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May is Mental Health Awareness Month, and a new exhibit at the Worcester Regional Airport is sparking conversation by highlighting local students.

Yellow tulips are brightening up City Hall and the Worcester police station as part of a nationwide push to raise awareness about mental health and substance abuse issues.

And health care providers say they are seeing more children under the age of 10 thinking about or attempting suicide. Five years ago, if a child younger than 13 arrived at Maine Medical Center for treatment following a suicide attempt, it was rare and notable. It’s no longer rare. “We’re seeing more of them and

PORTLAND (WGME) — As students get ready to go back to school, the Yellow Tulip Project is making sure they know they’re not alone during these difficult times. The group worked with UNUM to host a packing party Wednesday to mail back-to-school care kits to students across the world. Pandemic changes how Maine teachers are

“Our immediate goal five years ago is the same today—remind people they are not alone, that there is help and hope out there, it’s OK to not be OK, and that suicide should never be an option,” says Julia Hansen, Founder of The Yellow Tulip Project (YTP)–a nonprofit she cofounded with her mother Suzanne Fox,

WHITINSVILLE – At its first in-person event in more than a year, ValleyCAST brought together inspirational music, insightful and impactful speeches and a beautiful flower garden to spread seeds and messages of hope to commemorate the start of Mental Health Awareness Month. In collaboration with the Yellow Tulip Project, ValleyCAST’s first-ever Hope Day was held

The rise in mental health illness in the U.S. is staggering. With one in five American adults experiencing mental illness, Covid-19 has only exasperated the crisis. Federal hotline emotional distress calls this April saw a 1000 percent spike compared with the same time last year.

A splash of new color, symbolizing hope, has appeared in front of Rutland High School through the efforts of the members of the school’s Umatter at Rutland High School club and the Yellow Tulip Project. In October, dozens of high school students helped plant the tulips, and now they have bloomed around the sign in

“Mental health knows no age, gender, sexuality … some people feel it and don’t even know they are feeling it because it isn’t talked about. It is important to talk about it because it can build and build and build until there is a break. Opening up a conversation from the beginning helps it not