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Abstract

Four students at Marquette University have launched a business called Confidence that delivers self‐care boxes to college students across the United States, ABC News reported May 8. Mae Haggerty and her three business partners have had their own experiences with mental health, which led them to identify the need for college students to practice more self‐care. The four co‐founders handpick the items that go in the Confidence boxes each month. They are usually items that have personally helped them in the past. A Confidence box earlier this year, for example, included a “Letter to My Future Self” journal and pen, tea, chocolate, rollerball eucalyptus oil, a worry stone, hand warmers and lip balm. Haggerty said she and her co‐founders want to use the self‐care boxes as a way to make students recognize mental health as something they need to address daily.