Health Department Releases Fifth Video Focusing on Wellbeing

Health Department Releases Fifth Video Focusing on Wellbeing

Published on October 30, 2025

6 Pillars series designed to support youth emotional health

The Lincoln-Lancaster County Health Department and partners today released the fifth video "Mastery" in the "6 Pillars for Emotional Wellbeing - A Parent's Guide" series. The series is designed to help families build healthy rhythms and routines into everyday life that support youth emotional health.

"A wonderful part of being a kid is discovering what you enjoy and who can enjoy it with you. The pillar of Mastery is the process of learning and failing, risking and growing, and in the end, doing new things to enrich our lives. This is true at any age and especially important for the youth of our community," said Kerry Kernen, Health Director.

Tami Lewis-Ahrendt, Centerpointe CEO said, "Discomfort is also a sign that maybe you're learning something new, growing into something new or experiencing something new and that's why it's uncomfortable. Realizing this is a growth moment - something that's intentional for me. This is how I'm moving forward as a human being."

The "6 Pillars for Emotional Wellbeing" video series is a resource created by the community for the community. The 6 Pillars feature local and national health experts, partners and parents. The videos can be found at lincoln.ne.gov/6Pillars.

The series focuses on six elements that are core emotional wellbeing including:

• Sleep - Sleep is a skill and learning what makes it good is important to your emotional health.

• Physical Activity -The skill of physical activity can be driven by your passions and interests, but a lack of it will impede your ability to be emotionally healthy.

• Nutrition and Hydration - A lack of fuel can affect how you are able to cope with emotional challenges in every part of your day. Good fuel that includes hydration is a part of growing your emotional resiliency and is a part of what drives your emotional health.

• Relational Connectedness - It is possible to form a genuine connection to a peer, mentor, or guardian, in a short period of time.

• Mastery - When you master something that interests you, your emotional wellbeing grows. Mastery can be something as simple as word problems, or as complicated as chess, cello, or running.

• Quieting - Your emotional wellbeing is connected to your ability to quiet your mind through rhythms like mindfulness, spiritual practice, connecting with nature, and more. The practice of mindfulness or spiritual exercise is growing a set of skills as well as your personal identity.

The Department has released videos on sleep, physical activity, nutrition and hydration and relational connectedness. A new video follows each month through November 2025.

The video series produced in conjunction with LNKTV Health is one of the results of the 2022 Community Health Improvement Plan in which youth behavioral health was identified as a priority. The plan is an action-oriented process where the community determines a set of shared priorities and aligns efforts to make the greatest impact.

The Health Department worked in partnership with Bryan Health and CHI Health St. Elizabeth and numerous partners to better understand emotional wellbeing in children and how to provide information and resources that address a critical need of local families.

The Health Department and partners also released CredibleMind, another wellbeing resource. It's an online platform designed to support mental wellbeing and provides evidence-based mental health resources that can be personalized to fit your needs.

CredibleMind offers assessments and resources related to each of the 6 Pillars.

Visit myhealthymind.crediblemind.com. It's free, confidential and available 24/7.