Free Event To Help Anxious Students Move To School Post-COVID

Cleveland OH

12 August, 2021

11:54 AM

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Press release from The Missing Link, C.O.P.E. Inc.: Aug. 12, 2021 Cleveland, OH — August XX, 2021 — As Cleveland-area students prepare to transition back toin-person learning this fall, many for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic hit, parents arenavigating their children's anxieties — and their own anxieties — as they reintegrate to a schoolsetting. The Missing Link, C.O.P.E. Inc., a Cleveland-area nonprofit, works with underserved communitiesto provide services through community collaboration, workshop facilitation, and mental healthchallenge training. The organization is focused on empowering individuals to improvecommunication skills, build self-confidence, and adopt healthy ways of coping with life's dailystressors. The Missing Link, C.O.P.E. Inc. emphasizes the importance of providing education tocombat mental health stigma. Students in grades K-12 are invited to attend a cost-free weekend event hosted by The MissingLink to mentally and emotionally prepare students to re-enter the school setting in Fall 2021.During the three-day event in which all supplies and materials will be provided, students will beintroduced to Haiku painting as a form of artistic expression, yoga, meditation, and other copingmechanisms. Students in low-income communities and minority students have been disproportionatelyimpacted by the pandemic. Teachers report that these students are more likely to have beenlearning remotely for longer than their more privileged peers, and more likely to not have hadtheir school building open all of last year. Interview, video + photo opportunity | Students and instructors are available for interviews. WHAT: The Missing Link, C.O.P.E., Inc. presents C.O.P.E. WeekendWHEN: Thursday, Aug. 19 | Coping through artistic expression | Haiku paintingFriday, Aug. 20 | Coping through body movement and meditationSaturday, Aug. 21 | Community Resource Fair (free school supplies & Coping Boxes)WHERE: Revolutionary Love Community Garden (corner of 123rd and Imperial) | ClevelandIf interested in doing a story on C.O.P.E Weekend, please contact Laylah [email protected]. Note: Additional video and interview opportunities available Aug. 14-18 when volunteers will beassembling Coping Boxes for event participants. During the COVID-19 Pandemic, The MissingLink's Project Coping Box was designed to assist youth (and their families) in navigating emotionsof loneliness, stress, anxiety, anger, and more due to social isolation brought on by COVID-19. Todate, more than 800 Coping Boxes have been distributed. About The Missing Link, C.O.P.E., Inc.Behaviors and practices exposed to children during the development years can greatly impacthow children grow into adulthood, manage relationships, finances, employment, and eventuallyparenting. As a child develops, he or she yearns for structure and redirection. The Missing Link,C.O.P.E., Inc. is committed to identifying youths (age 7-19) who are going to experience transitions into adulthood and offer a support system to avoid the pitfalls that can derail their lives and overall development. Our programs and community events are in place to help students unlearn negative patterns, identify more effective methods of action, and apply intervention as necessary to promote a sense of purpose and the ability to lead a productive life. This press release was produced by The Missing Link, C.O.P.E., Inc. The views expressed here are the author's own.