Mood Board
Mood board design with a buzzer you can press to seek help for your mood. It includes also lights, notebook, cards:
Caring about: A light-up board provides a space for supporting mental health and expressing feelings: “kids can express their mental health to just so if they feel alone”; “just in case people don’t have any friends or anyone to talk to they can just write it down on the board.”
Taking care: Kids invisible and struggling: “In school and outside of school, kids don’t feel they get enough attention. That leads them to do things that aren’t very good. And if they don’t get enough attention, it pretty much lowers your self -esteem and a challenge.”
Caregiving: “To help with mental distress pretty much. Because a lot of people want to express their feelings, but they don’t want to say it out loud. And it’s just better for them to write it down and say it out loud; “It’s also therapeutic to write; “the cards are just a simple definition of how they feel. And if they want to go into more detail, that’s what the book is for.”
Nested care: Mood boards can be placed in various locations: “if people get overwhelmed in public places, and they get home and they just need to reorganize themselves.
Rainbow Bin
A lights up colorful box stores “grab and go” essentials such as snacks and medicine that can be easily accessed:
Caring about: “The rainbow bin helps with that a lot because it shows kindness and how it can help you with different things like your medicine or your clothes, or different important stuff like that.”
Taking care: Box for storing essentials and providing soft light for nighttime without disturbing other: “For at night to get snacks while other people in their house are sleeping. And they don’t want to open the lights.”
Caregiving: Multi- purpose box includes different sections/cells, colorful, and lights: Sections: “Inside we have different sections where you can put and stash different stuff.”
Nested care: The bin expanded in purpose from initially addressing youths’ hunger to including other essential items that mattered in everyday living and well-being. The bin could hold in different settings such as classroom, home and outdoor (picnic).
