PORT ANGELES — Artwork by Franklin Elementary School fifth-graders will become a mural in the Peninsula Community Mental Health Center.
After hearing a presentation on mental health Friday, students used fabric markers to draw images of inner strength.
The images will be made into a fabric wall-hanging that will be a permanent art installation at the center at 118 E. Eighth St. in Port Angeles, said Kristin Warner, a child mental health specialist and art therapist with the center.
She and Rachel Hardies, a child mental health specialist, presented the program “Strengths to Draw on for Mental Health” in recognition of National Children’s Mental Health Awareness Day earlier in the week.
During the week, more than 1,000 communities in the nation participated in events designed to raise awareness of child mental health, Warner said.
For more information about the mental health center, visit www.pcmhc.org.
