Girls on the Run Hudson Valley

We inspire girls to be joyful, healthy, and confident using a fun, experience-based curriculum which creatively integrates running

Girls on the Run Hudson Valley inspires girls to be joyful, healthy, and confident using fun, experience-based curricula that creatively integrates running. As the only national physical activity-based, positive youth development (PA-PYD) program for girls with a research-based curriculum, trained coaches, and a commitment to serving all girls, Girls on the Run is also one of the only after-school physical activity–based positive youth development programs with rigorous designs, methods, and longitudinal evidence of impact. Girls on the Run underscores the important connection between physical and emotional health and empowers adolescent girls to build healthy physical and mental habits that last a lifetime.

Trained, caring, and qualified coaches deliver the life skills curriculum by guiding small teams of girls through twice-a-week lessons that promote social-emotional learning concurrently with physical activity. The program culminates with girls positively impacting their communities through a service project and completing a celebratory, non-competitive 5K event, providing the framework for confidence through accomplishment and to be the author of her story.

Since 2012, Girls on the Run Hudson Valley has positively impacted the lives of 19,000+ girls in Dutchess, Orange, Putnam, Rockland, Ulster and Westchester counties.