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  1. life is crazy, there are constantly things happening all around
  2. us and it doesn't ever seem to slow down as
  3. young adults.
  4. We find many stressors in our lives.
  5. You find is a center where young adults are able
  6. to reach out to other young adults who are their
  7. age, who are their peers today.
  8. I want to show you more about this source.
  9. We'll look at what mental health issues look like.
  10. What you find is how to access it and how
  11. you find works with those mental health issues.
  12. Let's look at the reasons why teens would reach out
  13. to youth line, Having mental health issues or life stressors
  14. is challenging and it can be super hard to find
  15. what they may need from it, anxiety levels have been
  16. increasing since the covid pandemic.
  17. If we look at this graph here and compare it
  18. between two years ago versus this year, you can see
  19. that the anxiety levels have gone up.
  20. There's so many things going on in the world, both
  21. internally and externally, and that can be super hard to
  22. deal with when looking at an article by Jan Hoffman
  23. Reports of rising levels of anxiety and depression in the
  24. pandemic, published by New York Times in 2021 we can
  25. see that youth stressors, mental health has become made more
  26. of a problem since Covid, there has been an increase
  27. in mental health issues since Covid, and that shows in
  28. the increase of marijuana and alcohol use as well.
  29. We are constantly competing with each other as teens, you
  30. know, teens are fighting the pressures of getting the better
  31. S A.
  32. T score or getting into this college or getting this
  33. job and that's a lot of pressure to have on
  34. with yourself and with your peers.
  35. There's also the society pressures, you know, going to school,
  36. are you going to school?
  37. And then the more external pressures of society of, you
  38. know, people who are part of the LGBTQ community face
  39. more pressures than people who are not.
  40. In addition to all of the internal and external pressures
  41. that they're already facing.
  42. There is also digital stress too, Which is, you know,
  43. the phone buzzing every 15 minutes.
  44. That can put a lot of like anxiety and pressure
  45. coming at you all the time.
  46. Like I feel the need to respond to this, I
  47. need to do that.
  48. I need to do that.
  49. All of those slots become overwhelming.
  50. Can become a big cloud in an article by Mark
  51. Ham hide called Kids Screen Time in their mental health,
  52. published by Times magazine in 2000 and eight teen states
  53. that higher screen time is correlated with higher depression rates.
  54. And that could be a tipping point for some teens,
  55. especially if they have all of those other pressures over
  56. here. And then that phone buzzing at them over here
  57. and then the covid pandemic over here.
  58. It can be a lot to have that all going
  59. on in your head at once while you're trying to
  60. move and continue with your life.
  61. As many teens do, It's completely normal to want to
  62. talk to someone about it to one event to let
  63. it out.
  64. It's common.
  65. Youth line is a team to teen crisis line where
  66. teenagers are trained for a week to talk with other
  67. teenagers about a variety of issues.
  68. They are available for 12 to 20 year olds give
  69. or take a couple of years.
  70. It's not set boundaries from four PM to 10 PM
  71. daily every day.
  72. And if you feel the need to reach out a
  73. different time or you want to, there's an adult crisis
  74. line that you'll automatically be transferred to on this little
  75. sticker. You can see the phone number and then the
  76. texting number and then the chat number which are the
  77. three ways that you can reach out to you find
  78. if you want to talk to them verbally over the
  79. phone or if you want to keep it a little
  80. bit more low key and talk to them through chat
  81. or text.
  82. Those are both great ways that teens can reach out
  83. if they feel the need to talk.
  84. If they the team wanted something even more Low key
  85. and chill, they could use email or talk to the
  86. adult crisis line and emails take within 24 hours for
  87. a response if they feel that it is not that
  88. urgent. So you find helps with a wide variety of
  89. issues. Anything from a bad day at school to someone
  90. being pregnant.
  91. It's a good way for kids to vent to get
  92. things out.
  93. They also help with life threatening cases if you feel
  94. that or if a team feels that their life or
  95. someone else's life may be endangered.
  96. You think could be a good way for them to
  97. help out.
  98. You find volunteer workers are also trained to work with
  99. young adults who have ptsd eating disorders, schizophrenia, and so
  100. many more mental health disorders.
  101. So it would be a good way for teens to
  102. get that support that they may need.
  103. If a team were to reach out to you fine
  104. and they found that it wasn't a good fit, they
  105. could always use that as a stepping stone.
  106. You find workers have access to this database that can
  107. filter anything that they may need.
  108. They can find a group of people that they want
  109. to talk to you.
  110. They can find a therapist or they could filter it
  111. by like what insurance they have or what they don't
  112. have, where they live to find the perfect thing that
  113. a youth or a teenager may need.
  114. It can be good to help move forward if you're
  115. trying to get somewhere, but you don't know where to
  116. start looking.
  117. That can help.
  118. They act as a middleman almost.
  119. So how do context usually end with these lines In
  120. a news article by genovese Reum called during covid pandemic
  121. organ. Teen crisis workers still go into office.
  122. Published by K two News in october 2020.
  123. She states that you find are being so safe.
  124. Even with the Covid pandemic in this slide here, you
  125. can see this is an actual youth line room.
  126. You can see the plexi glass in between each worker
  127. and they are wearing masks.
  128. So they are still being saved while trying to help
  129. other teams through this tough time, which is quite remarkable.
  130. Um So far we've gone over lots of info about
  131. the source.
  132. We've looked at.
  133. What you find is how it can help, how it
  134. gives other teens and peers validation and how you can
  135. access them through phone calls, text messages, chats, emails and
  136. it can be used as a tool.
  137. And yeah, helps out.
  138. It's a good tool.
  139. As college students or young adults we sympathize automatically with
  140. all of those stressors in life.
  141. We understand we get it.
  142. We are all going through it.
  143. We are all facing it you find is the way
  144. for teens to get that help that they may need.
  145. Teens are definitely in a tough spot right now, especially
  146. with the pandemic.
  147. They're trying their best to prepare for the future to
  148. get a good start on life.
  149. You Flynn is a tool that is out there to
  150. help others to make the world a little bit better.
  151. And sympathetic couple place