addition to HIV prevention, the program addresses relationships, dating and sexual health within the specific context of the female african american teenage experience, drawing upon both cultural and gender pride to give participants the skills and motivations to avoid HIV and other stds.-Girls resource center (grades 6-12): a downtown oakland hub where girls access innovative and responsive services and programming. Girls are offered opportunities to take positive risk in exploring adventure sports, learn self-defense principles, become the next generation of women recording artists and engineers, learn about nutrition and healthy eating, workout in the fitness center, participate in yoga, develop leadership skills and create change within their community. In addition, girls make new friends, become more confident, find their own voice, and receive academic support and college and career readiness in a positive allgirl space.Our girls report feeling more motivated towards academic achievement, positive risk taking, and setting healthy boundaries. This is reflected in 100% of our seniors who graduate from high school each year (in comparison with only 66% of their peers in oakland who graduate) and 100% are bound for post-secondary education.

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