Health

• Weekly cooking workshops

• social-emotional Workshops where students discuss a different mental health topic each time

• Physical Fitness/Workouts

• Music matters: The connection between music and the mind has long been researched and scientists say that listening to music can reduce anxiety, blood pressure, and pain as well as improve sleep quality, mood, mental alertness, and memory.

• Yoga/Mindfulness

“I am thankful LIFT Youth Center is free because LIFT is essential for today’s teens and if it wasn’t free a lot of people would have to miss out.”

- LIFT Student

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In 2022: 73,000 students reported having seriously considered harming themselves

43,905 students reported having harmed themselves.”

*Georgia Voices Report, “All About Kids: Factsheets about Georgia’s Children.”