About Girls Circle Girls Circle is a non profit organization and a Project of the Tides Center. We are based in Northern California. Founded in 1996, Girls Circle Association provides comprehensive training and materials, and is a research based model that is rated a "promising approach" with Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. Girls Circle Roots As mothers with a passionate vision to foster healthy relationships and choices within their daughters and other girls in the mid-1990's, founders Giovanna Taormina and Beth Hossfeld created the first Girls Circle groups. In 1997, recognizing the impact of the Girls Circle, and responding to the needs in their communities and beyond, Taormina and Hossfeld developed the Girls Circle Facilitator Training. Girls Circle authored several Facilitator Activity Guides upon which gender relevant themes and activities were created. This program has been taught to over 1, 600 organizations nationally, including non-profit agencies, government, state supported programs, institutions, and systems that work with adolescent girls. See Participating Organizations.