Health Department Releases Final Video Focusing on Wellbeing
Published on December 02, 2025
6 Pillars series designed to support youth emotional health
The Lincoln-Lancaster County Health Department and partners today released the sixth and final video “Quieting” 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.
“In today’s world, constant noise and distraction can make it challenging for children and parents to find moments of calm. That’s why the pillar, Quieting, is so important. It gives us the space to process emotions, respond to challenges and stay grounded,” said Kerry Kernen, Health Director. “In fact, the other five pillars are built on our ability to pause, reflect, and reset our emotional wellbeing. Together, all the pillars give our community a simple, practical way to build healthier, more connected lives.”
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.
“You can take a baby step here and pick one of the pillars and say, ‘This is what I’m going to work on this week.’ It doesn’t have to be an overwhelming commitment to changing all the different patterns that are happening in the family. Take one small step and be really proud of the step that you’ve taken,” said Dr. Luke Bossard, a licensed clinical psychologist with Behavioral Pediatric and Family Therapy, LLC.
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, including Dr. Bossard who provided the 6 Pillars framework, 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.