Our goal at Girls on the Run is to teach girls how to:

  • Evaluate the effects and consequences of making right and wrong choices
  • Respect themselves and others and be self-confident
  • Manage their emotions and maintain positive attitudes
  • Listen, cooperate and work as a team
  • Avoid drugs, alcohol and other high-risk behaviors
  • Eat nutritiously
  • Contribute and give back to the community
  • Develop open relationships with their parents or guardians about difficult issues
  • Set a goal, prepare for it, and complete it (in this instance, a 5K race)
  • Love exercise!!