What is GOTR?

Girls on the Run® is a life-changing after-school program for girls in 3rd - 8th grades. Every lesson covers a relevant topic in the lives of young girls today (i.e. gossiping, bullying, filtering media messages/images).  Facilitated by trained coaches, the lessons encourage girls to share and discuss the topic within their peer group which results in positive individual and social development.  The lessons also include fun and uplifting workouts which help the girls train for the season ending 5k fun run/walk.

 

 

 

The Girls on the Run objective is to reduce the potential display of at-risk activities among its participants. 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 are all desired outcomes of the program.

Girls on the Run is the name of our parent organization, but we have two programs:
 

The Girls on the Run curriculum has been in use since the fall of 1996. Since that time thousands of girls have been through the program-but what we soon discovered is, they were having so much fun and getting so connected, they wanted something that would carry them through middle school. We originally wanted to call it Girls on the Run for Middle Schoolers. The girls who were participating told us they wanted something they could call their own. Hence the birth of Girls on Track.

The principal philosophies and psychological research for both programs are the same yet the depth of processing the topics varies with the two different curricula. We go into more targeted and age-appropriate discussion regarding certain topics (eating disorders, tobacco and alcohol use, personal/internet safety and harassment to name a few) with the middle school participants.