Girls on the Run Greater Tampa Bay

Description

Girls on the Run uses running and other physical activities as a platform for teaching life skills and promoting positive social, emotional, and holistic health outcomes for girls in grades 3-8. The curriculum includes lessons developmentally appropriate for 8- to 13-year-old girls. Before the season, volunteer coaches participate in a National Coach Training Program. This training prepares them to build relationships with girls, create a positive, inclusive supportive environment (including how to provide an inclusive experience for girls with disabilities), support individual improvement, create trauma-sensitive spaces, and deliver the intentional curriculum as intended. The program’s 10-week curriculum includes lessons that specifically target girls’ improvements in social-emotional learning. Through the program, girls learn critical life skills and behaviors such as how to manage emotions, help others, make intentional decisions, and resolve conflict that they can use at home, at school, and with friends long after the program’s conclusion. Social-emotional learning have been shown to provide short- and long-term benefits to children such as positive social behavior, less emotional stress, fewer behavioral problems, and academic success.