this is cbs news bay area with reed cowan. >> crisis in our own community. looking to be and understood. >> if you don't explain your

symptoms the way they are used to hearing them explain, they do not understand. >> today, we continue important conversation shining the light on lgbtq youth. >> gen z not only very open about mental health but very open about the causes of mental health issues. and with older generations, they also don't understand that intersectionality of being gay. >> they say the crisis does not stop there, check on your strong friends including strong kids, athletes, high performers who seem fine but for some -- >> i feel like a lot of athletes, always feel that pressure. you can't really mess up or let people see people are not doing okay. >> this idea, especially with athletes, they can't take a break. they always have to be on. >> let's start the day with love, love for kids and mission

to save their lives. thanks for joining us. i am reed cowan. once again, community station working offer solutions to the nationwide crisis of youth mental health challenges. with cbs news to look at the struggles, what is behind them, and bring kids and teenagers, and adults together for help and support to find solutions. please gather those you love around the television set for community conversation. circuit with get to other top stories starting with first alert weather. it is rainy outside. >> yes. it is first alert day, isolated thunderstorms moving over the bay. we have watched it on first alert doppler all morning. focus in the south bay much of the late morning and early afternoon. we will see a few more isolated showers skim through, that is 5:00 tonight. a line of rain moves across the entire bay and drops more snow around hamilton. it will quiet down after that. no more rain tomorrow. really about the next four to five hours, the chance for isolated thunderstorm is possible. then we get along break,

nothing happens until saturday. that is when the next series of rainmakers moves in. enjoy the break wednesday through friday, make the most of it because there are more storms, more rain, we will probably see snow along bay area peaks with that system as it comes in. with much more as we get closer to it. to you for this important topic. >> thank you. continued coverage of first alert weather day on-air and online and streaming on cbs news bay area. other stories around the bay, gas line fire forced residents in neighborhood to evacuate their homes. this one deller boulevard. the fire broke out last night and eventually burned without this morning. pg&e keeping everybody away. bay area counties and the rest of california no longer under statewide pandemic emergency order. it ended officially today, nearly 3 years after put into place. what is it mean?

testing, treatment, vaccination cost could be impacted when the federal emergency ends in the month of may. ♪ let's continue with a week long conversation about youth mental health. data from the cdc shows for teenagers that identify as lesbian, gay, questioning poor mental health and the effects can be dire. >> lgbtq youth have had significant challenges when you look at things like attempted suicide. mpted icide. ting to seene uth e that is a call for help. >> you know what, news headlines can have an impact on mental health like this.

the deadly shooting inside lgbtq nightclub in colorado springs three months ago. in that story that splashed all over newspaper headlines and all over television, we saw young faces taken from this world. dominic killed five people and injured 17 others. the drumbeat of headlines continues. in california earlier this month, huntington beach city council voted to stop flying the pride flag outside their city hall. already this year, missouri state legislators filed two dozen bills aimed at the lgbtq community including one that goes further than florida don't say gay bill. human rights campaign recently said they are tracking 340 anti-lgbtq bills at state houses nationwide. nearly half of those specifically target people who are transgender. joining me is terry delaney, one of our teams in the bay area that created documentary focusing on youth mental health. thank you for being here. i'm proud of you. >> thank you. >> that is so important.

that moment is so important to let kids have an atmosphere where they can assert who they are and how they identify. why is that important? >> it is important because kids really need a space where they can be themselves. not just being queer but expressing struggles. on here to talk about being queer but also dealing with mental health issues. in my journey in the mental health system, i met a lot of kids who are queer. 90% of the kids in the system are lgbtq+ . that is because when we have family who rejects who we are, you can't come forward when you're struggling with mental health issues because you don't have that line of communication. i'm lucky, i have a family that supports me. and i still struggled. some of that is from the fear ,

very accepting area but still, we face a lot of bullying or a lot of fear dealing with that. and it adds anxiety to already very stressful life as a teenager. >> for sure. we want to acknowledge you have a family member here in the studio. phone videotaping you right now. this is so important from the family level, we know the kids who feel like they have support with an adult at home that saves lives. how important is it in the systems, inside schools, to have systems that have the right kind of dialogue or teachers and administrators know to honor pronouns, et cetera in sc how important is it and what was your experience? >> it is astounding what support at school can do for a kid. i go to a school where we are very supportive and accepted. i have many friewhe ou

