About the Project

Our grant seeks to support all students in recovering from the challenges of Covid and to provide an ongoing foundation for coping with academic and mental health challenges. We also wish to take those students who desire to lead others on a path toward advocacy. We will use our MTSS framework of Be a Saint to help students realize success in the areas of respect, achievement, and a can-do attitude. Our goal is that students will learn about their mental health, how to cope with stress and anxiety, how to be successful students, and how to achieve their goals. In addition, we want to help students find their voice and advocate for themselves and others. We desire to guide them toward leadership so that they can be the drivers of school culture, successes, and changes that need to occur. We will achieve these goals by creating school-wide lessons with students on dealing with stress, academic success, healthy relationships, and other topics. We will also reward students for achieving goals and taking leadership roles. Finally, we will purchase supplies to help students learn how to cope with their mental health and to support leadership groups such as Student Equity Council, BSU, No Food Goes to Waste, and others, with advocacy and operations. In sum, through this program, students will be empowered to take hold of their mental health, academic success, and advocacy so that they can be healthy, happy, and positively contribute to the school and wider community.