The Girls Quest Mentor Program offers support to all matches throughout their duration in the program. Below is some recommended readings for both parents and mentors that can offer insight as you support your daughter/mentee throughout their developmental phases. In addition to the Mentor Program Calendar of Events (which are posted monthly on our website), below is a list of activities your match can check out.

• The Influence of Music and Music Videos
  
• Give Me a Beat How the Music Industry Influences Your Teen's Sense of Style 
• Understanding the Impact of Media on Children and Teens

• Living at an Epicenter of Diabetes, Defiance and Despair
• Why Exercise is Wise
• Eating Disorders Hit Grade School: Have We As A Weight-Obsessed Society Gone Too Far?
• Model Behavior: Today's Teens and the Role Models They Choose
• Understanding Teens
• Adolescent Depression: Helping Depressed Teens
• Girls and Violence

• Standing Up for Number One
• Showing Respect Builds Self-esteem
• Ten Ways to Help Your Child Become Self-Reliant
• LIFE SKILLS: TOOLS FOR SURVIVAL AND SUCCESS
• The Supergirl Dilemma: Girls Feel the Pressure to be Perfect, Accomplished, Thin and Accommodating

• Teenage Drinking Tied to Lifelong Alcohol Woes
• Teens and Alcohol: Preventing that lethal combination

• Back to School: Getting girls into IT
• Intersection of race, sex, science prompts questions:Why are we still talking about this?
• Requisites for success: Stamina boundary-setting - Women in Science Symposium looks at obstacles and strategies
• Girls want to do science
• Preteen girls going high tech

Places
Popular places to visit with your mentee in the New York Metropolitan Area.

• Grand Army Plaza Library
  Brooklyn, NY
  (718) 780-7848
  Subway: 2,3 to Grand Army Plaza
  
• New York Botanical Gardens
  200th St at Southern Blvd.
  Bronx, NY
  (718) 817-8700
  Subway: B,D to Bedford Park 4 to Bedford Park Blvd.- Lehman College
• New York Historical Society
  2 W 77th St. at Central Park West
  NY, NY
  (212) 873-3400
  Subway: B,C to 81st.- Museum of Natural History
• The Bronx Zoo
  Bronx River Parkway at Fordham Rd.
  Bronx, NY
  (718) 367-1010
  Subway: 2, 5 to Pelham Parkway
  Metro-North: to Fordham Rd.Take BX 9 or 12 to the zoo

• Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum
  2 E 91 St. At Fifth Ave.
  New York, NY
  (212) 535-2526
  Subway: 6 to 96th St..
• Jewish Museum
  1109 5th Ave Between 92nd and 93rd St.
  NY, NY
  (212) 423-3225
  Subway: 6 to 96th St.
• Museum for Television and Radio
  25 W 52nd St Between 5th and 6th Avenues
  NY, NY
  (212) 621-6600
  Subway: E to 5th Ave. B,D,F,V to 47-50th Sts. Rockefeller Ctr.
• Dahesh Museum
  580 Madison Avenue at 56th Street
  NY, NY
  (212) 759-0606
  Subway: E to 5th Ave. B,D,F,V to 47-50th Sts. Rockefeller Ctr.
• Guggenheim Museum
  1071 Fifth Avenue
  New York, NY 10128-0173
  (212) 423-3500
  Subway: Take the 4,5,6 to 86th Street. Walk west to 5th Avenue and then north to 89th Street.
• Lower East Side Tenement Museum
  108 Orchard Street
  New York, NY
  (212) 431-0233
  Subway: B.D to Grand Street, F to Delancey, JMZ to Essex
• Brooklyn Museum of Art
  200 Eastern Parkway
  Brooklyn, NY
  (718) 501-6331
  Subway: 2,3 to Grand Army Plaza
• American Museum of Natural History
  Central Park West at 79th St.
  NY, NY
  (212) 769-5800
  amnh.org
  Subway: B,C to 81st.- Museum of Natural History
• Museum of Modern Art
  11 West 53rd Street
  212-708-9400
  www.moma.org
  Subway: E or V to Fifth Avenue/53 Street; B, D, or F to 47/ 50 Streets/Rockefeller Center
• Whitney Museum of Art
  945 Madison Ave near 75th St.
  NY, NY
  (212) 570-7745
  www.whitney.org
  Subway: 6 to 77th Street
• Smithsonian Museum of the American Indian
  1 Bowling Green
  NY, NY
  (212) 514-3714
  americanindian.si.edu
  
• Studio Museum in Harlem
  144 W. 125 St. Bet. Malcolm X and Lenox Avenues
  NY, NY
  (212) 864-4500
  Subway: 2, 3 to 125 St.
  
• Water Front Museum
  Columbia Street Marine Terminal, Gowanus Bay
  699 Columbia St.
  Red Hook, Brooklyn, NY
  (718) 624-4719
  Free shuttle from various sections of brooklyn. Call for more info.

• New York CitySearch
  http://newyork.citysearch.com
• GoCityKids - New York
  http://www.gocitykids.com/?area=197
• Annual New York City Events
  http://new.york.eventguide.com/annual_events_overview.html
• Free Events in New York City
  http://nyc.freecityevents.com/
• Broadway Discount Tickets - About.com
  http://gonyc.about.com/od/broadwayshows/a/discount_ticket.htm
• List of New York City Walking Tours
  http://gonyc.about.com/od/toursbr/
• High 5

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