queer or trans not at home. having that area of support, you know it is safe to be yourself. you can be yourself, even trusting at home it won't bleed into your home life and ruined that relationship. it is having that space is so important for being able to grow and develop yourself and your own interest. >> you shared with me before the broadcast how bad it got for you, even though you had support at home. during those really critical times, for the audience watching right now, what do you wish someone would have said or could have said to help you out? as we hear in literature, the darkness. >> i think, for me, what i struggled with was, not realizing like how much, how easy it is to ask for help if

you can get yourself to do it. i got a lot of help from counselors and therapists. even just for my friends and teachers and parents. when you know to reach understand what yougo through, wh can have nd intrpe really help people support you. >> terry, eunice lee said. thank you so much. i'hored to bring your story to the airwaves. it was so good to see drew barrymore celebrate you and your peer documentary makers. the full story is on kpix.com. thank you, my new friend. keep doing what you're doing and making the world a better place. >> thank you. >> if you or somebody you know

is in crisis, get help from the suicide and crisis lifeline by calling or texting 988. candidly, hearing from youth like terry about their struggles from mental health. bringing powerful cbs documentary streaming exclusively tomorrow night, we plan to air at 7:30. we hope you tune in, connecting the dots. #have the conversation, #raise your hand. still ahead, kids on the outside might seem to have everything under control. a deeper dive shows they are hurting too. >> practice. when you don't have practice and then games, you never have a day off. >> competing on your team and comparing yourself in the classroom. >> solutions you can latch onto, signs to look out for to help our kids balance sports and their mental well-being

♪♪ welcome back, we have today you feel like you're among friends because you are. conversation youth mental health continues with a look into the world of sports. reporter royce jones from her

cbs news station of pittsburgh shows how one soccer coach is making to health part of the goal for her players. >> reporter: for this elite group of girls, at the soccer club in canonsburg, ball his life. high school senior, stephanie cornelius, haley longwell, decided to further their soccer careers and are both celebrating commitments to division i universities, which is something most of the athletes that come through this league do or aspire to do. the success these girls have achieved has not come without discipline and sacrifice. >> i have team practices like three times a week approximately it. on the other days, i'm normally working on my own out on the field with myself. >> you have high school practice. when you don't have this and you have games, never really a day off. >> reporter: underneath the demanding schedule, tense physical strain, and tough competition are the emotional pressures of in the perfect athlete and scholar. >> you're competing on your

team but also preparing yourself in the classroom. >> i feel like a lot of athletes especially always feel that pressure, you can't really mess up or let people see that you are sometimes maybe not doing okay. >> reporter: something there head coach is working to change. she volunteers with the national alliance on mental illness and knows the impact stress of this magnitude can have on kids. >> the statistics for children aged 10 to 24, the number 2 cause of death is suicide. >> reporter: in fact, in 2022, five ncaa athletes died by suicide within a two month time frame. it created concern in college sports. she is working with her high school athletes to create a culture of love by putting less emphasis on performance and more on the person. >> they walk in, not just hey, coach. they are making a beeline for

you to ask a question about their life that is not soccer. how is your brother's piano recital or your science test yesterday, what is going on, something outside soccer? >> reporter: coach remind parents when it comes to young athletes, they need to act as a goalie against some of the pressures that come their way. >> maybe they lost. they get into the car, maybe the child is quiet. the last thing the parent should be doing is saying, i can't believe you did not do, xyz or do this. turn around and say, hey, i love watching you play. if they are upset, maybe they talk about it. >> reporter: keeping these girls confident off the field so they can be competitive on it. >> perspective you may not have thought about. joining me as oakland-based positive coaching alliance. thank you for being here. i was telling you on the break, i was a kid who could not do pull-ups in pe, i judged the

kids who code. i thought maybe because i was different, maybe i have the corner on the market of at le >> i think the big thing about sports, presents amazing opportunity for all kids at the end of level feel a sense of belonging, a sense of connection , to have a caring adult in their life, only when it is done right. when the adults responsible for this experience are equipped with the right tangible tips and tools that they can use to create this positive environment for youth, because that is ultimately what the number one goal should be. to create this experience i can develop better people, build a sense of connection, make kids feel included rather than dragging kids out of sports, having bullying happening, having kids quits for the very high rate. >> you take the experience of being involved with sporting activities, the tools you need one having mental health crisis, the ability to exercise, look at your nutrition in a healthy way, community and teambuilding. those are things that can help

