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Doc Wayne Youth Services

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Our mission is to fuse sports and therapy to heal and strengthen at-risk youth. We deliver our sport-based mental health therapies to all youth between the ages of 5 and 18. Our approach intentionally breaks down barriers and the stigma associated with mental health in order to ensure mental health therapy is an option to more youth. Mental health support allows these children and teens to perform better academically and engage fully in their communities, growing in to strong leaders.

We are honored and excited to be a part of Falmouth Road Race.

Our team goal this year is $10,000.

Whether you are joining our team or supporting us with a donation, THANK YOU for helping a child in need. 

Join Team Doc Wayne by clicking here: JOIN NOW 

HOW YOU CAN HELP

50% of all lifetime cases of mental illness begin by age 14. Approximately half of students aged 14 and up with a mental health challenge will drop out of school. 

Please consider a donation because 80% of children living with a mental health challenge do not receive the support they need.

Every penny helps. For every $30 raised, Doc Wayne can provide a mental health session to a child in need.

OUR MISSION

Doc Wayne’s mission is to fuse sport and therapy to heal and strengthen at-risk youth.

WHO WE ARE

Doc Wayne is an award-winning non-profit headquartered in Boston. Doc Wayne has pioneered the approach to sports-based, mental health services that has catalyzed a movement. Our approach, accessible to clinicians, coaches, and educators around the world puts sport and play into practice using an evidence-informed curriculum incorporating social-emotional learning and life skills. Doc Wayne's flagship program in Boston called Chalk Talk® destigmatizes mental health. Our program is offered on a weekly basis in school systems and other youth-serving organizations. Our team leads weekly sessions with students, ages 5-18, designed to support them as they process and persevere through adversity. We believe that by supporting the Whole Child — on the field and off — we can develop more resilient learners and leaders.

WHO WE SERVE

Doc Wayne serves more than 500 students each week at 23 different sites in eastern Massachusetts. During the Spring of 2020, we led more than 2,000 sport-based group therapy telehealth sessions.

WATCH: Please take a moment to be inspired by this video of how soccer and social justice reunited childhood friends:  FOX25 DOC WAYNE SPOTLIGHT 

CHECKS: If you would prefer to mail a check in support of one of our runners, please make out to Doc Wayne and send to: 418 Commonwealth Ave Boston, MA 02215. Please include the runner's name in the memo portion of the check.

CONTACT DOC WAYNE: avillarreal@docwayne.org 

VISIT: our website at: www.docwayne.org  

 

DOC WAYNE is a registered 501c3 non-profit organization (27-4216064) and your donation is fully tax-deductible.

 


THANK YOU for supporting our team and our mission!

YOU are truly making a difference in a child’s life.

 


Teams

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Individuals

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Recent donors

Recent donors
Date Name Amount
Aug 21 Goodwin Team Way to go, Meghan! $109.85
Aug 19 Sally, Ken and Henry Amazing cause! Great job running! $28.10
Aug 18 Lara Zelman Congrats on the race and great job on fundraising! Undisclosed amount
Aug 18 Anonymous Undisclosed amount
Aug 15 MVO You’ll do great! $28.10
Aug 14 Catherine Connerty Go Terry Go!! BAMF Undisclosed amount
Aug 14 Anonymous run fast Undisclosed amount
Aug 14 Leah Good luck, Meghan! $28.10
Aug 14 Aoife Johannesen Let’s go girl!! Love you $25.00
Aug 13 Nicole Torpey Go Brooke!! $55.35