b'OCEAN MINDRachel Parker and participant(Photo: Meredith OShea)In early 2020, before the music stopped on the world,our programs and surf clubs, we went straight online. Ocean Mind Founder and CEO Rachael Parker had bigThere was no time to research or work through ways to plans. Her social enterprise had been going from strengthmake sure our usual work was safe or what our program to strength, and she and her team were preparing fordesigns might look like to make sure we could minimise a major expansion from supporting young people inthe risk of infections for the young people, but also all Victorias Surf Coast region to becoming a nationalof the volunteers as well. We had to pivot what we did enterprise.to being online and make sure the kids that we were supporting were still getting support.More immediately, Ocean Mind was in final preparationsIn a normal world, Ocean Mind works with young people for an exciting collaboration with surfboard shapers andthrough the medium of surfing. Since 2016, it has been a artists to create artworks on surf boards that would bepowerful provider of mental health and emotional support displayed during the Bells Beach leg of the World Surfingfor vulnerable kids from the Greater Geelong region League, at Easter, which was planned as a major fundincluding Bellarine Peninsula and Surf Coast Shire, by raiser for the organisation. offering the freedom of the ocean, matched with real-time And then, hello, Covid-19. surfing and life support. That all stopped pretty quickly in March, RachaelIn this non-normal world, Rachael said that a major reflected. When Stage 3 restrictions hit, we stoppedfactor in Ocean Mind surviving the pandemic landscape 10NEWSBOYS FOUNDATION ANNUAL REPORT 2020'