save a life. they are important for that reason. tell me what the tips and tools are you would like people to take away. >> one key thing people say, sports can develop resilience. what does resiliency mean? one thing we talked about is having mastery approach to sport. that is really talking about having a growth mindset. leaving when you focus on effort and things that you can control, that is exciting, you can make progress and improve as a person. right as you have a fixed mindset, you think i'm not good at this, therefore do somethin failed. rather than thinking i can get better at this, if i work hard, this can improve. i think the adults, parents, and coaches can reinforce that mindset in a positive way by praising effort. even when the outcome is not there. you tried really hard and i saw you putting in the work. you may noticing the result you wanted but you absolutely tried your best. that is a win. >> we have these conversations,

it causes me as a parent to be introspective. i talked to some people with the cbs family, i'm taking these things to my own family. i tell my kids, we praise effort before excellence. i think that almost isn't the right term. it sets up excellence as the ideal. it should be on the effort and progress. >> absolutely, yeah. sometimes used today falls into comparison truck with social media. striving for perfection and looking for that, comparing yourself to others. whereas if you're introspective and think about, which is challenging, think about what i can get better at today, how do i make teammates better, how do i make community better, had i support someone? really that prress d growth is for youth. >> signs to look for if an athlete is struggling? i think when you see athlpracpersal hyg changes, maybe higher irritability, those can all be signs. the scariest thing is when there are no signs. we have seen quite a few examples the last few years where there is absolutely no sign of an athlete struggling.

potentially they take their life. i think that is something where modeling can potentially be helpful. drew robinson, i'm not sure if you're familiar with the story. you did a webinar without and talks about, the one thing that really could've helped me is hearing my coach talk about their mental health struggles and how they actively sought out therapy. not a direct way but addressing the locker room, saying, i might be dealing with something. therapy really helped me this morning. there is a great thing, let's talk about it. >> opening the conversation, creating safe spaces. thank you, casey. positive coaching alliance, thank you so much. will have those resources on a link on our website kpix.com. we are also looking for solutions and a way to help steer young people toward mental well-being. coming up, how the california- based trevor project reaching

back to the community conversation. check out the rainbow that is happened behind us. beautiful. talking about youth mental health. there are a lot of resources out there right at your fingertips and we want to make sure you have them. the big one is a friend of the trevor project, they specializing helping kids and youth with lgbtq community. we mentioned the nonprofit yesterday, we went to take a

deeper dive into what they are about. we take a closer look at the services they offer young people in your life. i love the trevor project. >> yes. it was founded a long time ago in 1998 and has only expanded since then. the largest suicide prevention and crisis intervention organization for lgbtq youth. the messages, you're not alone. thetrevorproject.org , is equipped with ways to offer help. counseling, mental health exercises, ways to meet other lgbtq friends, and have a resource center where you can explore topics like sexual orientation and gender identity. it is also filled with inspired messages like this one of the homepage, it reads in part quote, you deserve a welcoming, loving world. so to the people you care about. >> i'm here because i feel i have lived a privileged experience as a trans person. it is my duty to tell the next trans person that we need you here and you are valid and you

are seen and you are loved. >> sharing their story in 2022. the trevor project launched a series of stories of pride where several got to ries celeb the ecut, pehefr tstories of pride wel life dallas, interviews from lgbtq celebrities like jonathan vanness. the biggest thing the trevor project once you to know, counselors are available on the bsite any time. you can call or text. you want to text with weakness in the word, start to at 678678 . it is that simple. >> it is that simple and crucial. i have a friend that works with the trevor project. when the headlines spike with

lgbtq bills or things of violence we have seen, the call numbers go up exponentially. the messages they are there. >> yeah, i'm glad to remind people about. it has been around so long but you don't think about it until you need it. here's that reminder. help is there. thank you so much. if you or somebody you know is in a crisis, get help from the suicide and crisis lifeline by calling or texting 988. to hear candidly from youth about their struggles with mental health, we are bringing a powerful documentary to you

we started the broadcast off saying we will start with up and there. continue a conversation with youth mental health at 3:00 all this week and cbs news bay area as well. oms. g up at 5:00, look at children suffering from mental health crisis ending up there because of lack of appropriate or helpful care. cbs news investigation goes behind-the- scenes to uncover why exactly this happens. we have that story and more with his cook and ryan yamamoto coming up at 5:00. cbs evening news is next on kpix. local news continues. thank you for being part of this important conversation.

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