Who Can Help with Personal Progress?

The following people can help young women with Personal Progress:

• Parents or other family members
• Young Women presidency and advisers
• Priesthood leaders
• Other young women and class presidencies

With the revision of the Personal Progress program in 2002, Personal Progress specialists are generally thought to be unnecessary. For specific ideas on who can help with Personal Progress, see the interactive lessons Care for Each Girl, Get Help from Others, Modify Goals to Individual Needs.
           

How to Help

The following are some ways Young Women leaders can help young women with Personal Progress:

• Work as a Young Women presidency with each young woman individually in Personal Progress.
  
  
• Meet with each young woman who enters the Young Women program and her parents. At this meeting:
• Young Women leaders present the young woman with a copy of the Young Women Personal Progress booklet and with a Young Women Personal Progress Journal.
• Leaders observe and assess the parents' level of involvement in setting goals and helping their daughter.
• Leaders give a copy of the Guidebook for Parents and Leaders of Youth to parents and encourage them to read it, and the leaders explain that Personal Progress will help the young woman learn about Jesus Christ, strengthen her family, and prepare for her future.
• Parents, leaders, and the young woman discuss and identify the young woman's interests. Parents help identify what the young woman needs to learn.
• Leaders help identify the Value Experiences and Projects that will interest the young woman and meet her needs.
  
  
• Help and encourage young women so that they are always working on at least one Value Experience or Project.
  
  
• Recognize that the good things a young woman is doing at home, church, school, seminary, and in the community may fulfill the requirements of the Personal Progress program.

For more information about how leaders and parents can help young women with Personal Progress, view all of the related interactive lessons.