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put them into the youtube comment section. we part of today's program. so although we are focusing on team gals in the united states, teen suicide, and, and teens trying to commit suicide is a global phenomena. for instance, this is michelle. she works for an organization that spreads mental health awareness and also health suicide prevention have listened to michelle. i think what makes young people within my community specifically kenya, more susceptible to suicide, is the lack of support when it comes to mental home in the community. mental health is to stigmatize mckenna community, so it makes it hard. we are going to things people who are bottling suicidal, thoughts to actually seek help people who are back if they catch it before. does it become? and it's more home when for some would be it would get your order to commit suicide because it makes it generally difficult to seek help. oh, we have help in schafer. 3 wonderful gas hallow,

jessica g la and jonathan. so nice to see you, jessica. please say hello to an international audience, explaining who you are, what you do. thank you. thanks for having me. my name is jessica taylor. i am a licensed professional counselor and i am a partner and owner of a private practice in springfield, virginia, called crescent counseling center, and we serve the dc metro area. and for the majority of the pandemic, i was the director of a community mental health agency. and typically the population that we serve are low income with limited resources and significantly increased need during the pandemic. so i've kind of seen both sides of it cycle to have you. hello g. introduce yourself to the stream. williams. tell them who you are and what days? yes, thank you so much for having me. hi, my name is marco ramos, i'm currently a student at the university of central florida. the outside of being a student. i'm a mental health advocate at the university level and national level with active

mind, which is one of the largest mental health organizations. specifically for high school and college students. so i'm a universe city, i am the chapter president, and i also serve as one of the members on the national student advisory committee. thank you for taking time prestige. you go to your play. thank you, and hello, jonathan, welcome to the stream. introduce yourself to international audience. yes, thank you so much. my name is jonathan singer. i'm the president of the american association of suicide. ology. i'm also the founder and host of the 1st podcast for social workers, social work podcast, also an associate professor of social work at loyola university and my pronouns are he hits. all right, so good to have all of you. i'm going to put this question to all of you, but i want to start with jessica jessica. why we particularly concerned about teen gals in the united states right now? what's your theory? well, i think 1st and foremost, i mean there is, there are a lot of factors, puberty being one of them and you know, he, males and females developmentally they grow developmentally and emotionally,

at different paces. but typically speaking, and jonathan, i know that you're the research guru, but my understanding emails in general are more susceptible to developing invite in depression. and the way that it's exhibited is just different than it is with younger males. but i think at the end of the day it comes down to just a lack of social connectedness. i think that's one of the biggest reasons. i mean, there are a lot of protective factors that would kind of increase the likelihood of stability, which would include education education, like i said, connectedness. access to a support system. and none of those things have an easy x, easily accessible during that time. so people that don't have basic, you know, life skills in terms of how to communicate emotionally or even understand their feelings. i think that especially teen girls have been at a loss. jonathan, go ahead. yeah, so i think that there are some developmental differences. i think that one of the things it's challenging about understanding suicide risk is that we oftentimes

think about it as an individual issue when it's very much a structural or a societal issue. it's a community issue. so just sort of thinking gender binary. there might be some differences in expression of distress, but really what we have is, is kids who are experiencing a sense that this might not be a world we're living in, that maybe we're in a society, the values, some lives more than others. and the question is, how do they express it? where do they get resources they can experience and culturally meaningful ways. and we know that adolescent females attempt suicide about 3 times as often as males and males die by suicide about 3 times as often as females. and the reason has to do with leaf ality of methods through the us so much closer to the address that we're talking about than either of gas. and i might be pointing that out. so i'm just wondering how you tap into that experience when you heard about the sick as

a teen girls going up the attempts of suicide in the past year. what was your takeaway? did that resonate with you have for me, i think it resonates a lot. it's not necessarily a surprising statistic, it's something that has a trend of increasing over time, but especially as someone who identifies both as female, but also as non binary. and with my own personal struggles of anxiety, i've definitely been in the same spot where it's the sense of social isolation and the constant political infrastructure that we currently have in place. that doesn't help the support of those greatly. i'm still in communication with high school friends and who are going through the same type of issues and they are female youth . and it's really hard to describe in the sense that you're only, but you're not the only one experiencing that problem. you're aware that there are

