Hey everybody!
Last year, me and my best friend Amanda participated in a program called Girls Coach Girls Run, also known as GCGR. It is a great 18 week program for younger girls to learn and create bonds with older girls.
What happens is some juniors in high school who participate in this program meet every Thursday night for two hours with the program directors. With the participants, the directors go through various topics that girls and women alike face everyday, which includes dieting, exercise, body image, self-esteem, friends, boys, and assertiveness. Healthy ways to go about each topic are discussed and brought to the table as well as various solutions to sticky situations.
Next, the juniors get into groups and teach the same program, though slightly modified for the younger girls, to eighth grade girls. This occurs for another six weeks, for two hours every Thursday. When this part of the program is completed, the girls have made bonds and friendships and learned a tn about themselves!
The girls split into a few groups which include about four juniors and fur or so eighth graders. Each group is assigned an elementary school in which they meet twice a week for two hours twice a week right after school. During this six weeks, the juniors and the eighth graders work together to teach the, more kid friendly, program to a larger group of fourth graders. Each day, after a piece of the program is taught to the younger girls, all the girls go for a run. (This usually took place outside unless the weather forbid this.)
At the end of the 18 week program that gives participants 50 hours of community service, a 5k race and picnic is held and awards are given. This is a great program that teaches young girls about self-image, exercise, health, and forms many bonds and friendships.
Last year, me and my best friend Amanda participated in a program called Girls Coach Girls Run, also known as GCGR. It is a great 18 week program for younger girls to learn and create bonds with older girls.
What happens is some juniors in high school who participate in this program meet every Thursday night for two hours with the program directors. With the participants, the directors go through various topics that girls and women alike face everyday, which includes dieting, exercise, body image, self-esteem, friends, boys, and assertiveness. Healthy ways to go about each topic are discussed and brought to the table as well as various solutions to sticky situations.
Next, the juniors get into groups and teach the same program, though slightly modified for the younger girls, to eighth grade girls. This occurs for another six weeks, for two hours every Thursday. When this part of the program is completed, the girls have made bonds and friendships and learned a tn about themselves!
The girls split into a few groups which include about four juniors and fur or so eighth graders. Each group is assigned an elementary school in which they meet twice a week for two hours twice a week right after school. During this six weeks, the juniors and the eighth graders work together to teach the, more kid friendly, program to a larger group of fourth graders. Each day, after a piece of the program is taught to the younger girls, all the girls go for a run. (This usually took place outside unless the weather forbid this.)
At the end of the 18 week program that gives participants 50 hours of community service, a 5k race and picnic is held and awards are given. This is a great program that teaches young girls about self-image, exercise, health, and forms many bonds and friendships.
This is all of us girls stretching before the big 5k! The circle around the older girls in the middle, which is made up of all the eighth graders and fourth graders, is too large to fit into the picture. And, there are tons of families all around watching and taking pictures! The pictures don't do a good job capturing the excitement, the love, and the music!
These are all the juniors that participated! I'm in there somewhere! The two directors are kneeling in the front of the group. Love and miss these girls!
GIRLS COACH GIRLS RUN <3
