Service
State Service Project
In February 2020, Project Be Well was approved as the NMASC Community Service focus through state conference 2023. School councils are encouraged to research and come up with their own project(s) that focus on Be Well.
In addition to individual student council service projects, at NMASC statewide events (Summer Workshop, Fall District Conferences, State Conference), student delegates will participate in a service project focused on Be Well.
Suggestions for Working with Be Well in Your Community
(the projects listed below are just suggestions/ideas; your council is not limited to what is listed and many of the categories overlap)
Project Be Well: Mental/Emotional Well-Being
- Stress, depression, anxiety
- Suicide awareness, prevention, where to seek help
- PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder)
- Eating disorders
- Personality disorders
Project Ideas:
- Host a mental health screening event
- Talk about it. Be a supportive friend. Listen to people and never judge.
- Share your story
- HelpYourselfHelpOthers.org
- Start a suicide prevention program/learn what to do when someone threatens
Project Be Well: Social Well-Being
- Gun violence/gun control
- Bullying
- Homelessness
- Human/sex trafficking
Project Ideas:
- Definition: interaction a person has with their “community”
- School activities/athletic fairs; encourage every student to be involved in at least one school activity
- Positive peer pressure to help stop bullying
- Awareness drives
- Definition: involvement in the decision-making process
- Add a layer to student government: establish a homeroom representative
- Monthly meeting to gain input from the student body on a variety of school policies; and add communication with the student body
- R.S.V.P. process (Raising Student Voice & Participation)
Project Be Well: Behavioral Well-Being
- The connections between behaviors and the health and well-being of the body, mind ans spirit
- Alcohol/substance/vaping use
- Family health
- Human rights
Project Ideas:
- with the elderly, veterans, substance awareness
Project Be Well: Spiritual Well-Being
- Connectedness with self, others, art, music, literature, nature or a power greater than oneself
- Love, joy, principles, morals, values, be kind to one another
Project Ideas:
- Create a yoga club or a lunchtime positivity group
- Volunteerism/mentoring
- Dude. Be Nice. (dudebenice.com)
- Character Counts / Be Kind initiatives
Project Be Well: Physical Well-Being
- Good nutrition/eating habits
- Physical activity
- Prevention/detection of illness
- Environment and sustainability
- Healthcare
Project Ideas:
- Backpack project for students in need or food for weekends, school breaks
- School/personal hygiene/clothing supply “closet” for students in need
- “A-thons” – jog, dance, shoot, hoops, jump rope, etc.
- Health related projects with kids younger than those in your council
Project Be Well: Financial Well-Being
- Budgeting – effectively pay bills while saving for future goals
- Personal/family finance
- Grocery shopping and meal planning on a budget
- Money plays a critical role in our lives and not having enough of it impacts health and academic performance
Project Ideas:
- Take an online class on Financial Fitness
- Help plan family meals and make market order
Wellness Wednesday
Wellness Wednesday is designed to foster the development of healthy habits and lay the groundwork for students to lead a balanced and healthy lifestyle.
- Tips on daily announcements
- CharacterStrong’s Resource Gym
- Student Council event: make a friendship bracelet. Challenge: give it away by the end of the day
- Peer-to-peer learning to make an impact on your campus or in your community
- Create posters dealing with any/all of the Project Be Well ideas that you are implementing
2022 Project of the Year Entries
The following projects were submitted at the 2022 NMASC State Conference. Click/tap a category title to see the submissions.
