Doc Wayne In The News

In honor of Mental Health Awareness Month, Doc Wayne was featured on WBZ News/CBS Boston where Managing Director Becky Roulier, LMHC, discussed our programs and impact across the Greater Boston area and beyond. You can watch the video...

Goals for Good, a three-on-three soccer tournament to raise money for youth mental health care, was held on Sunday at Newton South High School. The event was organized by three rising Newton seniors— Liza Friedman, Jesse Dash and Risa Goldfeld— who are also...

David Cohen, MBA ’01 is CEO at Boston-based nonprofit Doc Wayne, an organization that serves youth by integrating sports into traditional therapeutic practices. In his role, Cohen shapes local and global strategy, builds strategic and philanthropic relationships...

In collaboration with Emerson basketball, the women’s and men’s basketball teams raised just under two thousand dollars to donate to Doc Wayne Youth Services, a non-profit organization that specializes in sport-based therapy centered on improving mental health for...

Tref Borden, an experienced nonprofit professional who received her Mindfulness Graduate Program degree in 2023, has joined the Board of Directors for Doc Wayne Youth Services. Learn more about Doc Wayne’s innovative sport-based mental health therapy work.

Christina Wood Baker, Ph.D., has joined the Board of Directors of Doc Wayne Youth Services, a nonprofit provider of sport-based mental health therapy for youth. The Boston-based organization has reached 1 million youth in 32 countries, including 2,880 served weekly...

Doc Wayne Youth Services, a nonprofit innovator and provider of sport-based mental health therapy for youth, is has announced that Christina Wood Baker, Ph.D., has joined the organization’s board.

While the center celebrates happy times, knowing that each kid comes from a low-income household, they also prioritize discussing life’s adversities as well. This is done through Doc Wayne, a non-profit organization that utilizes a sports-based curriculum to...

  Investments in organizations across Connecticut, Massachusetts and Rhode Island will increase equitable access to health care and address health-related social needs WOONSOCKET, R.I., Dec. 6, 2023 — The CVS Health® (NYSE: CVS) Foundation today announced it...

Doc Wayne Youth Services, a nonprofit innovator and provider of sport-based mental health therapy for youth, has announced that Yvonne Castaneda, LICSW, MSW, CLC, has joined its Board.

WCVB Presents Series of Grants Totaling More Than $260,000 to Five Local, Youth-Focused Nonprofits Marking Channel 5’s 50th Year Serving the Community. WCVB Channel 5 Announces Recipients of its “FIFTY YEARS FUND”, with Doc Wayne as a proud recipient of a $100,000...

A group of students in South Boston got a chance to play alongside members of the New England Patriots organization Tuesday as the Patriots partnered with the Doc Wayne Youth Services program on Mental Health Awareness month programming.

In recognition of Mental Health Awareness Month in the U.S., we’re highlighting work being done by our partners and network members to improve mental wellbeing through sport. Massachusetts-based nonprofit, Doc Wayne Youth Services, Inc. — a member of our...

Solutions that help establish those values often include engaging teenagers in productive activities well before they’re involved in something dubious. Organizations across the country have attempted to do just that. Here are a few programs that have found measured...