"High Rocks is a place of freedom and acceptance. At High Rocks no one cares if you are rich or poor. Money does not matter. We are a family, an ultimate support system, but above all we are sisters!" - High Rocks girl
High Rocks is an award-winning leadership program for young women ages 13-25. We offer exciting programs year-round.
High Rocks works with girls from all walks of life and accept girls from all different tables in the cafeteria. However, what they have in common is their heart and their deep desire to make the world a better place.
High Rocks is free. We work with the aim of making our communities stronger, richer, more vibrant places to work and live for all of us over the long run.
The dream of High Rocks is that one day it will become self-sustaining. High Rocks girls will grow up to become staff and board to run High Rocks for the next generation. This dream is becoming a reality. We have a number of alums on our board and several have worked as staff members.
Abbie Betinis wrote the music to these words from Victor Hugo and gave us permission to use it. You can order sheet music through her website: AbbieBetinis.com She says "A round is very personal--you have to 'hold your own' while others are continuously singing at a different place in the song--and yet it works best when everyone IS singing together, so the personal expands to enrich a larger community! It's a kind of microcosm of what determination can do, what cooperation can do. I like to believe it's what peace might look like."
Be like the bird that, pausing
in her flight awhile on boughs too slight,
feels them give way beneath her --
and sings --
knowing she hath wings.
