Tagged With "Resilient Georgia October"
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Introducing Resilient Georgia’s Trauma Informed Training Roadmap
Resilient Georgia, in partnership with Georgia State University Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, School of Social Work, Professional Excellence Program Child Welfare Training Collaborative, conducted a widespread trauma training inventory in March-April 2020 to begin to assess assets across the behavioral health continuum in Georgia. Resilient Georgia’s Education and Training Committee worked diligently with our partners to develop a Trauma Informed Training Road Map ...
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Eleventh Edition | A Preventive Approach: Mental Health is the Next Pandemic
Aligning Resources Across Georgia To Support Resiliency To Our Resilient Georgia Partners and Stakeholders: As we welcome a new month, we wanted to promote mindful self compassion . We hope each of you are able to treat yourselves with the same compassion you provide to others during these stressful times. Resilient Georgia continues to be here to support you and share as many helpful resources as possible. Next month we will host our first Resilient Georgia General Meeting of the new year.
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Twelfth Edition | A Preventive Approach: Mental Health is the Next Pandemic
Aligning Resources Across Georgia To Support Resiliency To Our Resilient Georgia Partners and Stakeholders: As the month of February rounds up, we wanted to share another resource outlining how you can celebrate Black History Month with Kids. To continue our theme of mindfulness, here is a great meditation honoring inclusiveness . Next month we will host our first Resilient Georgia General Meeting of the new year. Please mark your calendar for March 11th, from 11:00-12:30. We will be sending...
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Thirteenth Edition | A Preventive Approach: Mental Health is the Next Pandemic
Aligning Resources Across Georgia To Support Resiliency To Our Resilient Georgia Partners and Stakeholders: Please join us tomorrow on March 11th, from 11:00 am -12:30 pm at our first Resilient Georgia General Meeting in the new year to learn and engage in discussion around Early Childhood Mental Health (0-5 years). Watch this In Brief: Early Childhood Mental Health Video from the Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University for a quick introduction to the topic. We will have several...
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Resilient Georgia’s ACEs Prevention & Trauma-Informed Efforts Statewide Landscape Scan: Chapter Two
Chapter Two of Resilient Georgia's statewide landscape scan provides an overview of child and adolescent behavioral health services available across the state, and outlines some of our workforce and access issues in Georgia. It also highlights the regional work our regional grantee coalitions, as well as other local coalitions, faith-based efforts and community organizations are doing to prevent ACEs and increase trauma informed awareness in Georgia.
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Fourteenth Edition | A Preventive Approach: Mental Health is the Next Pandemic
Aligning Resources Across Georgia To Support Resiliency To Our Resilient Georgia Partners and Stakeholders: Many of us are reeling from recent news events. Here is a heart-warming video of a brother helping his sibling practice mindful breathing and reminding us all to take deep breaths to help ground ourselves. First we center, and then we do everything else. That said, we would like to take a moment to share this article about talking to the children in your life about racism. The end of...
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Last chance to apply for a scholarship for the Creating a Resilient Community Conference!
Apply for a Scholarship In this new video PJI Director, Rachel Allen shares some exciting information regarding what you can expect at the upcoming Conference! Register for the Conference Conference Overview: The Peace and Justice Institute at Valencia College, the Early Learning Coalition of Orange County, the Creating a Resilient Community Network and Title Sponsor, Orlando Health, are excited to invite you to register for the Third Annual Creating a Resilient Community (CRC): From Trauma...
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Fifteenth Edition | A Preventive Approach: Mental Health is the Next Pandemic
Aligning Resources Across Georgia To Support Resiliency To Our Resilient Georgia Partners and Stakeholders: We recognize that it has been a hard year filled with social isolation & upheaval, anxiety, stress and mental health struggles for many, and that it has hit some teens the hardest . Here is a free toolkit with 6 yoga and mindfulness tools for youth to help, and if you know a Georgia teen who'd like to make a difference in the mental health of their peers, ask them to check out the...
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Early Childhood Mental Health – Resilient Georgia General Meeting
The first few years of life provide the foundation for children's mental health and brain development. Resilient Georgia recently convened several Early Childhood Mental Health (0 to 5 years) experts from across the state to share exciting updates and leading practices at our quarterly General Meeting in March.
