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Girls Just Wanna Have Fun: A Process Evaluation of a Driven Physical Activity-based life Skills Program 

By C. N. Bean et al., published in 2014 in SpringerPlus.

Integrating a positive youth development framework into physical activity programming has become popular as it is believed that this integration can create the development of both physical and psychosocial skills. However, there has been a lack of intervention fidelity research within the field of positive youth development. The Girls Just Wanna Have Fun program was designed in response to increased calls for physical activity programs for female youth and is a theoretically-grounded physical activity-based life skills program that aims to empower female youth. The purpose of this paper was to provide a detailed description of the program and a process evaluation of the first year of program implementation. From interviews with youth and leaders, as well as documentation from the leaders’ weekly online log of each implemented session, themes emerged regarding the successes.

Girls Just Wanna Have Fun: A Process Evaluation of a Driven Physical Activity-based life Skills Program 

By C. N. Bean et al., published in 2014 in SpringerPlus.

Integrating a positive youth development framework into physical activity programming has become popular as it is believed that this integration can create the development of both physical and psychosocial skills. However, there has been a lack of intervention fidelity research within the field of positive youth development.The Girls Just Wanna Have Fun program was designed in response to increased calls for physical activity programs for female youth and is a theoretically-grounded physical activity-based life skills program that aims to empower female youth. The purpose of this paper was to provide a detailed description of the program and a process evaluation of the first year of program implementation. From interviews with youth and leaders, as well as documentation from the leaders’ weekly online log of each implemented session, themes emerged regarding the successes.

Girls Just Wanna Have Fun: A Process Evaluation of a Driven Physical Activity-based life Skills Program

August 12, 2025 • YouthREX

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