Spring 2025 Overview

Students for Wellness

In November 2024, we were awarded a mini-grant of $750 by the University of

Maryland’s Do Good Institute. This grant is used to provide campaign materials

to participants.

Our Goal

To empower middle school

students to lead community

health campaigns, increasing

participant health literacy and

improving community health

behaviors/attitudes.

Our Partner School

We are partnered with College

Park Academy, a public

charter school. Participants are

part of CPA Plus, a before and

after school enrichment

program. We have 15 participants, all students grades 6-8 in CPA Plus.

Program Structure

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Mentorship

UMD student-athletes
pursuing careers in the health
field mentor participants as
they work on campaign
materials.

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Health Literacy

We aim to increase participant
health literacy over the course of
the program. A baseline assessment
is distributed at the beginning of the
program, and the same assessment
is taken at the conclusion.

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Community Engagement

Campaigns address real health issues

identified by students as prevalent

community problems. Students

determine which mediums they would

like to use to distribute information

(posters, social media videos, etc.)

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Impact Measurement

Surveys and engagement

analytics assess campaign success in improving school community health behaviors and attitudes.

Thank you to our partner organizations:

Thank you to Maryland Made for covering our program in this article!

Read here