dr. temkin and the other federal partners here today, um, for organizing this summit and for giving afsp the opportunity to participate in this very important panel. i wanted to start out today by identifying some of the positive and problematic results of the recent emphasis that we've seen predominantly in the media, but also within the bullying prevention movement itself on bullying and suicide and the link between the two. i'll then briefly present the model for understanding youth suicide in the context of multiple risk and protective factors, although we've already covered some of this today, so i won't go into too much detail there. and then the majority of this today will really focus on emphasizing and offering guidance on safe messaging around bullying and suicide. so over the past couple of years we really have seen a very unprecedented attention by the international, national and local media, by social media, by advocacy groups, politicians, entertainers, film makers. there's now all of this attention on bullying and suicide. this has actually had a positive impact on the dis

dr. temkin and the other federal partners here today for organizing this summit and for giving afsp the opportunitypanel. i wanted to start out today by identifying some of the positive and problematic results of the recent emphasis that we've seen predominantly in the media, but also within the bullying prevention movement itself on bullying and suicide and the link between the two. um, i'll then briefly present the model for understanding youth suicide in the context of multiple risk and protective factors, although we've already covered some of this today, so i won't go into too much detail there. and then the majority of this today will really focus on emphasizing and offering guy can on safe -- guidance on safe messaging around bullying and suicide. so over the past couple of years we really have seen very unprecedented attention by the international, national and local media, by social media, by advocacy groups, politicians, entertainers, film makers, there's now all of this attention on bullying and suicide. this has actually had a positive impact on the discussion. we have a much wider reco

dr. deborah temkin, from the office of safe and healthy students, and she's going to kick us off. ♪ ♪ >> good morning, everyone. >> morning! >> so many of you have joined us in the past for our first two summits in 2010 and 2011, and i'm so pleased to see so many new faces in the room including a huge group of youth. so first thing i'm going to do is i'm going to ask you if you're under the age of 22, i want to hear from you. >> yeah. [laughter] >> throughout this summit i know some of them are arriving a little late, we're going to have about 30 youth in the room, but that's huge. because we know that in this issue is not one that's affecting us as adults, it's one that's happening every day to kids. and we can't do anything about this problem if we're not listening to the kids involved. so we're pleased to have you. thank you so much for being here. but what is our purpose for being here today? you know, we've had three of these. this is our third summit this year. what are we doing here? we're learning the best available research, and we're learning to collaborate with each oth