Announcements/Business:
 
  • We have 540 boxes of peaches to deliver on Friday.  
  • Thanks to Ed for getting additional t-shirts for the backpacks---thanks to Mt. Evans Home Care and Hospice.  
  • Finn announced that there was a kazoo concert at the top of “Rotary Peak” a couple of weeks ago. Sept 8, the Rotary exchange students will hike the Peak.  
  • The Back Packs need granola bars.
  • The FaceBook fund-raiser for bicycles for Kenyan farmers met its goal of $2500.
  • For our Social event, the Club is going to Triceratops Trail, off of Fossil Trace Golf Course:  take 6thto 19thin Golden, and the first right into the parking lot.  Meet at 11 am.  
  • The planning committee for the 2020 Music event will meet after the Rotary meeting next week. Please plan to stay to help.
  • PLEASE BRING YOUR OWN COFFEE MUG TO LEAVE AT MRC FOR OUR BREAKFAST MEETING---LESLEY WILL WASH THEM EACH WEEK.  Stop Styrofoam!!!
 
 
Program: Resilience for Life: Lean-in1220
Heather (Ning) Aberg, LCSW
 
Heather started Lean-In 1220 when she recognized the need that young people have for dealing with their worries and pains that are leading to suicide.  She shared statistics of youth suicide rates are much higher in our area than in the country at large.  The rates are highest among the LGBTQ students.
 
The name:  lean-into your emotions; the organization serves young people ages 12-20.  In Colorado, now young people can sign in for care on their own.  Lean-in offers free counseling up to 10 sessions.  There are 15 therapists who donate services.  They meet kids wherever it is comfortable and barrier-free, even taking walks or meeting in a coffee shop.  They serve kids in Evergreen, Clear Creek and are expanding to include Platte Canyon.  
 
Besides individual therapy, there are groups:  included are groups for the gay community, a “gifted” group who call themselves “the scream beams”—they do not want to be labeled “gifted”, a “resilience” group where they are learning how to live with stresses, and a grief group.  They are going to start a book Club: parents and kids will read the same books.  There will be a group for young boys.  The therapists also do outreach presentations with various groups where kids and families gather.  
 
How we can help: Sponsor the Evergreen Enchanted Fairy Festival (Sept 8 in Evergreen; Donate to leanin1220.org.  Participate in a Mental Health First aid course---October 6, at the Fire Dept in Bergen Park.  QPR training—a condensed mental health first aid.  
 
Guests:  Morti Longsdorf