Free To Be is a research-backed positive body image program for youth in grades five to nine.
Free To Be empowers boys and girls to reach their full potential by developing media literacy skills, cultivating individual and group strengths, building resilience to social pressures that impact body image and nurturing a positive social environment.
Learning Outcomes
Understand and explain the impact of appearance pressures
1
Identify problems that arise from
viewing manipulated images
2
Identify activities and values, not based on appearance, that are important to them
3
Develop counter-narratives to common stereotypes
4
Identify messages that reinforce and maintain appearance pressures
5
Describe and develop healthy coping strategies for bad body image days
6
Formulate plans of how to encourage a positive body image with their peers
7
Identify creative ways to respond
to stereotypes in social situations
8
Reflect on personal experiences where happiness and confidence were not contingent on appearance
9
Demonstrate body image flexibility by identifying the ways, different bodies have positive and diverse capabilities
10
Explain and identify common stereotypes
11
Develop and create a plan for social change related to body image and material covered in the program
12
Understand the extent to which images in traditional and social media are changed
13
Identify strengths and internal characteristics students like about themselves
14
Understand the negative impact of constraining stereotypes
15
Identify a future version of themselves, which they admire, not based on appearance
16
Help give youth the tools they need to become healthy, vibrant & authentic leaders.
We are currently looking for enthusiastic volunteers to bring the curriculum into classrooms for the 2023-2024 school year. If you are interested in getting involved please complete the volunteer application form below and our team will contact you.
