Winthrop’s Mind & Movement Day: Youth, Family & Ocean Wellness Festival is a free, beach-based wellness event designed to promote physical activity, emotional wellbeing, and positive youth development through intentional engagement with Winthrop’s shoreline. Grounded in CASA’s trauma-informed, youth-centered approach, the event leverages the “Blue Mind” concept, the scientifically supported calming and restorative benefits of time spent near water, to support healthy movement, emotional regulation, and meaningful connection in a public coastal space.

Designed as a scalable and repeatable model, Winthrop’s Mind & Movement Day expands access to the shoreline, strengthens community partnerships, and supports sustained youth engagement with Winthrop’s beaches as positive, inclusive public spaces.

Organized by Better Beaches partner Boston CASA.