Registration opens on Monday, August 7, for Girls on the Run New Hampshire’s 2023 fall season. Dartmouth Health has partnered with Girls on the Run in support of their mission to not only inspire girls to take up running, but to be healthy, strong and confident.
With chapters around the state, Girls on the Run inspires girls of all abilities to recognize their individual strengths, while building a sense of connection in a team setting. Volunteer coaches facilitate lessons that blend physical activity with life skill development to enable girls to adapt to whatever comes their way. At the end of the season, on November 18, the team completes a 5K in Concord, along with other teams from around New Hampshire, providing a tangible sense of accomplishment and setting a confident mindset into motion.
“As the name implies, running is a part of the Girls on the Run program, but our primary focus is empowerment,” said Jen Hubbell, executive director of Girls on the Run New Hampshire. “Girls are taught how to integrate physical activity into their daily lives in a fun, empowering, and social environment, while also building the courage to unleash their inner star power. The joy and learning that evolves as the girls share ideas and learn new skills makes each and every participant that much more confident and caring. To have Dartmouth Health step up as our Premier Partner is a tremendous milestone. It will further our council's ability to serve even more girls across all 10 New Hampshire counties, having served over 20,000 participants since 2001.”
A national nonprofit organization, Girls on the Run’s researched-based curriculum is structured around understanding ourselves, valuing relationships and teamwork, and recognizing how we can shape the world at large. Participants gain critical life skills that strengthen their potential at a time when societal pressures and conflicting messages about how to feel and act can cause doubt and uncertainty.
Registration for the Girls on the Run fall season is open from August 7 to September 17. To register and for more information, visit the Girls on the Run New Hampshire website.
About Dartmouth Health
Dartmouth Health, New Hampshire’s only academic health system and largest private employer, serves patients across New England. Dartmouth Health provides access to more than 2,300 providers in nearly every area of medicine, delivering care at its flagship hospital, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center (DHMC) in Lebanon, NH. Its network of hospitals, outpatient centers, clinics and home care facilities, spans a broad geographical area. Year after year, DHMC is named the #1 hospital in New Hampshire by U.S. News & World Report, and is consistently recognized for high performance in numerous clinical specialties and procedures. Dartmouth Health includes Dartmouth Cancer Center, northern New England’s only National Cancer Institute-designated Comprehensive Cancer Centers and one of less than than 60 total nationally; Dartmouth Health Children’s, which includes the state’s only children’s hospital (Children’s Hospital at DHMC/CHaD) and more than 20 locations around the region; eight member hospitals in Lebanon, Keene, Claremont, Hampstead, and New London, NH, and Windsor and Bennington, VT; Dartmouth Health Home Care; Dartmouth Health Connected Care Center for Telehealth, serving patients as far away as Texas; and more than 30 primary and multi-specialty clinics across New Hampshire and Vermont. Through its partnership with Dartmouth College, Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine and the White River Junction VA Medical Center, Dartmouth Health trains nearly 400 medical residents and fellows annually and performs cutting-edge research and clinical trials with international impact. Dartmouth Health and its more than 16,000 employees are committed to serving the healthcare needs of everyone in the communities it serves and to providing every patient with exceptional, state-of-the-art, personalized care. Learn more at dartmouth-health.org.