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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

Lincoln Academy volunteers who planted tulips in conjunction with the Yellow Tulip Project on October 10, 2019. On October 10 Lincoln Academy student volunteers gathered in Veterans Memorial Park in Newcastle to plant more than 80 bulbs as part of the Yellow Tulip Project, which is a Maine-based non-profit program whose mission is to reduce

Symbols of happiness and hope were planted in Bangor – we’re talking about yellow tulips. The bulb planting ceremony is part of The Yellow Tulip Project. The message? Shining a light on suicide awareness, spreading hope, and smashing the stigma surrounding mental illness. Organizers say it’s very fitting on this World Mental Health Day. Sam

FORT KENT, Maine — Students and community members planted flowers on the front lawn of Fort Kent Community High School on Wednesday, Oct. 9, to raise awareness about mental illness. About 60 people participated in the Yellow Tulip Project event during which they planted hundreds of the sunshine-colored flowers in an effort to remind people

PORTLAND, Maine —The 4th annual Yellow Tulip Project was held at Congress Square Park on Portland Saturday, aiming to change the way people talk about mental illness. The founder of the event, Julia Hansen, brought the event to Portland after losing her two best friends to suicide. Now, the wellness event functions to bring the

The Yellow Tulip Project – founded locally by a mother and daughter – has 275 ambassadors in several countries. Students and mental health advocates gathered in Congress Square Park in Portland on Sunday to plant flowers and celebrate the international expansion of The Yellow Tulip Project, a locally founded nonprofit that seeks to “smash the