Kate Sorbie, left, and officer Leslie Heisler demonstrate one of the moves to be learned in the self-defense program developed for high school girls. GEORGE NORKUS – For The Macomb Daily ...

It showed a major drop in girls’ self-confidence between 2017, the date of the group’s first survey, and 2023, ... Self-confidence reached its lowest point in 9th grade, ...

Girl Scout Alison (Aly) Luckett of Vienna, an 11th grader at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, coordinated a Self-Defense Workshop that was presented by the Fairfax County ...