Citizenship
Middle School
- Harrison Middle School: "Empowered Bathroom"
- Sierra Middle School: "The Hugs Project"
High School
- Early College Academy: "Citizenship: Reading for Purpose"
- Nex+Gen Academy: "Griffin Contacts"
- Sandia High School: "Sandia Gives Back"
Community Service
Middle School
- Camino Real Middle School: "Ask and You Shall Receive"
- Dexter Middle School: "Serving the Community"
- Dulce Middle School: "The Triple C: Caring Cookies of Cindness"
High School
- Artesia High School: "Pink Week"
- Bernalillo High School: "2nd Annual Toy Drive"
- Bloomfield High School: "Toiletry Drive"
- Capital High School: "To Infinity... And Be Well"
- Cibola High School: "Seed2Need"
- Del Norte High School: "2nd Annual Trunk or Treat"
- Deming High School: "Proyecto Armario para la Comunidad"
- Dexter High School: "Canned Food Drive"
- East Mountain High School: "First Responders Breakfast"
- Farmington High School: "Clothes for Kids"
- Highland High School: "Highland's PJ Donation"
- La Cueva High School: "12 Days of Giving"
- Lovington High School: "Trunk or Treat"
- Manzano High School: "Active Military Packages"
- Mayfield High School: "Four Projects - One Mission"
- Organ Mountain High School: "Community Service: Trunk or Treat"
- Pojoaque Valley High School: "Big Brothers Big Sisters"
- Pojoaque Valley High School: "Pojoaque's Giving Tree"
- Portales High School: "PHS Canned Food Drive"
- Ruidoso High School: "The Season of Giving"
- Sandia High School: "Trick or Treat for Cans"
- Volcano Vista High School: "Carrie Tingley Festival of Trees"
Environmental Awareness
Middle School
- Tony Hillerman Middle School: "Recycling Project"
High School
- Albuquerque High School: "Go Green/Green Paw Project"
Fundraising
Middle School
- Ruidoso Middle School: "RMS 'You've Been Flocked' Fundraising State Project"
- Cleveland Middle School: "Cleveland Competes"
High School
- Las Cruces High School: "Cruces Student Union: Project of the Year"
Health & Safety
Middle School
- Harrison Middle School: "Starting our HMS GSA"
High School
- West Mesa High School: "Domestic Violence Awareness Donation Drive"
Membership Motivation
Middle School
No middle school submissions in this category
High School
- Aztec High School: "AzteCrew"
- Bernalillo High School: "Killer Kindness"
- Dexter High School: "Kindness in Chalk"
- Highland High School: "Highland Senate Tree Decorating Competition"
- Volcano Vista High School: "VVHS Senate Field Day"
School Service
Middle School
- Camino Real Middle School: "We Are One"
- Red Mountain Middle School: "Red Mountain Middle School Stuco School Project"
High School
- Artesia High School: "Warm Welcome"
- Atrisco Heritage Academy: "Genter Neutral Courts"
- Centennial High School: "A Best Buddies Christmas"
- East Mountain High School: "Prom Picnic"
- Eldorado High School: "Soar Week"
- Española Valley High School: "School Clean Up Day"
- La Cueva High School: "Be Cool To Your School"
- Rio Grande High School: "Take What You Need"
- Rio Rancho High School: "Moving Up Ceremony"
- West Mesa High School: "Turkey Trot"
Spirit
Middle School
- Dulce Middle School: "Hawk School Spirit"
- Hermosa Middle School: "Hermosa School Spirit"
High School
- Cibola High School: "Homecoming Week 2021... New Traditions?"
- Clovis High School: "CHS School Spirit"
- Del Norte High School: "A Haunted Homecoming"
- Las Cruces High School: "Cruces Student Union: Project of the Year - Fun Fridays"
- Los Alamos High School: "Sparking School Spirit at LAHS"
- Los Lunas High School: "12 Days of Giving"
- Rio Grande High School: "Soaring with Spirit"
- V. Sue Cleveland: "Themed Football Games"
Staff Relations
Middle School
- Cleveland Middle School: "Teacher Appreciation"
- James Monroe Middle School: "Rockstar Teacher Awards"
- Los Alamos Middle School: "Hawk Happy Hour"
High School
- Albuquerque High School: "Teacher Welcome Back Assembly"
- Aztec High School: "We Love Our Teachers"
- Bloomfield High School: "Taco Lunch"
- Los Alamos High School: "You Got A Teacher in LAHS"
- Rio Rancho High School: "Holiday Party for Staff"
State Project: Be Well
Middle School
- Dexter Middle School: "Behavioral Bully Prevention"
- Ruidoso Middle School: "RMS 'Be Well' State Project"
High School
- Centennial High School: "Wellness Wednesday: Paint and Sip"
- Clovis High School: "CHS Mental Health"
- Deming High School: "Celebrating Community Fine Arts"
- Eldorado High School: "Project Kindness Day"
- Farmington High School: "Mental Health Fair"
- Mayfield High School: "Giving Back in the Borderland"
- Organ Mountain High School: "Be Well: Project Christmas"
- Ruidoso High School: "Warrior Wellness"
- V. Sue Cleveland High School: "Wellness Week"
- Valencia High School: "Lending a Helping Hand"
2021 Project of the Year Entries
The following projects were submitted at the 2021 NMASC State Conference. Click/tap a category title to see the submissions.
