This afternoon we checked in with Miss Senyah and Miss Terica from the Gary Comer Youth Center. We discussed what we have been doing for the past two weeks, and shared ideas for how our projects could progress forward. Miss Senyah and Miss Terica are especially excited about our interest in reducing stress in the teenage population. We talked about how Gary Comer College Prep might be a good place to study stress in teens. Both Iysha and Bennie speak highly of their school, but it is clear that it can be a stressful place. New freshmen can have a hard time adjusting to GCCP's high expectations for behavior and academics. Freshman year, therefore, can be really challenging for some students. The teens also talked about the looming stress that comes with junior year--the stress of college admissions and the ACT can be overwhelming.
We talked about some ways to measure whether stress reduction is working. They suggested that we could possibly track conduct reports, number of students in detention, or number of violent incidents at school.
Ideally, the center would like us to plan one big event as well as ongoing programming. We are still coming up with ideas for what these programs might look like.
We are also still interested in pursuing nutrition programming, but we focused on the topic of stress in today's meeting.
If you decide to do a stress-reduction fair, or something like that, please don't hesitate to call on your friends, Team Woodlawn, if there is anything we can do to be of assistance. Good luck!
ReplyDeleteIt can be very stressful adjusting to a knew school especially for the freshmen. My school is also what people call strict but i just say it's just a case of discipline. Also maybe you could help our school start something with reducing stress because I need some too.
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