Marshfield Medical Center-Park Falls collaborated with the Friends of Park Falls Public Library to offer Mindfulness Kits for tweens and teens. This new program in Price County helps to make mental health resources available for youth and teens. These kits provide a starting point to have a conversation about mental health, to improve social and emotional development, and decrease suicide for youth in crisis.
 
“Being a teenager has always been rough,” said Youth Services Librarian Cindy Koller. “Our tweens and teens are under immense emotional pressure in this age of social media, cancel culture, and the 24-hour cycle of news. While we have access to more information than at any time in history, we do not always have access to health care and the resources that are needed to help navigate and name the emotions that go with maturing into a young adult. I hope these kits can be a starting point, a conversation starter, or even a lifesaver for a teen or family in crisis.”
 
The kits contain resources related to healthy relationships, bullying, self-esteem, anxiety, grief, coming out, and finding life direction.