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Mental Health Campaign Goals

• Wellness rooms/centers in each school (We Won 11 Rooms in HSD!)

• Bigger Budget for Mental Health in Next Year’s School Budget

• Full-Time Therapists with similar lived experiences

• Culturally Affirming Social-Emotional Learning in all schools

  • SEL and Crisis Support training for teachers

Learn More about What Students Want on Campus by Reading our Infographic!

School Food Campaign Goals

We Want

FREE

Food

We want breakfast and lunch to be free for all students

• Clear all lunch debt from students accounts so meals are accessible to all students regardless of income
• School districts should enroll in the Community Eligibility Provision to give everyone free meals 

🍎 Seattle School Meals & Food Education Working Group 

At FEEST, we’re proud to be founding members of the Seattle School Meals & Food Education Working Group—a powerful collaboration with Seattle Public Schools, the City of Seattle, King County, and community organizations. Together, we’re transforming school meals and food education to create lasting change for students.

In 2022-2023, we helped shape Priority Action Recommendations to improve school food systems:

• Boost High-Quality School Meals: Expand fresh, scratch-cooked, and culturally relevant meals developed with student input. This improves student health, academic success, and strengthens the local food economy.
• Free School Food for All: Ensure equity by making school meals free for every student, eliminating barriers, and reducing food insecurity.
• Integrate Food & Garden Education: Create opportunities for hands-on learning with food and gardens, fostering lifelong skills, healthy habits, and community connection.

These goals ensure students are nourished, engaged, and empowered. Together, we’re making school meals more equitable, accessible, and impactful. Read more about this major win here. 

11 Wellness Rooms implemented in the Highline School District

🏆 Big win for student-led organizing! This year, FEEST’s student organizers secured 11 Wellness Rooms across Highline School District, creating safe spaces for students to decompress, connect, and practice self-care. Their ideas didn’t stay in the room—they’re now a reality in 11 schools.

This milestone is part of FEEST’s ongoing commitment to mental health as a key factor in improving student wellness. In Seattle Public Schools, FEEST began championing a Wellness Room at Rainier Beach High School in 2022. Over the past year, students hosted feedback sessions and surveys to shape the design. This space, informed by student voices, will open with the new building in winter 2025.

These Wellness Rooms are a powerful testament to youth leadership and their vision for holistic student well-being.

Police Removed from Seattle Public Schools

FEEST partnered with Black Minds Matter and WA-BLOC in a campaign to have police officers removed from Seattle Public Schools. We created a petition that gathered about 20,000 signatures signed by parents, students, and community members. We presented the petition to the Seattle School Board and worked with School Board Member Brandon Hersey to write a referendum that the board could vote on. The school board voted unanimously to end their partnership with the Seattle Police Department.

New Water Bottle Filling Stations

FEEST partnered with the Office of Sustainability and Environment to bring new water bottle filling stations to Rainier Beach High School and Chief Sealth High School, at youth-chosen locations. This was especially significant at Rainier Beach, where there was only 1 clean water station for all students.

Youth-designed Snack Program at School

FEEST Youth Leaders in Seattle designed a snack program that gave free fruits and protein snacks to students during the school day. This program was made in partnership with the Seattle Office of Sustainability and Environment (OSE) and Seattle Public Schools (SPS) Nutrition Services. After a successful test run at Chief Sealth High School, SPS agreed before the pandemic to expand the program to Rainier Beach High School and eventually the rest of the Seattle Public Schools. The success of this program at Chief Sealth proved that youth can and should design effective solutions for the problems that directly affect them.

Culturally Relevant Foods on the Lunch Menu

FEEST students have partnered with Nutrition Services Directors in Seattle Public Schools and Highline Public Schools to get a variety of youth chosen, culturally relevant items on the menu. In Seattle Public Schools, Nutrition Services made a commitment before the pandemic to offer a wider variety of culturally relevant items, including an expansion of the salad bar. In Highline Public Schools, youth won Somali spaghetti, chicken tortilla soup, jerk chicken, pho, banh mi, pozole, and more on the menu.

Youth-Designed Items on the Menu

FEEST students in Highline Public Schools carefully crafted new recipes and taste-tested them with students in the cafeteria. After proving that students liked these new youth-designed items, the Nutrition Services Director agreed to add our butternut squash curry, lentil stew, apple bread, blueberry salad dressing, and pickled carrots to the district-wide menu.