Phase OneLive now
Ages 12–17
SEL & Resilience for Adolescence
Social-emotional learning and resilience-building for girls, delivered in group homes, alternative schools, juvenile detention centers, and community sites across Milwaukee and Dallas.
GIRLHOOD TO WOMANHOOD
Girls become who they're meant to be — together.
Empowering girls to be seen, heard, and understood - walking with them through every next stage of life, from girlhood into womanhood, through social-emotional learning, mentorship, and a village that stays.
Rooted in
MKE · DAL
Method
SEL + mentorship
Journey
12 → 24
you belong here
A promise
Seen. Heard. Understood.
SeenHeardUnderstoodResilientSisterhoodBecoming
Our Mission
To walk with her - every next stage.
Social Butterflii exists to empower girls to be seen, heard, and understood - walking with them through each next stage of life, from girlhood into womanhood.
Our core focus is social-emotional learning for girls from under-resourced communities, with a deep commitment to at-risk girls in juvenile detention centers and alternative schools, alongside community programming that reaches girls wherever they already are - Milwaukee is our year-round home base, with Dallas programming concentrated in the summer months.
Social Butterflii serves girls specifically through SEL, resilience-building, and transitional living - while our career and college readiness programming is open to all youth ages 16–19.
"Every girl deserves a mirror that tells the truth, and a circle that helps her see it."
The Journey
Three phases.
One girl, all the way through.
We meet girls in adolescence and stay with them as they grow into young women - with the housing, mentorship, and stability to make that possible.
- Phase TwoLive now
Ages 16–19
Career & College Readiness
Employability skills, career exposure, and college readiness support for all youth - not girls-only - bridging young people toward their next step after high school.
- Phase ThreeFuture vision
Up to age 24
Transitional Living
Supportive housing paired with continued mentorship for girls stepping into adulthood - with the future possibility of a location serving boys as well.
Our commitments
Four promises we keep, every single circle.
01
A judgment-free space
Girls arrive as they are — no performance required. What's shared in the circle stays in the circle.
02
Identity, then everything else
Before confidence, before leadership, there's the quiet work of knowing who you are and celebrating it.
03
Sisterhood as strategy
Girls grow faster when they grow together. We build friendships that hold, not cliques that harm.
04
Women who show up
Our mentors model confidence, compassion, and leadership — and stay long enough to be remembered.
Programming
Three pillars in service of the mission.
Programming is how we live the mission — not the headline. Each pillar exists to put SEL, readiness, and youth voice into the rooms where young people already are.
Pillar One
SEL & Resilience
Girls onlyB-Flii SEL
Our four-unit curriculum for girls 12–17. Sequenced, practiced, and reinforced in circle — not worksheets pretending to be growth.
- SELF
- CIRCLE
- CHARACTER
- FUTURE
Juvenile Justice & Alternative Schools
A deep commitment to at-risk girls who are too often written off. We bring SEL and consistent mentorship inside the walls where other programs don't go — currently active at Vel Phillips, running during the school year.
- Vel Phillips
- School year
- Consistent mentors
Afterschool Program
Ongoing community programming that gives girls a consistent, safe place to land after the school day — SEL, sisterhood, and structure.
- Ongoing
- Community sites
- Ages 12–17
Pillar Two
Career & College Readiness
All youth · Ages 16–19Earn & Learn Partnership
Workshops delivered in partnership with the City of Milwaukee's Earn & Learn summer program, covering employability skills and career exposure for youth ages 16–19.
- City of Milwaukee
- Summer
- Ages 16–19
Ready for the Real World
An employability workshop series for teens 16–19 — communication, teamwork, professionalism, and problem-solving through hands-on scenarios.
- Ages 16–19
- 3 hours
- Hands-on
Pillar Three
Advocacy & Voice
Girls only, including justice-involvedYouth-Led Advocacy & PSAs
Girls create and lead public advocacy projects — PSAs, community dialogues, and youth voice initiatives — turning lived experience into leadership.
- PSAs
- Community dialogues
- Youth-led
Raising Resilient Girls
For parents, guardians, and educators — practical strategies to nurture resilience, self-esteem, and emotional intelligence in the girls they're raising.
- Parents
- Caregivers
- Educators
Where we work
We go where young people already are.
- Group homes
- Alternative schools
- Juvenile detention centers
- Transitional living spaces
- Community sites
School-based partnerships are reserved for opportunity youth — we don't run general school programming. Milwaukee is our year-round home base; Dallas programming is concentrated in the summer months.
Get Involved
Three ways to help a girl become.
01
Become a Mentor
Adults who want to walk consistently with girls — modeling confidence, compassion, and leadership, and staying long enough to be remembered.
Apply to mentor02
Partner With Us
Schools, churches, and community organizations who want to bring Social Butterflii programming into the space where their girls already are.
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Give
Every dollar keeps a seat free. Sponsor a girl, fund a cohort, or make a one-time gift toward the mission and the future we're building.
Give todayBecome a Mentor. Our mentors are women who show up with confidence, compassion, and leadership - and stay long enough to be remembered.
Apply to mentora note to her —
You don't have to have it all figured out to belong here. You just have to come as you are.
— The Social Butterflii Circle