The Wellness Goal - 

Reach 22 kids to prevent 1 case of depression

Leverage - 

Ask each kid to reach 22 others

Impact - 

Like developing a fit body, exercises for a fit mind reaching 484 kids can prevent 22 cases of depression 

We need teen 'fitness' trainers.  Sign up at -

http://www.adolescentwellness.org/rotary/

The Wellesley Rotary Club (WRC) invites teens to bring their creative minds to help create a project that will inform our community about emotional health and wellness.

This year, the WRC chose emotional health and wellness as one of its areas of community education and service. To address this topic, the WRC is inviting teens to collaborate on creating a project that will bring awareness of this topic to the community. The WRC looks forward to this exciting collaboration, as emotional health and wellness are areas of interest for any age and the perspective that teens can offer adults is invaluable. We hope to enhance skills around how to promote conversations and how to teach both old and young in creative, fun ways.

How? The WRC is sponsoring a training conducted by mental health professionals from the Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology for both WRC members and for teens that may be interested in working with the WRC. The training focuses on:
(1) how to promote conversations about emotional health and wellness
(2) specific skills, such as problem solving and mindfulness techniques
(3) ways to help oneself and others
(4) guidance around defining a project for WRC and its teen collaborators 

You can help by encouraging a high school age teen to sign up for the wellness training.  More details are at the link and in this newsletter; either scroll down the newsletter below or the In This Issue  column on the left.

Best regards,