Last night we held an art therapy workshop for our community members. Dana of Paint on Purpose, led our community members through a cactus painting to symbolize growth and healing. We talked, listened, and painted about daily activities and memories. Although Dana gave out different colors, participants used their creativity to create beautiful paintings. Thank you Dana for the bonding experience you created and to our participants for showing up for our community.
We went to Walther Christian Academy in Maywood to give away one of our last batches of mental health kits. This was our first time at Walther and the students and staff were welcoming with gratitude. Maya and Jasmine did a couple mental health interviews as well. Today, we handed out 133 kits to Walther students and ended our day with a running total of 1,077 kits giveaway! We are so excited to hit our official goal of giving away 1,000 kits to local high school students. Thank you to everyone for the support, we could not have done this without you.
Last Saturday, we held our May community yoga session with Kathy Khang. We started out with setting our intention for the flow. Kathy also led us through a full body scan before stretching. Lastly, we held some space for correcting balance and posture towards the end. Thank you Kathy for another amazing session. Our next community yoga will be June 10th, 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM. All Proviso residents are welcomes for free.
Last week we visited Proviso West High School to give away another batch of mental health kits. It was out first time here and the students came with energy! We were able to give 243 kits away to Proviso West students. Our running total is now at 918 mental health kits given away to Proviso district youth. We are almost at our semester goal of 1,000.
As the staff helped give away kits, Maya interviewed some students about their mental health stories. In honor of mental health awareness month, we will be posting each day in May. Check out our Instagram for the full interviews!
For our last workshop for Adulting 101, we met with Mariel of Money for Mujeres. Mariel first led us through an introduction on investing. Specifically, what is investing and why is it different than saving. Our young adults learned the different types of investments; Stocks, Index Funds and Bonds. They learned which type would be best to start building wealth. They also learned the different types of IRA’s and which are best for your income and investing habits.
After Investing 101, the young adults opened up their accounts! We had two young adults successfuly open up their Roth IRA and started to invest. Thank you Mariel for teaching our young adults the importance of investing and helping them build their wealth!
