Library Research Partnership & Projects

The Youth Digital Mental Health Lab has partnered with teens and library workers from the Oak Park Public Library since 2019, which serves west Chicago and west suburbs of Chicago, to iteratively co-design digital mental health tools to help youth effectively manage their anxiety. Through collaborations with the Lab for Scalable Mental Health at Northwestern University and from gathering mixed-methods feedback from teens, library workers, and mental health clinicians, we co-adapted an evidence-based intervention package that is currently being pilot tested. Next steps will be expanding this program to other teen service programs at public libraries throughout the United States.