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Community Resource Center

Maela Taylor

EAST LIVERPOOL — The Community Resource Center added a mental wellness activity to the Summer Feed Program, by offering a series of arts expression lessons monthly to help the children gain a better self image, improve healthy eating habits, deal with emotions like anger and sadness, and fortify them with pride and skills to help them deal with the negatives of life, thus inspiring their hope for the future.

Group leaders were given training to conduct these sessions in a fun, welcoming manner. The project was a T-shirt designed by the child to personalize and inspire their hope, self-esteem and positive body image, with the theme “I can be a super hero.” Each child received personal and positive reinforcement and recognition for their creation, with emphasis on healthy mental health, “Your Life Counts”.

The winner and designer was Maela Taylor, 15. She is an 8th grader at East Liverpool Junior High School and worked for the Center for a summer program where she participated in the Touch of Hope, program drawing and painting, sponsored by the Margaret Clark Foundation. In creating the T-shirt emblem, she thought of the design using the words that she found encouraging helping self esteem.

These 12 weeks healing, meditative classes were held at the Center with an emphasis on trust and a positive self-image.

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