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, /PRNewswire/ -- and (MLP) have announced a transformative project that will bring a proven and successful school-based mindfulness programming that supports the mental and emotional health of the students, educators, and families to schools in the area. MLP has successfully scaled the organization into 13 cities across the , California Central Coast and the California Central Valley to serve over 75 schools a year, providing a foundation of mental and emotional wellbeing so that schools can go from historically stress-and trauma-inducing places to spaces of healing and empowerment for students, teachers and communities. Unlikely Collaborators has provided MLP a seed grant of to both grow capacity to help scale the organization to as well as to launch programming in two area schools.

MLP programs serve TK-8th grade students, their educators, and families in schools and school districts that have high poverty, violence, and intergenerational trauma – districts that also frequently lack adequate resources and programming to support the mental health of all in the educational ecosystem. The launch took place in early April at Aspire Titan Academy and Aspire Antonio Maria Lugo Academy. "Schools can become places of belonging, compassion, and wellness when students and educators practice mindfulness," says Mindful Life Project founder and CEO JG Larochette.



"Starting mindfulness in early education creates a habit of expanding Perception Boxes when a child is still developing. W.

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