Girls On The Run - Somerset County

To educate and prepare girls for a life time of self-respect and healthy living.

The Girls on the Run objective is to reduce the potential display of at-risk activities among its participants. The goal is fewer adolescent pregnancies and eating disorders, less depression and suicide attempts, as well as fewer substance/alcohol abuse problems and confrontations with the juvenile justice system.

Life-changing, experiential learning programs for girls age eight to thirteen years old. The programs combine training for a 3.1 mile running event with self-esteem enhancing, uplifting workouts. The goals of the programs are to encourage positive emotional, social, mental, spiritual and physical development.

Description:
Vision:

To support a network of Girls on the Run sites across the country

To provide quality and life-changing programming for girls and women, and to provide quality and life-changing experiences to the women involved in the delivery and development of the program as well

To support an intensive, nationwide, media campaign that will provide positive, healthy images of girls and women

To promote an environment that allows girls and women to reach their full potential
To constantly strive to improve itself by staying open-minded, trusting and flexible, even in the business world

To enhance the lives of all involved in the program

To influence literally hundreds of thousands of girls and women in the next 30 years by establishing Girls on the Run sites around the country and the world

To be a foremost expert on ways to raise and support a healthy girl in these ever-changing times

To assist in nothing less than a complete transformation in the way girls and women perceive themselves and their place in society.

History:
Molly Barker, a four-time Hawaii Ironman Triathlete, established Girls on the Run in August of 1996 to celebrate the gifts of girlhood and to address what she calls Girl-Box issues. The product of Molly's experience, Girls on the Run is one way to provide pre-adolescent girls with enabling tools to embrace their girlhood gifts as they enter middle and high school, and then on into adulthood.

Contact person: Donna Mallory, Program Manager, (email)

Address:

915 Valley Road Gillette, NJ 07933 (See a map)

Web Site: http://www.girlsontherun.org/

Last updated on January 20, 2009