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1776 Mentor Avenue

Cincinnati, OH 45212

(513) 366-2490
  

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The Harmony Garden aims is to build community-academic partnerships to promote and sustain the health of girls.  We aim to partner with girls, their caregivers, community stakeholders, and organizations serving girls to design approaches that empower all girls to achieve their full potential. 

 

The activities in the Harmony Garden include:

 

1)    Bringing academic institutions together with community organizations for the purpose of generating research projects related to girls’ health.

2)     Training girls and other community residents to carry out research and translate their data into action and to inform future research as well as to bring about changes in the environment that specifically affect girls.

3)   Assisting organizations to improve their evaluation practices and designing curriculums and programming opportunities that strengthen girls, their caregivers, and the communities in which they live.

 
The Harmony Garden is a response to pulse:A Study on the Status of Women and Girls in Greater Cincinnati funded by The Women's Fund of The Greater Cincinnati Foundation. The pulse project culminated with four imperatives for improving outcomes for the region’s females, through a strategy based on partnerships between community organizations and academic institutions. One of the four imperatives is “grow strong girls.” One of the lessons learned from our research is that there are tremendous health disparities between girls living in the city of Cincinnati and those living outside of the city. Harmony Garden will take a leading role in determining what works for preteen girls, particularly those with greatest health disparities, and in translating lessons learned from research into education and practice.