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Sixteenth Edition: Preventing ACEs | Healing Adversity | Promoting Resilience
Aligning Resources Across Georgia To Support Resiliency To Our Resilient Georgia Partners and Stakeholders: Happy Mental Health Awareness Month! To help celebrate, we hope you can join the Georgia Parent Support Network and Voices for Georgia's Children, in partnership with DBHDD, for a special, virtual edition of Children's Mental Health Awareness Day at the Capitol on May 6th (R egister here ). DECAL is celebrating children’s mental health by designating May 3 rd –7 th as Children’s Mental...
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Join the Resilient Georgia Conversation on Social Media
Resilient Georgia is dedicated to healing adversity and promoting resiliency in children and families. We do this through the prevention and early intervention of ACEs and by sharing best practices with our 500+ stakeholders and 80+ partners. As we wrap up Mental Health Awareness Month, we’d like to invite you to join the Resilient Georgia conversation on social media. Our Facebook and Instagram accounts are filled with ongoing content on children’s mental health at the intersection of...
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Seventeenth Edition: Preventing ACEs | Healing Adversity | Promoting Resilience
Aligning Resources Across Georgia To Support Resiliency To Our Resilient Georgia Partners and Stakeholders: Please mark your calendars for our upcoming Resilient Georgia General Meeting focused on Teen Mental Health on June 10th, from 11:00 am to 12:30 pm. We will have several experts share leading practices & exciting efforts underway to bolster teen mental health across the state. Please use this link to register, and access the meeting agenda and materials on our General Meeting...
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2011-2021—A decade of steady growth in ACEs and TI laws and resolutions in the states
In 2019 and 2020, dozens of states enacted nearly 60 laws and resolutions that reference adverse childhood experiences or trauma. In this post, there's an interactive map that shows them all.
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Eighteenth Edition: Preventing ACEs | Healing Adversity | Promoting Resilience
Aligning Resources Across Georgia To Support Resiliency To Our Resilient Georgia Partners and Stakeholders: Mark your calendars for our Lunch and Learn taking place July 21st from 12 to 12:45. We launched Resilient Georgia Lunch and Learn series this year to provide a place for our regional coalition partners, peers, and stakeholders to share opportunities for partnership across the state. Next month will feature Sewn Arts . Sewn Arts is a nonprofit organization working throughout Georgia...
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LGBTQ+ Youth: Risks and Resources from Resilient Georgia
LGBTQ+ youth are among the most vulnerable when it comes to mental health at any given point but may be especially so after this past year of turbulence and loss. National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) reports that youth identifying as lesbian, gay, or bisexual are twice as likely to experience symptoms of mental illness compared to their heterosexual peers while transgender and non-binary youth are at a four times greater risk. Further, these children often cannot even begin to address...
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A broken system leads Georgia parents to abandon their children in desperate bid to help them [centerforhealthjournalism.org]
By Rebecca Lindstrom, Center for Health Journalism, July 8, 2021 Trading custody for care. It’s a term that’s been around awhile, but unless you’re the one confronted with making such a decision, you probably don’t know much about it. It’s basically when parents decide to surrender their child to the state’s welfare agency, in belief the child will get access to better medical or behavioral health care. As a mom, I couldn’t understand why a parent would even consider it an option. But when...
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Nineteenth Edition: Preventing ACEs | Healing Adversity | Promoting Resilience
Aligning Resources Across Georgia To Support Resiliency To Our Resilient Georgia Partners and Stakeholders: Please mark your calendars for our Lunch and Learn taking place July 21st from 12 to 12:45. We launched the Resilient Georgia Lunch and Learn series this year to provide a place for our regional coalition partners, peers, and stakeholders to share opportunities for partnership across the state. This month will feature Sewn Arts . Sewn Arts is a nonprofit organization working throughout...
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Re: Nineteenth Edition: Preventing ACEs | Healing Adversity | Promoting Resilience
Thank you so much for posting this. It is amazing all that you all are doing. We need to talk, and will! Let me know when you have time one morning next week? Text if you wish! 404-408-9566 Thank you so much. What a terrific team you work on! csipp@pacesconnection.com
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Teen Mental Health - Resilient Georgia General Meeting
Resilient Georgia is excited to share information and resources from our June General Meeting on Teen Mental Health , where we brought together experts and advocates in the Georgia behavioral health space to discuss their work around adolescent well-being. Teenagers can be hard to decipher at times, but one point is clear: teens need large amounts of support to overcome the staggering odds of having mental illness. With rates of teen mental illness already higher than the adult population...
