Our Programs
Run4Fun promotes positive youth development and mental health through running and socio-emotional learning. Our socio-emotional curriculum couples life skills while developing an active and healthy life-style through running. We partner with community based organizations, schools, and communities to bring our program to young people in-school, after-school and in the summer in New York City and Greece. We focus on running and play in a non-competitive, accepting environment, with socio-emotional themes built into the curriculum to promote overall well-being. Young people will build positive social relationships through team-building, develop self-esteem, communication skills, and resilience. Run4Fun sessions are designed for each age group and include dynamic warm ups, age-appropriate distance runs, running games, nutritional activities, tag games, relays, destination runs, and a cool down. Run4Fun is youth centered and youth led, creating opportunities for our youth to guide and lead elements of the session, and take part in our mentoring and leadership program. Run4Fun scaffolds the sessions for young people as they transition from elementary school to middle school, middle school to high school, and high school to college, fostering goal setting, interpersonal skills, and perseverance, preparing young people for success.
After-School
We partner with schools and CBO’s to bring our program to young people during after-school hours.Through our uniquely designed trauma-informed, socio-emotional curriculum we empower young people’s mental health and wellness through running and play.
During School
We deliver our trauma-informed, socio-emotional curriculum during the school day, partnering with schools and CBO’s. We serve young people in grades K-12th grade, including coed, girls identifying groups, and children with diverse abilities partnering and collaborating together with school staff including principals, teachers, and social workers to best serve our young people.
Girls’ Identifying
Curriculum-Program
We deliver our uniquely designed trauma-informed, socio-emotional Girls’ Identifying Curriculum throughout NYC after-school and during school, increasing young people’s self-esteem, holistic wellness, leadership skills, mental health, and socio-emotional learning through running, running games and challenges.
Train the trainer
We partner with organizations including PowerPlayNYC and schools to ‘train the trainer’. We train coaches, teachers, and social workers to deliver our Girls’ and Coed Curriculum.
Greece: Poros, Kefalonia, Greece Summer Program
Our summer event in Poros, Kefalonia, our Founder’s second home, is an exciting day full of running games, relays on the village center and beach with young people from the village together with children visiting from the UK, Italy, USA and more.
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