Attending the Annual Summit on the State of Education in Massachusetts

Afterward, we got to spend time together as staff at Rainbows Pottery Studio and focus on team-building exercises!

Peer Mentor Graduation at BAMSI

Hooray for another successful training at BAMSI with this wonderful crew. After four days of learning about suicide prevention and advocating for youth mental health, we have some new leaders! We can’t wait to see you all shine, whether you continue with us or become trailblazers within your own communities Let’s hear it for the grads!

The NAN Project Holiday Party

Happy Holidays from The NAN Project team! This week we got to celebrate the work that we’ve accomplished so far this school year with a holiday party at King’s Bowling. We’d like to take some time this holiday season to reflect on our gratitude toward all of our sponsors and supporters. We couldn’t do our work without out you

Teens in Need Drive

The Teens in Need donation drive was a huge success! Thank you to everyone who generously contributed donations, your support will have a powerful impact on the lives of local teens! We’d also like to express huge gratitude to those who helped organize the drive, with a special shout out to Lexi and the Rappas family Liz Paciello Rappa Here are some photos of The NAN Project dropping off the donations at the youth access centers, YouthElemento and YouForward

Speaking at Beacon Hill

Lizzie, Assistant Director, and Sarojini, Organizational Development Coordinator, had the opportunity to testify in support of Bill H. 1979. This bill could establish a School Behavioral Health Implementation Coordinating Council that will develop a three year plan for statewide implementation of comprehensive school behavioral health, ensuring that students in every district have access to the support they need.

To learn more and show your support by contacting your legislators, visit this site: https://childrensmentalhealthcampaign.salsalabs.org/…

Night for NAN 2023

All smiles at the Night for NAN reception last night! We’d like to thank everyone who took the time to come celebrate Nan’s legacy with us at @Danversport last night! It was a fantastic night filled with love, admiration, and connection. What a fantastic event to reflect on all the amazing work that the NAN Project does! We couldn’t do it without all of our supporters Enjoy the first of many N4N posts!!

Woburn Student Mental Health Roundtable

To read more about the roundtable, check out this Boston Globe article: https://www.bostonglobe.com/…/education-secretary…/

Transportation Day

Last week, the NAN Project hosted a “Learning Public Transportation” day for some of our peer mentors. The initiative of the event was to aid our local peer mentors in learning how to get around to different areas of Massachusetts using public transport. Overall the day was a huge success with lots of smiles and CharlieCards! Thank you to all who participated

The NAN Project Billboard

If you take the I-93 this month, make sure to be on the look out for our new Nan Project billboard! We recently partnered with Pebbles of Strength for Suicide Prevention month to spread awareness about mental health and our nonprofit. This suicide prevention month, let’s spread hope through action!

Creative Prep for Night for NAN

Over the past two weeks, our peer mentors have been dedicating their time to working on the centerpieces for the Night for Nan event happening October 19th! Can you guess what the final project is going to be? Be sure to come to A Night For Nan to see the culmination of all of this creativity!