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StrongBrains Coaching: Using PACEs and Brain Science to Coach Kids for a Lifetime of Good Choices
How can brain science help a Pop Warner football team of 10-year-olds win the big game, and avoid depression when they're adults? Join us for the August edition of the Up2Us Sports Lunch and Learn Series and find out. The monthly lunch and learn session, usually exclusively for UP2US member coaches, is now open to the public on a first-come, first-served basis. Register today ! The session is Wednesday, August 11 at noon CST, and features the Rev. Dr. Clifford Barnett, Carey Sipp of PACEs...
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Resilient Georgia Resilient Georgia Twentieth Edition: Preventing ACEs | Healing Adversity | Promoting Resilience
Aligning Resources Across Georgia To Support Resiliency To Our Resilient Georgia Partners and Stakeholders: We are excited to announce our next Lunch and Learn, focused on Mindful Self-Compassion for Leaders, taking place on August 18th from 12-1PM EST. The Lunch and Learn, which can be accessed through this Zoom link , will be led by our Savannah Regional Grantee Coalition leads, Vira Salzburn. Leading Others through Mindful Self-Compassion is designed to help leaders discover new ways of...
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The Intersection of Behavioral Health and Art
Our July 2021 Lunch and Learn focused on the intersection of behavioral health and art (view recording here) . Sewn Arts joined us to share research, examples, and opportunities to utilize art, music, and other forms of creativity that aid prevention and recovery efforts. Sewn Arts is a nonprofit organization that works throughout Georgia to aid care providers and health & human service agencies incorporate evidence-based art interventions that improve individual and community health.
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Resilient Georgia Sector Highlight: Imagining Trauma-Informed Law Enforcement
After a year of heavy police scrutiny, resignations and burnout rates in police departments have risen exponentially. In addition to being a cultural response to notable inequities in policing, these changes may represent a mixture of pandemic-induced stress and mental health issues for officers such as PTSD, anxiety, and depression, as well as suicide risk. In some cases, officers - in this case a dispatcher - are able to navigate the high-risk scenarios they face with bravery and...
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Resilient Georgia is doing such great work in our state - thank you all!
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Resilient Georgia Twenty-first Edition: Preventing ACEs | Healing Adversity | Promoting Resilience
Aligning Resources Across Georgia To Support Resiliency To Our Resilient Georgia Partners and Stakeholders: Taking care of our mental health is just as important as taking care of our physical health. Fortunately many athletes have elevated this conversation in recent months . Please join us by registering for an intimate discussion about mental wellness, resilience, and perseverance with local Track and Field world class athlete and recent Olympian Kenny Selmon on October 28th at 11AM EST.
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Resilient Georgia Hosts Discussion with Olympian Kenny Selmon on Resilience & Becoming a World-Class Athlete
To celebrate its collective impact working to create an integrated system for behavioral health care in Georgia, Resilient Georgia is hosting Olympian Kenny Selmon, a decorated American track and field champion, and storyteller Chrishaunda Lee Perez for a virtual celebration Oct. 28, 2021 from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Since its inception in 2019, Resilient Georgia has built a statewide coalition of trauma-informed organizations by convening diverse private and public partners to build a...
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Resilient Georgia Makes Mental Wellness More Accessible in Georgia by Expanding to 12 Statewide Regions
Nonprofit now reaches more than half of all Georgia counties with diverse, robust and well-planned regional coalitions helping Georgia’s children and families through mental health “shadow pandemic.” Resilient Georgia , a statewide coalition of organizations building a more resilient, trauma-informed Georgia, now reaches more than half of all Georgia counties with 12 regional coalitions ensuring urban and rural communities statewide have access to behavioral health resources. Resilient...
