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Causes: Children & Youth, Girls Clubs
Mission: Girls on the run napa & solano is a healthy empowerment for young girls. Girls are inspired to be healthy, confident, joyful and caring before and during middle school, and ultimately lifelong. Girls are provided tools to choose movement over being sedentary, healthy friendships over destructive relationships, joy over sorrow, empathy over fear and positive self-talk over negative self talk. A graduate is better equipped to deal with life and avoid the societal trends towards obesity, violence and depression.
Programs: Empower 1085 participants or 1006 girls (unduplicated) with 75% low income and 74% diverse ethnicities in napa and solano counties. 90% of girls achieved success by completing the 10 week life skill curriculum & empowerment program, a noncompetitive 5k and community impact project. A total of 61 schools were served in solano & napa. There were 31 schools in napa and 31 schools in solano.