About the Project

We would like to provide all our middle school, 6th-8th grade students, enrolled in SEL classes with a “Be Your Own Best Friend” journal, art supplies, and vision board materials. Students will receive instruction, materials, and a unique platform where they will have an opportunity to explore and express their emotions, thoughts, and experiences. Students will engage in various forms of artistic expression, verbal and non-verbal, such as different forms of drawing, painting, creating collages, sculpting, writing, and performance. The artistic expression provided will offer our students a safe and creative outlet to process and communicate their inner world, making it an invaluable tool for enhancing social emotional learning. Students will now have an engaging platform that will support the SEL goals of emotional awareness and regulation, enhancing self-awareness, self-acceptance, self-confidence and promoting empathy and perspective-taking. Our students will have, as a result of this project, highly improved social-emotional skills and health.