Youth + Families

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“Color Cloud: Let's Pay Attention” by Jessica Poundstone

Audiovisual article: Empathy

Elmo explores how it’s OK to not be OK.

Young artist profiles: South Africa

Making art for wellbeing in a South African township

What's something you do to help with challenging feelings? 

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Somatic: five things

Checking in with our senses

Somatic: dancing

Rhett prefers to dance for himself, when no one’s watching

Somatic: inner strength

Control when it counts

Somatic: thankful

Martin lists some of the many things he’s thankful for

Somatic: water

Finding peace like a floating leaf on a river

Somatic: keep playing

In defense of not letting go of what we love

A boy and his dog: meet Stella

A contemplation about true love

Young artist profiles: Julian

Julian plays us his first original song, Waves in Rivers

Stronger together

Peer-to-peer support sessions

Somatic: cherry blossoms

Remember something beautiful

Somatic: still water

Churned up and tossed about, like a shaken jar of water

Why empathy in Children’s Media matters

The way you tell your story can make all the difference

Somatic mindfulness: Skate

Rolling through life’s learning curves with Melonie

VR for kids’ pain

When your body’s own cells betray you—and art helps you heal

Messy, honest, true

The rise of realness online

Slowing down

to win the race

Somatic: fly

Gliding over the hills and meadows of Central Park