LIA WPJH Illumination Event '24 Highlight Video.mp4
"Illumination": A wonderful community mental health awareness event fueled by energetic student volunteers from throughout DSD, including WPJH LIA students.
WPJH LIA class volunteered for the 4th year in a row at the Syracuse City Illumination Mental Health Awareness Event. Their Confidence Boosting Button Booth’s focus was Positive Affirmations to Build Self-Esteem. Positive affirmations are kind things we can say to ourselves to help build our self-confidence (skills & abilities) and self-esteem (self-image). The week prior to the event, LIA students designed and created handmade positive “I message” buttons like “I’m beautiful”, “I’m Important”, etc. During the event, LIA students invited the public to choose a button to keep and wear and to shout out the button’s message to the world via the megaphone. Confidence was boosted by both the givers and the receivers and class unity was strengthened.