By Bethany Ao, The Philadelphia Inquirer, April 13, 2021
As a student at Central High School, Andre Pak felt like it wasn’t possible to talk honestly about his feelings and emotions with his peers in a supportive environment. So during his senior year, he joined Creative Resilient Youth (CRY), a collective of 10 teens who use art to address the gaps in mental health dialogues at schools in the Philadelphia area.
Last year, Pak, now a 20-year-old sophomore at Drexel University, completed a video project on mental health in the city’s Asian community because “it’s not really talked about.”
The group had planned an art exhibition for May, to coincide with Mental Health Awareness month, but it was canceled due to the pandemic so they quickly pivoted to another way of increasing visibility about teen mental health issues — podcasting.
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