Serving Genesee, Shiawassee, Ingham, and Eaton Counties we inspire girls to be joyful, healthy, and confident using a fun, experience based program that creatively integrates running. The curriculum is taught by certified Girls on the Run® coaches and includes three parts: understanding ourselves, valuing relationships and teamwork and understanding how we connect with and shape the world at large. Over the course of the program, girls will develop and improve competence, feel confidence in who they are, develop strength of character, respond to others and oneself with care, create positive connections with peers and adults, and make a meaningful contribution to community and society. Acknowledging that accomplishment has many flavors, each team creates and executes a local community service project. This experience demonstrates to girls the unimaginable strength that comes from helping others. At each season's conclusion, the girls and their running buddies complete a 5K event. In some cities this is a large, community wide event and in others, it's an inspiring gathering of friends and family. Completing a 5K gives the girls a tangible sense of achievement as well as a framework for setting and achieving life goals. The results are the same—making the seemingly impossible, possible.
