Adolescent Mental Health: Our Class Policy to Assess

the IssueGroup Members: Harry

Gottesman, Sam Brief, Abby Hwong, and Christian Knobloch

Summary Main Points•Erika’s Lighthouse

•“Get depression out of the dark”

•At every school in the state.

•GCN training course

•Make required in the state

•Suicide prevention and intervention.

•Untreated depression can lead to suicide

•This is a problem that can’t be ignored.

Graphs for two of our survey questions

This graph shows how many people, ages 12-17,

by gender, have had depression

What does it look like to be depressed? Maybe this.

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