People in Nelson County noticed kids seem more stressed than ever.

Part of the problem not enough places for kids to socialize.

So the community joined a national mental health project and a yellow flower is the key.

More on that in tonight's look at medical news.

The Yellow Tulip Project's goal nationally is to break the stigma of youth mental health to have a conversation ongoing about what is impacting our young people and how can we break that stigma if we don't talk about it, we can't address it if we don't bring awareness to it, we can't bring in programs that will specifically target those areas.

And so we wanted to start a conversation.

The family resource Youth Center coordinators that are in the schools, they did a lot with the youth, specifically during Yellow Tulip Week.

And so that was about two weeks ago.

And what they did was they would do little workshops on how to advocate for mental health.

They painted rocks if they could not do their yellow tulip Hope garden.

But a lot of community members were able to plant tulip bulbs in the ground.

We did them back in October November area.

There's over 20 Hope gardens right now.

Just one year that we were able to do it in Nelson County.

And those range from courthouses, jails, nonprofits and schools.

And that's really powerful to have that connection of community that are all focused on bettering mental health, especially for youth.

So the Yellow Tulip is the national symbol for hope.

And in that we want everyone to know that there is always hope.

There are always community based organizations, trusted adults who are ready to be there for our young people.

Each of those signs that you see at our Hope gardens when they were out in the spring, drive you to has a QR code that takes you to a local resource, website that has information about the Yellow Tulip Project and then local mental health resources in the community.

Youth have nothing to do here.

People who are young have nothing to do.

Yes, it's the wonderful Bourbon capital of the world.

But there's no movie theater anymore.

There's no roller rink.

There's nothing really geared towards kids.

And we know that that's going to impact mental health significantly.

And so this project couldn't have come at a better time.

The youth are involved right now.

They have been helping with planting the yellow tulips.

I've been involved with a variety of just workshops and activities, art projects, around the Yellow Tulip and having conversations around hope.

But our our future idea and hope is that they will be more engaged as youth leaders in the community having that conversation publicly with their peers.

They get to see that people do care and people do listen.

You know, kids in schools or kids that I serve as a therapist now and at the police department, hearing kids say, there's nothing for me to do and nobody cares.

Now they get to see, okay, this garden signifies youth, mental health, smashing the stigma for youth, mental health.

Just them hearing that narrative gives them that little bit of hope.

And then they can then go to their friends and say, hey, people are talking about us.

People are caring, and this is one way to do it.