Free Community Wellness Program at Rahway Recreation Center
The KOP Your Story, Your Power Experience™ launches July 11 in partnership with the City of Rahway
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RAHWAY, NJ — June 13, 2026 — Registration is now open for the KOP Your Story, Your Power Experience™ — a free community wellness program launching this summer at the Rahway Recreation Center in partnership with Mayor Raymond A. Giacobbe and the City of Rahway.
The program runs four Saturday mornings from 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM — July 11, July 25, August 8, and August 22 — and is open to adults and teenagers ages 13 and up throughout Union County and surrounding communities. Families are welcome. The facility is fully wheelchair accessible.
See flyer to register! Space is limited.
July is Bebe Moore Campbell National Minority Mental Health Awareness Month — the nationally recognized observance honoring mental health equity in communities of color. Rahway’s partnership with KOP places the city at the center of that conversation this summer.
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The KOP Your Story, Your Power Experience™ uses the power of storytelling to help participants understand how the stories they carry shape their identity and their choices — in a non-clinical, culturally grounded, judgment-free community setting. No personal disclosure required. Come as you are.
Participants receive a personal KOP “My Power Guide”workbook and an autographed copy of The Wrong Therapist: Black Not Broken — the shared learning text by program founder Kashinda T. Marché.
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