Teen girls are facing a mental health crisis

with no safe space to land.

Your gift brings trauma‑informed mentors, music, and community into her week — exactly when she needs it most.

Impact of Your Gift

Your $47 gives a student a seat in the weekly Writers Guild circle, where she shares lyrics about her anxiety, 12 other girls snap in recognition, and she realizes she's not alone.

Your $47 monthly donation creates the whole circle — where 12 students experience transformative, restorative music community, together.

A woman with multicolored hair (black and red) wearing glasses and a lavender t-shirt, singing into a microphone while holding a smartphone in her right hand. She is standing indoors near metallic decorations and a potted plant.
A group of children in a classroom, singing and holding musical instruments including a violin and guitar, with some smiling and laughing.
Three women smiling and posing together inside a room, with one woman standing and two women sitting on chairs. The woman on the right is wearing a black face mask, a light blue shirt, and black pants. The woman in the middle is wearing a colorful striped top and white pants, and the woman on the left is dressed in a tie-dye shirt and light pants.

Too many teen girls carry anxiety, trauma, and silence into their school day. Arts programs are underfunded. Teen girls are still facing a mental health epidemic. Music education often centers Western norms and is inaccessible to the students who need expression the most. And without a space to be heard, young artists shut down.

When students don’t have access to creative outlets or trauma-informed mentors, they lose more than just music. They lose a place to process emotions, connect with others, and find their voice. Without safe space, the harm continues — silently.

Girls Write Nashville partners with schools to create expressive, inclusive music programs led by trained, trauma-informed teaching artists. Each session offers snacks, instruments, mentorship, and real tools for songwriting and production — no auditions, no wrong notes, just support.

As a result of our work, a quiet student shares lyrics about her anxiety — and 12 girls snap in recognition. A teen performs her first original song with a guitar she learned to play, and she gains a daily music practice she can turn to in difficult moments. A trauma-informed teaching artist creates space that helps, not harms, for too many of our girls with an all too common background of chronic and traumatic stress.

96% of Girls Write Nashville students say that we deliver all four community-based Positive Childhood Experiences shown by the CDC to reduce the longterm negative health impacts of childhood trauma.

86% of students said Girls Write Nashville positively impacted their mental health during a difficult year and left their first year of our programs with the skills they need to write a song on their own.

100% of Girls Write Nashville students say their program is a place where they feel accepted.

Together we can offer restorative, transformative creative community to more students than ever before. Your gift creates music, mentorship, and safety — all in one room.

Our voices are essential

A young woman with curly hair, sitting on a chair, playing an acoustic guitar and singing into a microphone in a dimly lit indoor setting, possibly a cafe or small venue.
Two young women sitting at a table smiling and talking in a busy café or restaurant.

Make a donation.

Your gift gives a teen girl more than just music — it gives her space to breathe, belong, and be heard. In a world that often silences her, you can open the door to expression, healing, and community.

Your $47 gives a student a seat in the weekly Writers Guild circle, where she shares lyrics about her anxiety, 12 other girls snap in recognition, and she realizes she's not alone.

One safe space can change everything. Donate now.