May is Mental Health Awareness Month and the Atchison County Health Department in Tarkio is planning to observe the occasion with a Stress Less Fest Thursday, May 26, from 6:00 to 7:00 p.m. The Atchison County Health Department is located at 421 Main Street, Tarkio.

You and your kids will have the opportunity to do yoga and explore some fun and soothing sensory bins.

These activities will help you and your children learn how to reduce stress and promote positive mental health. Everyone will make a stress ball to take home and parents will also receive a self-care kit.

This free Group Connection is being held by easterseals Midwest and Atchison County Public Health. For more information, contact Julie Livengood at 660-736-4121 or Katie McCown at 816-420-7595.

Group Connections are funded in part by the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, Office of Childhood, Promise 1000, and the Children’s Trust Fund of Missouri. This project is also funded in part by the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services Maternal Child Health Contract # DH220051049, and is supported by the Health Resources Services Administration (HRSA) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) under grant #04MC40144, Maternal and Child Health Services for $12,299,305, of which none is from non-governmental sources.