Citizenship
No Citizenship project entries this year.
Community Service
- Cleveland Middle School: “Blankets of Hope”
- Albuquerque High School: “Food & Clothing Drive”
- Artesia High School: “Military Goodie Bags”
- Bernalillo High School: “First Annual Toy Drive”
- Bloomfield High School: “Strengthening Our Community”
- Clovis High School: “Community Project”
- Deming High School: “Food for Families”
- Farmington High School: “Reading to Kids”
- Highland High School: “Highland’s Little Library”
- La Cueva High School: “12 Days of Giving”
- Los Alamos High School: “Community Service with a Food Drive”
- Las Cruces High School: “LCHS Food Pantry”
- Lovington High School: “Virtual Veterans Day Assembly”
- Rio Grande High School: “Junior Ravens Project”
- Rio Rancho High School: “Senior Citizen Project”
- Sandia High School: “Trick or Treat for Cans”
- V. Sue Cleveland High School: “Food Drive”
Environmental Awareness
- Mayfield High School: “Giving Back to the Environment”
- Sandia High School: “Environmental Awareness”
- Volcano Vista High School: “Staff Tumblers”
Fundraising
- Cleveland Middle School: “Cooking with Cleveland”
- Harrison Middle School: “Albuquerque Community Foundation Tech Fund”
- Bernalillo High School: “Scarf Sale”
- Oñate High School: “Fundraising”
Health & Safety
- Aztec High School: “Get to Green”
- Centennial High School: “Health Care Appreciation“
Membership Motivation
- Aztec High School: “Aztecrew”
- Rio Rancho High School: “Secret Stuco”
School Service
- Harrison Middle School: “Bitmoji HMS – Virtual School Tour”
- Ruidoso Middle School: “Adopt a Peer”
- Atrisco Heritage Academy: “Dude Be Nice”
- Cibola High School: “Dude Be Nice Month”
- Del Norte High School: “8th Grade Activity Day & Pep Rally”
- Eldorado High School: “Student-Led Professional Development”
- Manzano High School: “Operation Camera Strong”
Spirit
- Koogler Middle School: “Virtual Spirit Week”
- Centennial High School: “Hawk the Yard”
- Cibola High School: “Spring Online Spirit Assembly”
- Clovis High School: “School Spirit”
- Del Norte High School: “Virtual Spirit Week”
- Las Cruces High School: “Halloween Spirit Week”
- Los Alamos High School: “Topper Spirit in a Pandemic”
- Nex+Gen Academy: “Dude Be Nice to Students”
- Manzano High School: “A Different Spin on a Classic Tradition”
- V. Sue Cleveland High School: “You’ve Been Struck”
Staff Relations
- Artesia High School: “Spooky Baskets”
- Bloomfield High School: “Giving Thanks to the Staff”
- Rio Grande High School: “Staff Relations at RGHS”
- Ruidoso High School: “Teacher Appreciation:
State Project: Be Well
- Dexter Middle School: “Mental Health”
- Koogler Middle School: “Safe Teen NM/Dangers of Vaping”
- Sierra Middle School: “Reading Buddies”
- Albuquerque High School: “Hot-Choc-And-Talk”
- Deming High School: “Leading with Kindness”
- Early College Academy: “Elemental Outreach”
- Eldorado High School: “Virtual Mental Health Fair”
- Española Valley High School: “Be Well”
- Farmington High School: “Spiritual Well-Being”
- Highland High School: “Highland’s Be Well Week”
- Los Lunas High School: “Social Emotional Learning Workbook”
- Mayfield High School: “Project Purple”
- Nex+Gen Academy: “Nex+Gen Announcements”
- Oñate High School: “Pen-Pal Project”
- Pojoaque Valley High School: “Mental Health”
- Ruidoso High School: “Be Kind to Your Mind”
- Volcano Vista High School: “Hawk Kindness”