December 2025
Dear Friends,
The Good Wolf Project is founded on the belief that we can harness our brain’s highest cognitive capabilities, coupled with respect, justice, love, and compassion, to achieve personal well-being, healthy families and communities, and a promising future for our children and their children.
We’ve now shown we can do this!
Generous support from many has allowed us to make a fundamental, significant impact on the lives of people in our communities, young and old alike. And in 2025, we touched more lives than ever before!
We’ve shown that knowledge is power – that learning important insights from brain science and acquiring the related life skills of self-governance, value-based decision-making, and prosocial agency can transform people’s lives.
With your help in scaling up our work, we will be able to take The Good Wolf Project’s message of hope, empowerment, and thriving to more and more people.
In the past year, Good Wolf’s senior citizen program, Thriving While Aging, continued its work at senior citizen centers. Throughout Westchester County, enthusiastic senior participants reported a better understanding of themselves and each other, decreased stress and anxiety, enhanced engagement with family and friends, and better decision-making in critical areas of their lives.
And Good Wolf’s Wellness Wednesdays program for adolescent students at New Rochelle High School conducted a follow-up “Alumni Program,” demonstrating a sustained, fundamental, and significant impact on young people’s lives.
Students participating in Good Wolf’s Wellness Wednesdays program learn empowering insights from brain science about their feelings and emotions, and engage in mindfulness-based social-emotional learning and life skills development. The results are transformational.
Sarah (name changed for privacy), a high school senior, put it this way:
“Wellness Wednesdays taught me that thinking first is a big part of decision-making. Sometimes, people do things and they don’t think. But thinking before you act can change the whole trajectory of your life.”
When Sarah entered the Wellness Wednesdays program, her graduation was in doubt. But through her Good Wolf-inspired personal growth, she did graduate and is now in college! Other students reported similar, profoundly positive experiences.
School leaders were inspired by the transformational growth they saw. Nate Adams, New Rochelle Schools Director of My Brother’s Keeper/My Sister’s Keeper programs, put it this way:
“Good Wolf’s Wellness Wednesdays is greater than just a program.
It’s a gift that we have to keep on giving!”
These outcomes have created significant additional opportunities.
High School Principal Dr. Dagoberto Artiles and Superintendent Dr. Corey Reynolds now want to bring Good Wolf’s empowering curriculum to all New Rochelle High School students within the next 4 to 5 years, starting with several 9th-grade classes in 2026. And they have agreed to rigorous outcome analyses as a step toward the Good Wolf program becoming a replicable model, bringing these impacts on well-being and life pathways to youth across the nation, and even globally.
Good Wolf’s approach changes the trajectory of young lives, potentially making a lifetime of difference. We believe that changing the lives of young citizens and future parents will create healthier families and communities, with positive impacts that extend even to future generations.
Your support can make all this a reality. Your gift will bring hope and empowerment to young lives and future generations. Here’s what’s planned or underway in Good Wolf 2.0 for 2026:
- Expanding Good Wolf’s high school program to the first classes of 9th-grade students,
- Launching the first Good Wolf program for young adults facing incarceration, through the “Youth Opportunity Part” of the New Rochelle Criminal Court,
- Extending Good Wolf’s work to criminal justice system-involved youth and families in collaboration with the Westchester County Department of Probation,
- Recruiting a curriculum specialist and additional teaching team to scale up our programs, and
- Recruiting a deputy director to strengthen program support infrastructure and securing a physical location for staff, the Good Wolf Academy, and community resources,
Other opportunities abound. We are in discussions with other courts and district attorneys’ offices about engaging in their young adult diversion programs, and with top leadership in the New York State Department of Corrections about bringing Good Wolf to incarcerated individuals.
This is an exciting moment of opportunity. Your financial partnership is more important than ever to help us take this empowering, life-changing work where it's needed.
Please support Good Wolf 2.0 so that we can touch more lives with this powerful work!
Wishing you a healthy, safe, and joyous holiday season!
With continuing gratitude,