Self Love and Acceptance for Youth

Category: Health and Wellness

Summary: Our topic that year was Self Love and Acceptance for Youth (SLAY). Our goal was to bring awareness in our community to the issue of body insecurity in young people often sparked by unrealistic body ideals represented in the media. We achieved this in several ways. The main way was through having a “SLAY week” at at our school and “SLAY day” at the middle school: a week in which we hosted activities that celebrated body positivity. We hired a band made of students to write an anthem for our campaign using the winning poem from a poetry contest we had. We went personally from classroom to classroom to present our project to the students, showing them statistics and examples to demonstrate how widespread and dire the problem truly was. To expand our campaign outside of school, we interviewed people at Venice beach. We also used instagram to reach many people and leave a lasting imprint on people after our campaign ended.