Rachel Bartnett

Rachel Bartnett, a fourth-year student at Loyola University Chicago’s Stritch School of Medicine, plans to create and implement consistent mental health programming & wellness education sessions at Maywood Fine Arts, a nonprofit organization that provides quality arts education to low-income Black and Latinx youth in the Maywood area. Her programming will address the eight pillars of a wellness wheel: physical, social, emotional, intellectual, financial, occupational, environmental, and spiritual. This project will equip school-age students from diverse backgrounds with critical knowledge about mental health & wellness, while also organizing community assets such that programming can be replicated for years to come. Rachel hopes to raise $400 for art supplies to be used during mental health sessions across the year, including the creation of a bullet journal for each child.