Check out the alarming findings from the CDC's 2023 Youth Risk Behavior Survey in North Dakota, which highlight a troubling mental health crisis among teen girls. With increasing rates of bullying, cyberbullying, sexual pressure, and mental health struggles, it's clear that many girls are suffering. BIO Girls and BIO Teens offer hope through programs that boost self-esteem, body acceptance, and reduce anxiety.

Elyana didn’t even want to attend the first session of BIO Girls, clinging to her mother at the door. 12-weeks later, the changes are powerful. Read on to see her transformation.

Helping young girls and now teens to boost their self-esteem. See the full video about BIO Girls newest program - BIO Teens

Run, walk or jog to support mental wellness in adolescent girls across our region!

CHI St. Alexius Health Dickinson has awarded BIO Girls a grant, supporting program locations in Western North Dakota!

BIO Girls is opening 2024 program registration for girls from second to sixth grades. Teaching girls to believe in themselves, for all the right reasons.

In today’s world, our adolescent girls feel constant pressure to be perfect, to not mess up & to get it right, every single time.  BIO Girls is preparing girls to fail. Support a healthy foundation for a girl in your community this Giving Hearts Day.

BIO Girls is excited to pilot a new program - BIO Girls Art! Coming to Fargo in February, giving girls the opportunity to participants despite any physical challenges they may face.

The Bismarck Marathon presented by MDU Resources made donations to 28 different local organizations and charities, including BIO Girls!

BIO Girls of Jackson/Lakefield assembled plastic lumber chairs for Jackson County Schools. The project was sponsored by Bedford; the employer of BIO Girls volunteer, Kristy Thurmer, who works as a Sr. Mechanical Engineer.

BIO Girls to team with Essentia Health to host the annual Find Your Kind 5K and Youth Run in May.

The Matto Foundation has partnered with Dakota Medical Foundation in launching a new video series, “Building Resilient Kids.”

GRAND FORKS — As girls across the Midwest battle anxiety, low self-esteem and other mental health challenges, an area program determined to change this has been growing over the last decade.

BIO Girls Founder and Executive Director, Missy Heilman was featured on Checkable Health Podcast Episode 34: "Improving the Self-Esteem of Adolescent Girls Through Empowering of Self.”.

Thank you to FM Area Foundation for choosing BIO Girls as a feature nonprofit in the 2022 Caring Catalog! Read about our project and how you can support BIO Girls.

5 Questions with Missy Heilman, Founder & Executive Director, and Macy Kramer, Director of Marketing of BIO Girls.

BIO Girls TEEN! A long time coming, we are fully launching our teen program in 2023. See what the Teen Program entails, and how you can support this program expansion.

WADENA — A group of about 30 young girls raced through the streets of Wadena on Wednesday, July 20, with the confidence that they could finish what they started.

Devils Lake helped bring 40 girls together for their inaugural season in the community.

“The best part of BIO Girls) is seeing the growth in the girls," Moch said. "From them walking so timidly into the first session and they’re nervous and that kind of mentality. Now, when they come, they come running in and they’re smiling from ear-to-ear, and the other girls are cheering each other on.”

Both Moch and Hanson feel like BIO Girls is a little too good to be true sometimes. Hanson said to cheer these girls on, support them and ask them about the lessons they learned about in BIO Girls.