WELL-I-AM PROGRAM

Ms JODIE HARRISON (Charlestown)—Earlier this month, I had the pleasure of meeting with Laura Collison from Well Education. Her brain-child, the 'Well-I-AM program kicked off at The Place: Charlestown Community Centre on Saturday 6 February, was born out of her own wish that she had this available to her as a young woman. Laura is a former primary school teacher and is a local trailblazer in the area of emotional and physical wellbeing of young women, and the program intake consists of 15 at-risk young women between the ages of 13-16 and runs over 8 weeks. Well-I-AM is an early intervention program facilitated by Well Education that empowers young women with confidence, resilience, and positive self-worth. There are five core areas of wellbeing that are taught, including emotional awareness and understanding, confidence, resilience, self-worth, nutrition and physical activity. It was my pleasure to help support the program, and I am sure it will deliver the support and training necessary to help build lifelong positive habits for the young women who get involved. My thanks to Laura and the staff at the Place for organising and running this important program.

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