others like you who are going through the same thing, but you don't know what's the best way to connect to reach out to you. i want to play the jets. jessica. you go 1st and auto 2nd. go ahead. yeah, i was going to say, gee, like, and i completely agree in terms of the importance of connection and i think i saw something, you know, i think it was on your site that said 67 percent of people who are need would typically talk to a friend and i think the pandemic has removed that easy access to be able to just simply connect with people. and i also think all of this emotional intensity is exacerbated by, you know, a political climate and the racial uprising. and i think the good news is a lot of more, a lot of the younger generation they care and they notice, but they don't have the outlet to express it appropriately or make sense of it. so there's really no way to grieve or connect a couple of vulnerable groups include communities of color, and also l t p t q i a plus groups as well. we all sy, l g

b t q community to talk about this. gina, would you mind listening to what they have to say and then immediately responding of the back of the video? here we got one of the things that i think is really important to keep in mind is how important that way acceptance is for the well being and mental health algebra 2 to you. i think one important thing for folks to keep in mind is that just having one adult in your life who is accepting of your algebra 2 to identity, helped reduce the risk of suicide ality by 40 percent for algebra, 2 youth, queer trans people, particularly if we have other experiences like poverty, racism, disability and song experience unstable housing, sometimes you can to homelessness. or this combined with discrimination and violence, brings mental health struggles. and where services exist to help out with. for example, homelessness or mental health service providers on always when equipped to deal with the realities of queer and trans experience. so education is definitely

a part of the solution. and so is meeting the emotional needs of the community itself. i me a lot, especially when it comes down to just having that one that don't to accept you are and you don't necessarily have to agree with the same types of morals that i have or have the same types of believe i know, especially when it comes to my parents, i love them that i'm very grateful that we, they're able to become accepting of who i was, but it wasn't an easy process. it was definitely more difficult at the start for them to accept what my beliefs are, especially when they came down to my identity. and at the larger scale, it becomes a challenge of not just trying to emphasize what does it mean to accept those around you for who they are. but just making sure not to criticize that because they all have the form biases and believes that we something to want to acknowledge

. and they can even come down to just being i guess, in a way told that were too sensitive to sensitive to others had been made. but we are sensitive because this is what's going to be pushed forward into another generation . and we don't know much that then what is the solution then? jonathan and jesse help to understand where the vulnerable groups are. because if you understand where the wonderful groups are, you can be on alert for them. so jonathan, you start, i just mentioned l t b t b q i a plus teens. that's one area. another areas that you know of 15 suicide attempts will be watch. well, so when we look at the research, we know that even though numerically there are more white youth in the united states who are reporting thoughts of suicide, suicide attempts. when you look at the percentages within the groups,

what we see is that we have higher percentages of high school students who are black and hispanic reporting suicide attempts and suicide attempts with medical attention. and that's, that's really what the cdc report is talking about. it's, it's the suspected suicide attempts that showed up at emergency departments and, and over time you have these, these percentages going up and down. and so it's not linear, but what we see as a pattern is that amongst black youth spent specifically black females. there is been over 180 percent increase in suicide attempts over the last 25 years. and this is something that we really need to focus on, which wasn't addressed in the most recent cdc report. they didn't break down the data by race or ethnicity, or geography or sexual orientation or gender identity. and so it's hard to make

sense of what these numbers mean, but they are really important data points for us to be able to make decisions on both at the clinical as well as the programmatic and policy level. this research is it backed up when your your case experience. jessica, are you seeing this in, in your cases as to who are the most vulnerable? yeah, i mean, and it's actually interesting because when i was originally approached to be a part of the show, i was literally in the middle of setting up a hospitalization for a client, a teen adolescent female. and one of the biggest issues related to that were, you know, generally speaking language barriers. i think that 1st and foremost, i think that finding resources when you don't have a voice to advocate or a community that understands. i think that ended of itself, its 1st understanding where can i find the resources and then number 2,

how do i communicate my needs? i was finding that when i was in the community, the community health agent and see a lot of the, you know, meals and supports that are typically provided by the school. parents were scrambling either they didn't have transportation to find where can i go get this food? you know, some of the schools weren't allowing people to be outside of the school. so i think people were really, really scrambling. and i think that also from the top down it's, you know, the oxygen math theory, you've got to take care of yourself before you take care of someone else. but parents were having a hard time taking care of themselves. so how are they going to be able to appropriately support their teams? i would love to share a video from active minds and not the organization. the dealer is part of. it is focused on some young people talking about the impact of the pandemic. it's a beautiful video, have a look, have a lesson these are humans more specifically young humans. we