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Resilient Georgia Sector Highlight: Supporting Caregivers in Georgia
For the month of September, we wanted to give attention to the joy and difficulty being a parent or caregiver in our world today. To read the full post and check out more content about resilience and mental health, follow this link: https://www.resilientga.org/ post/supporting-caregivers-in- georgia ABOUT US : Resilient Georgia is a statewide coalition of more than 100 partners and 600 stakeholders committed to building a stronger, more resilient Georgia. Through a network of public and...
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Resilient Georgia Twenty-second Edition: Preventing ACEs | Healing Adversity | Promoting Resilience
Aligning Resources Across Georgia To Support Resiliency To Our Resilient Georgia Partners and Stakeholders: Please join us along with storyteller Chrishaunda Lee Perez for our two-year anniversary virtual celebration an intimate discussion about mental wellness, resilience, and perseverance with Georgia native, World Class Track and Field Athlete, and 2021 Olympian Kenny Selmon on Thu, October 28th from 11 am to 12:30 pm ET. We are so proud of athletes across the board who are speaking up...
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Georgia Reads Book Club Presents: "What Happened to You?"
“What Happened to You? Conversations on Trauma, Resilience and Healing” by renowned brain and trauma expert Bruce D. Perry, MD, PhD and Oprah Winfrey - a 2021 must read! We are so excited to announce that Georgia’s Essentials for Childhood Initiative, in partnership with Gwinnett County Public Libraries, will be launching a Georgia Reads Book Club of “What Happened to You?”. Attend the kickoff event on November 15th at 7 pm EST to learn more about the book and how Georgia is working towards...
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Resilient Georgia Twenty-third Edition: Preventing ACEs, Healing Adversity, Promoting Resilience
Aligning Resources Across Georgia To Support Resiliency To Our Resilient Georgia Partners and Stakeholders: First, some announcements: We are incredibly grateful to everyone who attended Resilient Georgia's General Meeting on October 28th with special guests, U.S. Olympian and American Track & Field Champion Kenny Selmon and Storyteller Chrishaunda Lee Perez! Kenny Selmon knows how to overcome hurdles in the race of life. We encourage you to watch the interview if you have not already...
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Resilient Georgia Sector Highlight: Healthcare Providers
Our November sector highlight focused on supporting healthcare providers in Georgia. To learn about solutions and ways organizations are tackling healthcare burnout during this difficult time, check out the post here: https://www.resilientga.org/post/sector-highlight-healthcare-providers
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This is great! Thanks for posting, Cameron! I will share it out onto our PACEs Connection twitter account. We appreciate you!
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Register now for "Building the Movement with Coalitions", presented by the Campaign for Trauma-informed Policy and Practice, PACEs Connection, and the National Prevention Science Coalition to Improve Lives
Please register now at this link to reserve your spot. You’re invited to participate in Building the Movement with Coalitions, the first of eight remarkable workshops featured in the series, “ Building a National Movement to Prevent Trauma and Foster Resilience ”. The first half-day workshop will occur virtually on January 7th from 1-5pm ET/10am-2pm PT. It focuses on the history and future of the movement and building community-owned, trauma-informed, prevention-focused, and healing-centered...
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An Introduction to Mindful Self-Compassion
At Resilient Georgia, we're always looking for ways to equip our communities with upstream approaches to mental and behavioral health. Mindful Self-Compassion (MSC) is an accessible program designed to help people be gentler with themselves in the midst of hardship. For the full introduction to the program, a description of its evidence-based benefits, as well as a wealth of resources and trainings for MSC, check out this post from the Resilient Georgia website: ...
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Cobb Collaborative presents First Annual Resilient Cobb Summit [news.yahoo.com]
From Marietta Daily Journal, Photo: Unsplash, February 3, 2022 Community leaders from across metro Atlanta convened on Feb. 1 for the first annual Resilient Cobb Summit presented by Cobb Collaborative. This half-day event was held at the Cobb Chamber of Commerce and hosted by Cobb Community Foundation. Speakers from Resilient Georgia addressed the significant need to recognize trauma, identify issues stemming from Adverse Childhood Experiences and work to build resilience to foster better...
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Resilient Georgia Sector Highlight: Mental Health In the Workplace
Work burnout is not a new idea, but conversations around burnout have increased in recent years, and for good reason. To read about work burnout and how we can support resiliency in the workplace, check out our newest blog on the Resilient Georgia website.
