PMSA Mental Health Club | Somatic Movement

The team visited PMSA’s mental health club last week with Dahlia of Liberated Learning to lead a somatics movement with the students! The students were able to learn how to be in tune with their bodies and feel better with breathing and movement. Dahlia lead the students through multiple poses and helped the students learn what their bodies need for a mood boost. Thank you Dahlia for partnering with TFD and PMSA’s Mental Health Club!

We are so grateful for the participants who keep showing up for mental health club.

PMSA Mental Health Club | Grief and Memory Jars

TFD is back at the PMSA Mental Health Club with the HAP Foundation to lead a two-part workshop on grief. The students first learned what grief means and the cycle of grief. Grief is not a linear process and often is more like a cycle that can experience moving in different directions. We think students should understand that grief can be unique to the person. The session ended with some impactful conversations with some important questions from the students

In the second workshop, the students created memory jars. On the outside, the jar is decorated in remembrance of the individual important to the student. On the inside are little notes of memories the student has with the individual. This way, they can open the jar and be reminded of their loved one!

Thank you to the HAP Foundation for the workshop and the creative jars!

PMSA Mental Health Kit Giveaway

This week, we visited PMSA to hand out more mental health kits. TFD wanted to bring a bright start to the new school year and honor National Suicide Prevention Month this September. The Proviso community has suffered from multiple youth losses due to suicide. Moreover, these kits were inspired to create healthy coping skills for young adults with the intention of promoting mental well-being.

This month is very important for us and the Mental Health Kits. We are so glad to provide 226 kits to PMSA students this Wednesday! Our running total is 2,183 kits given away. Thanks to everyone who stopped by!

PMSA Mental Health Kit Giveaway

Last Thursday, we continued to celebrate Mental Health Awareness Month by hosting a mental health kit giveaway at PMSA. This season, we downgraded to smaller kits but with all the same contents! The kits still contain multiple fidgets, smaller journals, journal prompts, digital mental health resource cards, feelings wheel, and pens. This time, we gave away 150+ kits away at PMSA. We were so excited to see the students still passionate about our kits and mental health. As we gave away kits, we did some interviews with students about what mental health means to them. Look out on our Instagram for the full videos.

Team Building at PMSA's Mental Health Club

This week, we were back at PMSA again! We have been loving the relationships we built with PMSA’s mental health club. The students are supportive and receptive to the workshops we bring. For this week, Clarybelle of A Beautiful Project led the students through team-building exercises. First, the students started with a check-in and to meet Clarybelle. Then they started playing puzzling games that required teamwork to accomplish. They walked around the classrooms timing their steps to work with others and played hand games with one another. One of the final activities was to write negative or intrusive thoughts the students had about themselves. They would build up a tower with these cups and knock it down after. They finished with some positive thoughts about themselves and one another.

Thank you Clarybelle for leading such an engaging workshop! We will be back at PMSA for a storytelling workshop led by Jasmine, on February 21st. See you soon!