Marblehead Students Invited To Design Community Wellness T-Shirts

MARBLEHEAD, MA — Marblehead students are invited to submit designs for Marblehead Counseling Center T-shirts to be featured at the inaugural Community Wellness Day.

Students in grades 7 through 12 are asked to design a graphic or logo that represents community wellness. The shirts will then be displayed at the Community Wellness Day on June 22 from 1 to 4 p.m. at Hobbs Playground.

Entries are due on May 31 with the winner announced on June 10.

The first Community Wellness Day celebrates the Counseling Center's 55 years of offering mental health and social services in the town. Efforts are being made to reach more children and young adults with cases of mental, social and emotional health struggles increasing in the wake of the COVID-19 health crisis.

"As we celebrate May as Mental Health Awareness Month and gear up for our first Community Wellness Day in June, we thought a contest for high school and middle school students would be a great way to include young people and share with them some of the offerings and services of the counseling center," Marblehead Board of Directors President Ruth Ferguson said.

The designs should be in a single color and accompanied by a short description explaining their work. Proceeds from T-shirt sales will go directly to support the Counseling Center's work, including making mental health treatment and social services available and affordable to those who need it.

Information on how to submit a design entry can be found here.

(Scott Souza is a Patch field editor covering Beverly, Danvers, Marblehead, Peabody, Salem and Swampscott. He can be reached at Scott.Souza@Patch.com. X/Twitter: @Scott_Souza.)