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January Updates on Increasing Childhood Resilience through Addressing ACEs
At Resilient Georgia, we're committed to spreading relevant information and resources on child development and resiliency. To read our latest update on all things PACEs, check out our newest blog .
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Georgia Reads "What Happened to You?" and Parent Leadership Month
Since late 2021 and into 2022, the Georgia Essentials for Childhood Initiative has been encouraging parents, caregivers, professionals, all those who work with or around young people, and all those who may have experienced their own trauma to read the book "What Happened to You? Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing" , coauthored by Oprah Winfrey and Bruce D. Perry, MD, PhD. The inaugural Georgia Reads initiative was launched in November 2021 with a webinar hosted by the Georgia...
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Re: Georgia Reads "What Happened to You?" and Parent Leadership Month
This is terrific, Deborah. Thank you to you and all the many people who worked diligently to get out the word and the guides! The book “What Happened to You?” is a game changer. To read it “in community” would be a profound communion. Thanks for sharing how this was done, and for your willingness to show us how to do this wonderful win + win program elsewhere Peace! Carey
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March Updates on Increasing Childhood Resilience through Addressing ACEs
At Resilient Georgia, we're committed to spreading relevant information and resources on child development and resiliency. To read our latest update on all things PACEs, check out our newest blog .
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Supporting AAPI Mental Health
At Resilient Georgia, we want to do everything we can to promote the wellbeing of our Asian-American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) readers. Check out our newest blog that acknowledges the current state of AAPI mental health and the incredible organizations supporting AAPI individuals in Georgia.
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April Updates on Increasing Childhood Resilience through Addressing ACEs
At Resilient Georgia, we're committed to spreading relevant information and resources on child development and resiliency. To read our latest update on all things PACEs, check out our newest blog .
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Supporting the Mental Health of Refugees
Resilient Georgia is committed to addressing the mental health of Georgia's refugee population. Amidst the devastating war in Ukraine and the many ongoing global crises that continue to displace individuals from their homes, we want to do our best to support this population. To access news and resources relevant to refugee mental health, check out our newest blog .
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Register now! Dr. Bruce Perry to discuss historical trauma and help launch new "Connecting Communities One Book at a Time" book study with his best-seller, "What Happened to You?"
Please join us on June 28 from 1:30-3:00 p.m. ET for a virtual conversation with best-selling author Bruce Perry. Ingrid Cockhren , CEO of PACEs Connection; Mathew Portell , PACEs Connections’ director of communities, and Perry, a psychiatrist and neuroscientist, will engage in a conversation concerning historical trauma and Perry’s best-selling book " What Happened to You? Conversations on Trauma, Resilience and Healing, " which he co-authored with Oprah Winfrey. Please share this blog...
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A Nurse-Led, Well-Being Promotion Using the Community Resiliency Model, Atlanta, 2020–2021 [ajph.aphapublications.org]
By Ingrid M. Duva, Jordan R. Murphy, and Linda Grabbe, Photo: Unsplash, American Journal of Public Health, June 9, 2022 Abstract The wrath of COVID-19 includes a co-occurring global mental health pandemic, raising the urgency for our health care sector to implement strategies supporting public mental health. In Georgia, a successful nurse-led response to this crisis capitalized on statewide organizations’ existing efforts to bolster well-being and reduce trauma. Partnerships were formed and...
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What Happened to You? and What Happened to Me?
Last spring, I attended a virtual book discussion of Oprah Winfrey and Dr. Bruce Perry's book "What Happened to You?". It was while we (or at least I) were still pretty locked down with the pandemic. I was working from home, living alone, seeing family but only seeing friends and colleagues virtually. The event hosted by Dax Shephard and Kristin Bell inspired me to read the book. It also inspired me to bring the book to our Georgia communities. I knew that I was not the only person...
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Child and Family Behavioral Health Resources in Georgia
Health begins with mental health, and the United States is currently experiencing a mental health crisis. This problem has been highlighted by national and local leaders and elected officials. For example, on December 7th, 2021, the U.S. Surgeon General, Vivek H. Murthy, issued an advisory highlighting the mental health needs of young adults . Then earlier this year on February 1st the U.S. Congress held a hearing on the growing crisis of Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders . Looking...