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MASK Matters and the MASKer Aide Annual Ball

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Imagine being a special guest at an elegant party with everything planned with the utmost care and attention to detail. You are surrounded by Arizona’s best and brightest business owners, executives and community leaders all decked out in their tuxes and formal gowns. The dinner is excuisite, entertainment extraordinary and the silent auction is cleary the best around. This is what you’ll experience at the MASKer Aide Ball – the annual premiere charity event co-hosted and sponsored by Fairmont Scottsdale Princess and Valley Toyota Dealers .

Listen in as Michelle Cardini, Co- Founder and Marketing Manager at MASK, Hayley Anderson, MASK Program Facilitator & ASU Management Intern, along with Shari Weller, Executive National Vice-President and Independent Arbonne International Consultant talk about their contributions to MASK programs (in partnership with ASU) benefiting Arizona school-aged kids and their families.

As MASK reaches this decade mark, you are invited to help continue to build the MASK legacy not just for families now but for mañana, as this year’s focus is to raise funds to translate our programming for the Spanish speaking community.

This Ball is second to none when it comes to sophistication and fundraising.

Tickets to the Espana MASKer Aide Ball $200 each can be purchased at www.maskmatters.org

MASK After Dark $20 each www.maskmatters.org
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ABOUT MASK

MASK (Mothers Awareness on School-age Kids) is a non-profit 501 (c) (3) organization created in 2007 by a group of dedicated mothers who recognized the need to consistently educate families on rapidly changing issues. The MASK Matters and its mission is to engage and educate parents, children and community about issues facing our youth and to empower children to make safe, healthy choices. MASK fulfills its mission by engaging, educating and empowering families through the MASK E3 Institute, MASK the Magazine and an informative website. Through theses platforms MASK aims to build healthy children, strengthen parent-child bonds and improve school climate. MASK tackles important topics – from drugs and alcohol, to bullying, Internet safety and all of the modern-day challenges families face – and give students, parents and the community knowledge and tools to manage them. We live in a fast-paced, time deprived world and it’s not easy to keep uo with the latest information and rends affecting children. MASK helps families navigate through the school-age years by providing information and solutions about various issues before them may even arise.

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Liv2BGirl

We’ve all heard the news stories about young people who have been victims of cyberbullying through social media. In some cases, kids have even gone so far as attempting or committing suicide over the experience. This week we sat down with Cindy Abel and Tosha Marks, co-founders of Liv2BGirl. It’s a social media environment they’re building as a mobile app that will give girls a social media environment exclusive to them. The site will be free from cyberbullying and negative, attacking/abusive behaviors—these being clearly prohibited when a user sets up their profile.

A recent article by Cindy and Tosha published on Momeomagazine.com states these statistics cited from dosomething.org:

Nearly 43% of kids have been bullied online

68% of teens agree that cyberbullying is a serious problem

81% of young people think bullying online is easier to get away with than bullying in person

90% of teens who have seen cyberbullying ignored it

Girls are twice as likely as boys to be victims of cyberbullying

Only 1 in 10 victims tell there parent or trusted adult of the abuse.

In this short clip, Tosha Marks shares why they are building the Liv2BGirl app:

The concept proved to have traction with girls when they launched their beta website to evaluate interest and content offerings, gaining roughly 700 users who tested the site. Cindy and Tosha quickly found that the idea of a social media space free from hurtful, hateful behaviors is appealing to girls—enough so that average time per visit was ~30 mins.

We talked about some of the troubling statistics around cyberbullying as well as negative experiences Cindy and Tosha saw their own daughters face in various social media platforms. We also discussed the resources they need to bring their app to full realization and how folks can get involved to get this source of positive peer pressure and encouragement for our daughters into their hands.

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