ACTIVITY BOOK

In 2022, our NO Excuses scholars, Layla Muktar and Ayiana Hernandez-Kiehn, in our Youth Collective Mentorship program came up with the idea to create a Coloring book with activities to reach grade school scholars. They wanted to start earlier on prevention. Their passion in the project led them to receive a youth-led grant award from the Youth Healing Project (Cities Rise). In their words:

Our vision is to empower our youth by giving them an outlet to better express their emotions. It will also be an outlet for educators, young adults and parents to get a better understanding of the status of their students social and emotional literacy. Our plan is to outreach to local grade schools to facilitate workshops with our coloring book full of activities!