Girls on the Run New Orleans inspires girls to be joyful, healthy and confident using a fun, experience-based curriculum which creatively integrates running. Girls on the Run is the only national PA-PYD (physical activity-based positive youth development) program with external evidence of impact in girls. Girls on the Run teaches girls (3rd-8th grade) critical life skills needed for life success, through an experience-based curriculum which creatively integrates physical activity - thus combining social emotional learning, mental well-being, and physical activity. In a typical year we program with over 400 girls throughout 30-40 sites/schools in our New Orleans community. Our program cultivates the positive benefits of physical activity and movement while, at the same time, addressing harmful habits like negative self-talk and poor self-esteem that are prevalent among adolescent girls and detrimental to their mental health. We do all of this to combat the current phenomena that only 21% of girls believe they have the skills to be successful leaders; girls' physical activity levels start to decline at age 10; and their self-confidence begins to drop by age 9. Girls on the Run NOLA