For the past few months we have been working in psychology to plan an event that would take place sometime during Mental Health Month in May. My team and I chose to focus on the demographic of middle schoolers and decided we wanted to plan an event regarding stress and anxiety and coping with that transitioning into high school. It was a strenuous process organizing the event entirely on our own since we needed to coordinate with leaders at River Middle School, find a licensed therapist to talk about stress & anxiety and coping mechanisms, and prep 3 high school students from different grades in our high school to take part in a panel. It took a lot of work trying to find a therapist to come in and help us with our project since everyone happened to be busy or didn’t respond to our emails. However, after reaching out to Jeni Olsen from Teens Connect in Napa, she was able to help us find a teen therapist who assisted us with our event. There was a lot of going back and forth with the teacher at River who was coordinating the event at River’s library but thankfully we got it all set up and it worked out! It was definitely a learning experience dealing with 120 8th graders ALL at the same time and trying to keep them quiet but I think that they all gained something out of it and it turned out alright.
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AuthorHibah Shafi is a Senior at New Technology High School. Archives
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