believe their story matters. so during this global pandemic, we want to stop in and ask, what has this been like for you? is really sucky. it's definitely i can't complain. yeah, i've got i really stuck a lot. i missed out on my whole tennessee isn't was that's not that's not too bad. i used to, you know, have a bunch people come over and he would drink hot chocolate and watch netflix together this year. we had jazz band for the 1st time in a long time. and so adam is performing that for a concert. oh, oh, i missed hugging my friends. oh, now crying fine, i definitely want to go see that jasmine. okay. we have so many questions for you. i'm just going to bounce around, put the different questions from youtube to you. very swift answer so we can get more questions. and if that's possible, this isn't eerie. i'm going to get this one to you. how much influence the friends

and families have on teen girls and mental illness or suicidal thoughts? what do you think gita? i think that friends and family are usually the immediate people that are there for the female youth, particularly when you're not being supportive. and they're the 1st people that you turn to, and that person can easily feel isolated, even if you could be more than just the hand reach away from them. so they're very impactful in terms of being that 1st line of defense that's needed. this one is for you jessica. this is from colleen ponds. thanks colina for your question. there are no support systems in place. many communities have gone on activities for youngsters for our children. jessica is a generalization. do you see that happy see not yeah, i have, i wouldn't say there are none, but i think that it, it really just depends on number one, the community. but number 2,

i think it's safety 1st, and i think that parents, i'm and i'm remembering so many parents it's, you know, having to decide between, you know, do i go to work and make money for my family so that we can continue to survive or do i stay home to make sure that my kids are supervised and that they're logging onto their, you know, virtual learning appropriately. so i think everyone, everyone capacity was lower and the expectations of the world were a lot higher without a spray of reference and how to do that. so i think that as a, as a result, people were doing the best they could with what they have. but at the end of the day, natural social support, just having an outlet, you know, to be able to connect socialize, a lot of that wasn't there. and then by the time it happened, i think a lot of teams have lost motivation or interest or having the effort even do something more than just zoning out or isolating. felt like really, really, really hard for them. does i have the question for you? is this is from s p l pura who is watching on youtube right now. how can we recover

someone who has suicidal thoughts? how do you bring down the right? well, so those are 2 different questions. one, bringing down the rate means that we have to address some of the basic questions about why is it that somebody would not want to live in this world? and there are many different reasons why kids might be suicidal. it could have to do with identity bullying academic failure. but there are also issues around societal structures that we've mentioned a couple of times. but specifically, i'll say that if, if you're in a place that doesn't value who you are and what you want to contribute to society, it can be easier to think this is not a place worth living in. now in terms of somebody who is actively suicidal, they're one of the best things that you can do is to listen to them and help them feel heard and acknowledge that what they're going through is something worth

listening to. and to have that experience, do you mind me giving you one more question because this one was a really important one. just i was listening to you about understanding listing challenges with understanding if you have an l g p t q i a plus background. how do your friends and family understand that if you listen to us? so this is what justin says for someone who is not as aware of how much of an issue this is. how would you say it's best to educate friends and family on these issues? what would you do to to educate personal perspective? one thing i do is trying to make sure that i'm not scared to tell them when something bothers me, when something in a way triggers me. because i want to make sure that they're aware and they understand where i'm coming from and let them process it. and then from the friends and family perspective, something that we always practice,

especially inactive mind, is to practice the values and validating appreciating and referring. and when you try to, you don't have to please yourself in there. you just have to listen. just as was mentioned before, and appreciate that they're choosing to be the corner bull with you to begin with. because it's not something that can be easily conveyed from the start. and then when referencing comes, just being able to teachers help different techniques on. for example, if someone's in that place of thought where they're considering attempting suicide, what are things that you can do to help? can you refer them to grounding techniques, coping techniques? can you help them just remember to breathe? they walk the stuff that we can incorporate from our daily habits that can help someone in need because you've been a great resource for our international audience watching right now, i'm going to bring in a few more and then ask you what other resources might be available for people, this is diana child, she is executive director of letters to strangers. that's an international organization that helps with mental health treatment of youngsters from 13 all the

way up to 24 years old. this is what she told us about, help and resources have a listen. it's important to remember that we're not the knight in shining armor. here we are meant to walk alongside them as they navigate and find that journey for themselves to heal the way they need it to. and so that means instead of assuming we know what's right for them all the time, talk to them, listen to them, be there alongside them to make things easier, you know, go to the pharmacy, to pick a medication together, set by them, or even call the doctors to make appointments for them, but the point being to be there in a supportive manner, not in an overwhelming manner where we believe we know everything that needs to be done to solve the issue. because at the end of the day we are not them. and to extend the empathy is most important of all jessica, one of the experience of i had when i spoken to friends and family who had lost a teen to suicide, is that they couldn't always tell how deep and how problematic their

