Hello My name is Jessica Knowles, I am 17 from wellington, I currently study at Kapiti College, I am responsible, reliable, humble and respectful. I love being outdoors and hanging out with my friends and family and playing with my two cats, I also love to bake and dance, also preforming in my schools productions and also be apart of GirlGuiding New Zealand. I want to join Rito because I want to help other kids around New Zealand who deal with mental health like myself. I want them to have a better time at school, this meaning that I am wanting schools  to have better better services available for students to use counsellors in all schools and not just Colleges. I have seen how much mental health is dragging down the young people in New Zealand and I want to be able to help them see who they can talk to so they don't have to just bottle up their feelings and feel like they can't talk to anyone about it (trust me its really hard for people to not feel like you can talk to anyone as I have been there) when really they haven't been shown who they can talk to about whats going on for them in their lives. This has hit me hard as I know first hand how hard it is to deal with mental health at school. Even though I am going into my last year of college next year I want to be able to help other children around New Zealand get the help that I never got till college, I never knew that schools could have service's in schools like counsellors until my teacher told me about it. This is why I want to be able to get more services in all schools through primary to college.