teen wellness fellowship
Overview
Focused on peer engagement through a mental health and wellness lens, BaMidbar’s Teen Wellness Fellowship engages teens to work to remove the stigmas surrounding mental health and wellness, educating themselves and their peers through group learning and programmatic opportunities.
Fellows engage in monthly training seminars and mentoring check-ins and receive high-level training in:
- Mental Health Awareness
- Advocacy
- Wellness Through a Jewish Lens
- Leadership Development
Fellows design and implement community service projects related to mental health awareness and stigma reduction. Throughout the program, Fellows explore the connections between their Jewish identity, understanding of mental health, and sense of personal resilience.
The Wellness Fellowship was developed in partnership with the Jewish Teen Initiative at Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston.
BaMidbar currently offers Teen Wellness Fellowship cohorts for 10th-12th graders in Massachusetts.
HEAR FROM THE TEEENS
“I became a Peer Wellness Fellow because I want to break the stigma around mental health and help normalize talking about it. I want to be able to provide teens with information and resources surrounding health and wellness.” – 2021 Boston Teen Wellness Fellow