Doc Wayne In The News

Funds will be used by grantees to help them lead changes across our communities. Doc Wayne has been awarded $100,000 from NBC Universal.

Adults have long appreciated the mental health benefits of mindfulness. A recently published study in the International Journal of Spa and Wellness has demonstrated that there are positive impacts for children aged 9-12 too when teachers deliver school-based mindfulness interventions. Maggie Yuan, ED.D., LMHC, is the Program Director for Doc Wayne and shares her thoughts.

In the April Issue of The Provider: The Newspaper of the Provider’s Council, Rebekah Roulier, LMHC, shares the reality, hope, and work to be done on the mental health front amidst “the unrelenting pandemic and economic, political and racial strife of the past year…” in Viewpoints from Across the State.

Beth Caronna of Malden [Massachusetts], was recently hired as a Champions Network™ Facilitator at Doc Wayne Youth Services after interning and attending[as a client] there.

[David Cohen, CEO shares] how mental health (for all ages) has been an escalating crisis in the United States for years, with no substantial plan to address it. Mental health should be given the same priority as physical health; it shouldn’t be a line item on a list of questions asked at annual physicals or by a school nurse.

Boston-based nonprofit uses sports — now online — to address stress and mental health issues for young people. Maggie Yuan, ED.D., LMHC is the Program Director for Doc Wayne and oversees the clinical team and delivery of clinical programming, and develops and maintains relationships with external program partners.

Rebekah Roulier, nonprofit executive leader and licensed mental health clinician focused on driving innovation in the mental health and youth sport communities, speaks with host Chris Meek about the relationship between sport and mental health.

WEYMOUTH, MA — A Weymouth resident has joined Doc Wayne Youth Services, a Boston nonprofit that uses sport-based therapy to help at-risk youth, as a Facilitator for the organization’s Champions Network training platform.

Doc Wayne Youth Services, a Boston nonprofit that fuses sport and therapy to strengthen at-risk youth, announces it has added 12 team members in varying roles to address the increasing demand for its services in the light of the pandemic as well as political and racial strife.

Doc Wayne Youth Services recently announced Natasha Goss, of Weymouth, joined the team as a facilitator for the Champions Network.

As a facilitator, Goss will conduct trainings on various topics and support the Network.