LOUISVILLE, Ky. — A Louisville program that aims to help children impacted by gun violence has released a wellness journal.
Students at the University of Louisville's School of Medicine, that are also part of the Future Healers Program, co-authored the 'Future Healers Journey to Wellness Personal Journal.'
The program is the result of a partnership between UofL Health and Christopher 2X Game Changers.
Christopher 2X said they released it to celebrate the program's third anniversary.
Future Healers helps kids between the ages of 4-13 by teaching them about the medical field and the opportunities it offers.
The journal is 100-pages long and filled with learning activities to teach kids all about health and wellness 2X said.
"We're trying to help them through what they have been through, but to say that we are 100% preventing something we cannot say fully, so we want to equip them with the tools necessary to overcome those things if, hopefully not, they were presented with that type of circumstance," medical student Orion Rushin said.
"It was really pulling at your inner child like, if I was young, if I was impressionable, what would I want to see, what would make this really, you know, help me gravitate to this? So the colors the schemes of it even the fonts all of that stuff was very fun to put together."
Since its inception, the program has expanded outside of Louisville and into the Vanderbilt University Medical Center and School of Medicine in Nashville, Tennessee.