Our first season!
Spring 2025
Over the spring of 2025, we completed our first full season of The Wellness Effect at College Park Academy. Here’s how it went.
Our sessions
The first half of our program was content-based, providing lessons on public health topics such as e-health literacy. During the second half of our program, sessions were spent creating a health campaign!
Our campaign
Students voted on sanitation as their community health issue of focus. They worked on material to improve sanitation among students in ways such as having a quality morning routine, effectively washing hands, and showering regularly.
Posters with QR codes
Students split into three groups, creating posters to be featured around the school. Each poster highlighted a different aspect of sanitation (ex. showering, washing hands).
Students researched the importance of these practices and how to best practice these behaviors. They highlighted evidence on posters.
Students placed a QR code on each poster, linking to a “sanitation pledge” to be used by students. This would be used as a way to measure poster success.
Soap drive
We purchased bottles of Soft Soap along with germ stickers, tags, and string.
Students wrote a fact, tip, or motivational sentence about hand washing on each tag, which they tied around soap bottles and decorated with germ stickers.
Students created a poster with more facts and tips about hand washing, along with a pledge to sanitation that students could sign.
Program participants passed out soap bottles during a lunch period alongside their poster.
Our impact
According to our pre- and post-program surveys, on average, students improved in their ability to understand health information that they see or read. Students also improved in their understanding of which health information sources are reliable. Furthermore, students became more comfortable with asking a doctor questions over the course of our program.