challenges were. and they're going to be people who are watching will say, how do we know what we know if a youngster was struggling? jessica? well, i think that 1st of all, a lot of the, a lot of the symptoms that teens when they're experiencing them, it may be exhibited in a different behavior such as, you know, for anxiety and depression, you can come across as irritability. and i think a lot of times parents, i do a lot of work with parents in terms of let separate the behavior from the symptom. and i think that oftentimes i think that parents have to be really, really intentional, to kind of sit down and do a check in. because i think that we just get caught up in the lather, rinse routine of everyday life. and we just accept that. oh, she's not getting out of bed, she's not following directions. she doesn't want to do school. and so then they leave with the message of they're just misbehaving. and so even if it's a typical behavior, if it's a non desired behavior, you know,

it's not helpful for them coming at it from the approach. as you know, i love you, i'm here for you when you're ready, but we need to check in. i think all too often we get so caught up in our expectations and what our lives require about that. we have a hard time just setting aside a few minutes to intentionally check in and then all of the other stuff gets lost. and i think it's really important for folks to understand that specifically around suicide risk. when, when folks are saying things like, i don't know if people will care if i live or die or i've had thoughts of ending my life or i wish i were dead. these are things to 100 percent take seriously. it's one of the most common things that people overlook and they're like, come on. there's no reason why you got a great life. i mean, i love it. well, what about what ever? so they say these things, people say these things expressing suicidal intent. and then people ignore them and then they know i can't really share this with others. and so listening for those signs, those words that people are using, especially when they're in combination with the things that jessica was talking

about, where someone's feeling hopeless for the future is having difficulty sleeping. maybe has been deactivating their social media platforms, the, the disconnection and the sadness and the hopelessness and the lack of sleep. those are all really important, especially when somebody is talking about not wanting to stick around. you've been that you have this experience. what helped you when you felt it wasn't, was going on? what helped you? i think the 1st thing, honestly it was just my friend. something that we want to treat very seriously not underestimating the value of asking how are you? i might not say it the 1st time, but i have a lovely best friend who if i don't see it the 1st time, she'll keep asking like every 5 minutes she will. okay. but seriously, how are you? and she was not because you know, knowing de la i,

i may, i agree. and even if they can tell that, i don't want to talk about it, especially when it did happen when i was in that place, they would just try to do smaller thing support me. so for example, when i'm especially not in the best place, i usually forget to eat and the really bad habit, but enter and my friends will actually go and they'll either get food for me or they'll cook. and when i come back home from work is already food and i'm it makes me happy because food is like my comfort. i know. yes, i really do. i'm turn really grateful for all of them, but it was just done doing small thing. right. so i'm so grateful for you de la and jonathan and jessica, you're watching all just want to take you to berlin. her talks are being held with him of reducing violence in libya,

and your conference is just getting underway. gross, you, for the most speaking, let's listen to send the members of berlin and the entire international community. one message. let us all together work in establishing and consolidating stability in libya. the stability of libya is essential to bathing the way for and holding credible transfers. and national election and december, it's also imperative for in stating libyan sovereignty. as his excellency prime minister babe i set out, and i would like to emphasize, we believe that there are 2 fundamental requirement for achieving the objectives of stabilization of libya. we believe that they are 2 fundamental requirement, as we said. the 1st one is implementation of the international lead track, namely the berlin process. and the 2nd fundamental requirement is the

implementation of the libyan story. lead libyan owned framework, which is insured with the task of stabilization of libya. it is the libby, esteban ization initiative to be supervised and implemented by the libyan lead stabilisation group. the initiative have several aims and the security and economic sectors, but may lead to formulate practical mechanisms, not just ideas on paper, but practical and concrete ways of unifying. the libyan army. re integrating militias withdrawing mercenaries and foreign forces from libya, securing the border unifying. the libyan central bank to name a few. the libyans stability nation group has the task of following up on these mechanisms and implementing and lamenting them and the ground. the people of my country pin so much hope and the 2nd conference of the berlin process. my people

are looking forward to seeing more concrete measures which have a positive impact and the ground. it's time for actions because my people have heard enough. thank you so much. thank giving us what i'm the secretary general decarlo. thank you. first, let me express my appreciation to minister moss and the federal republic of germany for hosting this 2nd berlin conference. united nations is pleased to have co convened. i also want to thank germany for its leadership of the berlin process in support of the libyan people. we were especially pleased that representatives of libya prime minister debate and foreign minister mongers joined us for this session and thank them for sharing their views on libby as transition and for their requests to the international community, which we will do our best to honor the b.