Make a Difference in Our Community: Become a Coach-Mentor for Girls on the Run
When you volunteer with Girls on the Run, you can make a difference in the lives of girls in our community. During this difficult year we all have faced, girls need you more than ever.
Ready to sign-up? Click here! https://www.girlsontherunsola.org/Coach
Social-emotional learning is the cornerstone of our research-based lessons, designed specifically for the challenges that 3rd-5th and 6th-8th grade girls face. With your help, we can support girls in:
- Standing up for themselves and others
- Being a standbyer instead of a bystander
- Practicing empathy, inclusion and acceptance
We recognize the important connection between body and mind. Our program centers around fun and accessible physical activity, ensuring we are strengthening physical and emotional health, as well as teaching resilience through a trauma-sensitive lens.
As a volunteer coach-mentor you will lead your team through fun and interactive lessons with 1-3 coach partners for 20 meetings between January-May or September-November.
You will gain access to all the resources you need to lead a small group of 3rd-5th or 6th-8th grade girls in developing important life skills and healthy habits during a thorough training course.
Our dedicated staff will provide everything you need to make a real difference in the lives of girls this fall.
Girls in our community are counting on you! Today, you can commit to standing up for girls who need YOU. Register now: https://www.girlsontherunsola.org/Coach or email [email protected] for more information.
Ready, Set, Coach!
Additional Details
- 18 and older
- Is Outdoors
Various Locations in
Greater Baton Rouge, Acadiana, and Northshore areas
LA 70808
Who We Are
At Girls on the Run we inspire girls to recognize their inner strength and celebrate what makes them one of a kind. Trained coaches lead small teams through our research-based curricula that include dynamic discussions, activities and running games. Over the course of the ten-week program, girls in 3rd-8th grade develop essential skills to help them navigate their worlds and establish a lifetime appreciation for health and fitness. The program culminates with girls positively impacting their communities through a service project and being physically and emotionally prepared to complete a celebratory 5k event
We believe that every girl is inherently full of power and potential. By knowing they are the leaders of their lives, these are the girls who will change the world.
What We Do
Meeting twice a week in small teams of 8-20 girls, we teach life skills through dynamic, conversation-based lessons and running games. The twenty lessons in the curriculum are taught by certified Girls on the Run volunteer coaches and includes three parts: understanding ourselves, valuing relationships and teamwork, and understanding how we connect with and shape the world at large. Running is used to inspire and motivate girls, encourage lifelong health and fitness, and build confidence through accomplishment. At each season's conclusion, the girls and their running buddies complete a 5k event. Completing a 5k gives the girls a tangible sense of achievement as well as a framework for setting and achieving life goals. The result—making the seemingly impossible, possible and teaching girls that they CAN.
Contact
[email protected]
Cate Willis
Program Coordinator
Location
2041 Perkins Road
Baton Rouge, LA 70808