"Girls Can Do Anything!": Raising Queens Conference 2025

One Village Alliance is excited to announce the launch of Raising Queens at the 14th Annual "Girls Can Do Anything!" Conference - the Delaware Valley's official International Day of the Girl event!

"Girls Can Do Anything!" is a youth-led, social justice movement with a mission to redefine womanhood and what it means to be a girl. We educate, empower, and inspire purpose-driven girls by connecting them to mentors, resources, and opportunities to turn their dreams into reality. We harness the power within women and girls through transformative wellness experiences, high-impact service learning, and a strong culture of sisterhood and mentorship—supported by phenomenal females whose inspiring life stories prove that, with the right support, “Girls Can Do Anything!”

AGENDA

8:30 a.m. - Check-In & Wellness Party!!

Pink Carpet Paparazzi & Photobooth Fun(Adults return for Parents Summit at 1PM!)

9:30 am - 10:00 a.m. - Welcome Address & Breakfast

Welcome Energy: Laeia, MC/Vibes Curator

10 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. - “Tik-Tok Challenge"

Highlighting what it means to be a Queen through of self-love, leadership, resilience, and sisterhood!

10:30 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. - “ Opening Plenary”

Interactive dialogue on success, resilience, happiness, health, and wellness.

11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. - "Sessions in Socks"

Each girl will experience compelling conversations, engaging activities and hands on workshops led by fabulous female wellness practitioners.

12:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. - "The Queens Table" w/ DJ Kiss

Chat & Chew with phenomenal female mentors. Lunch provided by woman owned Chic-Fil-A Concord Mall!

Royal Runway & Artistic Performance featuring phenomenal female role models and girl attendees walking in their footsteps!

1:00 p.m.- 3:00 p.m. Parent Summit

Dr. Helene and Chris Depelche, This session welcomes parents and grandparents raising girls in a highly interactive dialogue, design to empower participants with knowledge, skills, and resources sharing to achieve: better communication; stronger relationships; and healthier outcomes for our daughters!

2:30 p.m.- 3:00 p.m. Closing Remarks/Affirmations

REMEMBER: To register for the conference, you must:

• Be a girl or raising a girl (aged 9 -17).
• Complete the ENTIRE online application.
• Arrive for Check-In at 8:30 am.
• Understand that space is limited! GCDA 2025 registration will CLOSE for on-site registrants immediately once we reach max capacity.

PARENTS! By registering your daughter, you acknowledge that:

• Parent attendance is welcome at the PARENT SUMMIT only with adult check-in at 1PM.
• A completed registration serves as an agreement to OVA's photo and liability waiver .
• You will assume full responsibility for your daughter before the event opens at 8:30 am and after the conference closes at 3:00 pm.
• Our goal is to create a safe environment where attendees feel comfortable discussing various issues impacting our youth. Therefore, conversations will likely touch on sensitive matters, which will be handled responsibly by trained, culturally competent adult facilitators.

Participants with needs that require special accommodations/accessibility please call 855-Youth ED to ensure that we are well prepared to create an inclusive experience for each individual. This number can be used to reach your child at anytime during the event.

One Village Alliance's GCDA Raising Queens Conference

Born from the need to protect and elevate our girls during a time of collective challenge and transformation, Raising Queens is a movement rooted in data, community wisdom, and unapologetic love.

This is our response to a growing emergency, as declared by the CDC and reinforced by lived experience:

• A national youth mental health crisis,
• Gun violence disrupting homes and learning environments,
• Racism and gender injustice woven into the fabric of daily life, and
• Climate disasters disproportionately impacting communities of color.

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In this reality, Raising Queens rises as a call to nurture power, purpose, and healing. We believe every girl is a Queen in the making—and deserves the tools, spaces, and community to reclaim her crown.

• Affirming the royalty within Black and Indigenous girls by celebrating their brilliance, resilience, creativity, and joy;
• Creating sacred spaces for sisterhood, storytelling, and self-expression—free from harm and full of possibility;
• Confronting crisis with care, addressing the unique challenges girls of color face in education, health, safety, and identity;
• Centering girl-led leadership that turns lived experience into powerful advocacy and systems change;
• Strengthening intergenerational bonds and honoring ancestral wisdom at the intersection of gender, racial, and economic justice.

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Data Driven Need: The GCDA, Raising Queens Conference is a powerful response to the urgent need to uplift, affirm, and equip girls at one of the most pivotal points in their lives. Now, more than ever, our girls need spaces that nurture every part of their being—mind, body, and spirit.

The CDC’s 2023 Youth Risk Behavior Survey reports that 4 in 10 students experienced persistent sadness or hopelessness, 2 in 10 seriously considered suicide, and nearly 1 in 10 attempted suicide—with female students disproportionately affected. These statistics are a call to action.

The Raising Queens Conference exists to answer this call. By creating an environment that cultivates resilience, celebrates identity, and empowers every girl, this conference will provide the tools to embrace wholeness, honor worth, and step boldly into the future—not just as young women, but as Queens prepared to lead, influence, and transform their communities.

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