they have explored over 100 u x unexplored canyons which they have the privilege of name nami. >> won'tong before we're simg. >> reporter: how locold does thr get? the geography is changing around us. this is what it's about, looking at the canyon, so narrow, the colors, the light. >> this is stunningly beautiful. this is the kind of things that you find when you're willing to go, push it a bit and look in some of these deep, dark corners. >> reporter: and we're in the water. gaspi ining as the cold seizes bodies. these are called pod holes but they're the size of swimming pools. >> some of these can be 20, 30 feet deep. you never commit the entire party to the pool like this or everybody gets trapped. >> reporter: you send your most dispensable person -- our senses, the cold, the cathedral canyon walls. lush, even though this is arizona and then our first rappel. more pod holes and more obsta e obstacles. mora pee rappels. we may be the first to ever see this. the canyon opens grandly into this a bigger canyon, lush with a stream running through it. we break to eat something and marvel

and collectively these women come together to do work on behalf of an organization called nami, the national association of mental illness. and they organize walks. they raise money, and they are sounding the alarm of the importance of doing quality mental health care work. and also giving voice to those persons that are receiving the services and the care. and putting a human face and a human story on many of these statistics. so, please. (applause) >> thank you. >>> all of the supervisors, thank you for this opportunity. i sit on the mental health board with bevan dufty. we tackle some heavy duty situations. i'm grateful to be here with wanda. i want to say to paulette, don't think our hearts don't hurt when we see those pictures. that is why we do the work we do. we received an award in chicago for teaching over 10 classes, family to family. and now we are on class 15 and still counting because we don't want to see any more people laying in the street. we want the parents to get involved and that's why it's called family to family. and i make appeal to everyone in this room to reach out a

first from namy in montgomery, alabama. joins us live via skype. good morning, naomi. how are you?een i've had borderline blood pressure. i'm now 28, and my numbers are in the upper 130s and upper 80s. my doctor put me on a blood pressure bill. >> okay. i think -- we're losing your audio there, naomi, but i think you were saying you're on a low-dose medication for this and also revealed in her mail that she's a little bit overweight so she's worried about whether or not, you know, to start taking the medication or if she should worry about losing the weight. >> okay. what i think that you need to know first off, if you start the medication, you can always get off the medication at any point, as long as your doctor feels like your numbers are normalized and everything is going smooth so don't be afraid of that in terms of starting the medication, we know if you lose just ten pounds, you can dramatically drive down your blood pressure numbers. so what i would tell you to do is if your doctor is recommending this low-bows medication, start it, and then let him or her know that your ga

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provide service and support, aka alpha kappa alpha, the urban league and the urban league guild and nami, the national association for the mentally ill. thankfor being here., of. .. here. i am patricia pickles, the author of "are you in a pickle? lessons learned along the way: students' performance and achievement gaps." i am the first college graduate from ie media family. when i was in high school i was in general classes. i was trapped on the basis of where i lived, my zip code. i was tracked on the basis of what my parents did, or did not do. and i was trapped on the basis of my race. i am extremely passionate about ensuring that every student in every classroom and every school across america has an opportunity to be successful, to have choices. how many of you have children in school? raise your hand. grandchildren? nieces? nephews? cousins. [laughter] then education is your business. education is your business because a substantial amount of tax dollars go to public education. education is your business because we prepare workers. we prepare them. right now almost half of the stud