Budget
$130,000.00
Description
The 10 week season is conducted by 2-3 trained volunteer coaches that follow a research-based curriculum that has lessons focused on confidence, competence, caring, character, and contributions. 8-13 year old girls improve their social-emotional and physical wellness by the end of the season.
Program Successes
Physical success are those align with physical activity completion and a girl begin able to preform or engage at a higher or deeper level than before. Social emotional success are seen as girls that communicate and engage with other girls and their peers in and out of school.
Beneficiaries
Children
Women and girls
Economically disadvantaged people
Long-term Success
The program's intentional curriculum helps girls to navigate difficult emotions they may be experiencing by providing them with a safe and supportive social network where they can express these feelings. Girls on the Run helps girls make sense of trauma and express difficult emotions through teaching them how to recognize, name and express these emotions. In fact, girls who have participated in our program report that, because of Girls on the Run, they are able to manage emotions. Additionally, the program promotes the resiliency of adolescent girls by giving them the tools they need - such as coping skills, positive self-image, and positive self-talk - to navigate life's difficult situations.
Short-term Success
Girls on the Run's intentional life skills curriculum and coach training program offer strong explanations for findings of its program impact. Running, social-emotional learning, and life lessons are integrated and taught concurrently by caring and compassionate coaches who are trained to deliver the curriculum with fidelity. By the end of 20 lessons, girls will have developed their character, connection, caring, confidence, competence and contribution.
Program Success Monitored By
Program success is monitored using several tools. First we use a national database to collect student data and to gauge participation. Next we track attendance and social-emotional development via a tracking tool supported by coaches. Families also track their girl using two standards and coaches report behavioral and thinking differences using their coach data collection software.
Program Areas Served
Middle Tennessee

Budget
$100,000.00
Description
The Spring season for Girls on the Run of Middle Tennessee is a 10-week after-school program from February to May. This will be our first time expanding our programming to Wilson County. GOTR operates on community based coaches who serve as the implementers of the program. Together with council staff, we are able to hone in on skills, to engage girls who are wanting to grow and learn and to impact lives at the most critical ages in a girls life.

All programs are research-based and each supports the growing needs of girls as they develop and began to figure out their place and space in addition to their desires and dreams.



Program Successes
Another area that sets Girls on the Run apart from other programs is our intentional curriculum. The curriculum is based on current research in the field of elementary education, social-emotional learning, and positive-youth development. Over the course of 10-weeks, small team of approximately 15 girls meet twice a week. Each lesson, which is 75-90 minutes in length, focus on themes that girls can relate to such as making and being friends, recognizing and managing emotions, and working as a team. To show girls that they have the power and potential to make a difference in their community and on society, each team creates and executes a local community service project. This experience demonstrates to girls the unimaginable strength that comes from helping others. Running is used to inspire and motivate girls, encourage lifelong health and fitness, and build confidence through accomplishment. Important social, psychological, and physical skills and abilities are developed.
Category
Youth Development  - Youth Development, General/Other 
Beneficiaries
Children
Children and Youth (0 - 19 years)
Long-term Success
An incredible 97% of girls learned critical life skills including managing emotions, resolving conflict, helping others or making intentional decisions at Girls on the Run that they are using at home, at school and with their friends. In a focus group of parents, one parent shared how they have seen this come to life at home. The strongest differences emerged for girls reporting that, because of participating in GOTR, they are able to manage emotions , resolve conflict, help others and make intentional




Short-term Success
95% of girls showed improvements in the areas of confidence, competence, caring, character, connections, physical activity or showed a reduction in screen time (example is watching TV or playing video games). Girls who were the least active at the start of the season increased their physical activity level by 40% from pre- to post-season and maintained this increased level beyond season's end. Girls who began the program with below-average scores significantly improved from pre- to post-season on all outcomes. Girls who were more sedentary at the start of Girls on the Run reduced time spent watching TV and playing video and computer games by 20% from pre- to post-season.



Program Success Monitored By
Girls on the Run International just completed a longitudinal study in 2017. This third-party study was led by Positive Youth Development expert Dr. Maureen R. Weiss, and used a rigorous approach to evaluate the effectiveness of Girls on the Run on youth development. The study specifically looked at whether Girls on the Run participants differ from a comparison group of girls not in Girls on the Run on developmental outcomes, such as confidence, competence, caring, connection, character and contribution and life skills. The study also evaluated whether Girls on the Run participants showed improvements from the beginning to the end of the program on these on developmental outcomes and if they retained those improvements beyond the end of the program.


Program Areas Served
Middle TN