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Okay, so I try to recycle.

I've got my grocery tote bag.

I even have solar panels on my roof.

But in the back of my mind, I can't help thinking:

Does any of this actually make a difference when it comes to climate change?

If you read the headlines, you quickly begin to see that climate change is a massive problem.

So is my reusable bag really going to change the world?

But not everyone feels that way.

This is all of my trash from the past four years…

Oh, my god.

This is Lauren Singer.

She runs a website where she gives tips and answers questions about living a zero-waste

life.

Okay, so you've got tiny little ends and bits and things…

Yeah.

Are you really telling me that everything else that you use for four years—

Is—

You've found some other use for?

Totally, is compostable, infinitely reusable, or 100% easily recyclable.

You may look at the extremely eco-friendly way Lauren is living and find it inspiring.

Or maybe, like me, you're totally skeptical.

But a lot of what she's doing is actually pretty simple.

When she wants coffee, she brings her own cup.

Or let's say she wants to buy a pastry; she'll put it into a reusable cotton bag.

A safety razor instead of plastic ones.

There's all this disposable stuff in our lives that we're not even thinking about.

And what Lauren's done is find some easy substitutes.

Everything else ends up in the jar.

This is macaroni-and-cheese packaging, and this was, like, four years ago, right when

I started.

That was, that was my weekend at Dad's house.

So these are…

Oh, I know what these are.

Plastic straws…

Hot chocolate.

This was a bad day, wasn't it, for you?

No, actually someone sent that to me in the mail.

These aren't huge trash problems.

The EPA isn't up in arms about plastic straws.

But you can see how these little bits of waste can really add up.

The United States is the No. 1 trash-producing country in the world.

If every country lived like the US, we'd need over four Earths to make all the stuff

we consume.

Do you think little things make a big difference?

Totally.

If you reduce single-use coffee cups from your routine and you're a daily coffee drinker,

that's 365 cups per year.

That's not an insignificant change.

If every single person did that,

that's a massive shift toward a more sustainable future.

And good policy can encourage this kind of shift.

Take plastic bags.

Americans throw away about 100 billion a year.

But California is trying to change this.

Three communities have found that if you offer a plastic bag for free, 75 percent of people

will take it.

But if you charge 10 cents for a bag, only 16 percent take it.

It's subtle, but this small fee makes people question whether they really need a bag.

And it reminds people to bring their own.

Communities across the country are beginning to

adopt this policy,

and it could create a large-scale shift.

If New York City had a bag fee, we could save roughly 7 billion plastic bags a year.

And without good policy, it can be really hard to do the right thing.

Take recycling: In a place like Missoula, Montana, where I live, you can't recycle

glass because doing so, it turns out, costs my city too much.

I think this is a fundamental flaw of governments and their relationship with businesses.

Businesses aren't held accountable for products that they're putting into the waste stream.

So they're allowed to sell glass in Montana, where there's no adequate recycling,

and completely wipe their hands free

and not have to subsidize any infrastructure to adequately recycle their product.

So that responsibility for disposing of that product falls on you, as a resident and the

government.

That is completely unfair.

The funny thing is, we used to have a really great system for dealing with glass.

After you were done with a bottle, you would just return it.

Companies would clean it and use it again and again.

Around the 1950s, companies began experimenting with single-use bottles and cans.

Lots of other things became single use too.

Like Don Draper here, people were just tossing their garbage wherever.

And all this trash started to annoy people.

Do you remember that very famous commercial?

Of this Native American,

he's, like, going down a river and there's all this waste, and a tear goes down.

People start pollution; people can stop it.

And it's often credited for quote unquote "cleaning up America"

because we were reminded that we need to pick up our trash.

You see this commercial every Earth Day, but it was actually funded by a group of companies

— many of them from the can and bottle industry.

They were worried that states would ban their single-use products because people were getting

sick of all the trash.

So they created this incredible ad, which is very powerful, which made us pick up trash.

Which is actually trash that they were creating…

And selling to us…

Yeah—

And profiting off of—

It actually shifted.

That was the moment…

I'm not suggesting that you shouldn't pick up trash.

But as far as I can tell, it was the first moment where we shifted this responsibility

from the person selling to the person buying.

That needs to change really quick.

And once it does, we won't even have to talk about

providing adequate recycling systems because businesses will create products

that are easily and conveniently recyclable because it will make more economic sense

for them if that burden is put on the business instead of the consumer and the government.

This gets to the heart of the matter.

Climate change is a giant problem.

We're not going to solve it without government and industry taking action.

We live in this complicated web of carbon emissions.

I mean, every single thing we do as individuals creates pollution.

It's overwhelming.

But there's one simple policy that could make going green easier for all of us

— and it could have an enormous impact: We could put a price on carbon.

Right now, companies can emit as much pollution as they like.

We're basically treating our sky like a giant sewer.

As long as it's free to pollute,

no one's going to stop doing it.

You can't just go out there and find one source or one factory, one business,

and shut it down and clean up your air.

Everybody in a sense is part of the problem.

If companies had to pay for the carbon they produce, it would encourage better behavior.

This is what California did in 2006.

The state set a cap on carbon and

other greenhouse gas emissions and they lowered it over the next few years.

Companies could either reduce their pollution or pay for carbon allowances.

And so far, it's worked.

The state is on track to hit its 2020 goal

— and they are looking to cut emissions by another 40% by 2030.

Now, California isn't perfect, but this is a huge reduction in emissions.

It's really larger than anything a person could achieve on their own.

The fears that were raised by opponents have not come to pass.

We've not seen an exodus of industries from California or people unable to drive their

cars.

And as the state cut emissions, California's economy has actually grown by 12%

— outpacing the national average.

Going green at this scale isn't an overnight process.

People like Mary Nichols have spent decades fighting for better policies.

We certainly have enjoyed a lot of political support from all sides.

I think that's largely just because the public in California has demanded that clean,

healthy air is something that everybody ought to have access to.

So individual climate action does matter, in the sense that it creates cultural change.

When Lauren makes a video tutorial or shares one of her zero-waste tips on Instagram,

it has a social ripple effect.

Do you want everyone to live the lifestyle you're living?

I would never tell anyone how to live their life.

But I'd like to show everyone that there are options.

That the way that we're told we have to live in this hyper-consumeristic way

isn't the only way we have to live in order to live in a modern world with modern luxuries.

Folks like Lauren really help build the bottom-up support you need for large-scale transformation.

Look, climate policy can be complicated, and sometimes it can be boring.

But we need it to solve global warming.

And to get better policies like a price on carbon, you need to have public support.

Because politicians and businesses won't take action unless people come together and

demand it.

So you may not be able to fit all your trash into a Mason jar.

But psychologists have been developing "green nudges" that trick us into being more green.

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(Joanne Oshel) Welcome, everyone, to today's

Now Is The Time TA Center webinar entitled,

"Communication and Referral Pathways:

"Streamlining the Continuum of Care for a Seamless Transition.

An Introduction to the CRP Toolkit."

And we have two great presenters with us today: Dr. Christina Borbely

and Amanda Lipp, both of who are with the TA Center.

So I will go ahead and pass it on to Dr. Christina Borbely to get started.

(Christina Borbely) Thank you, Joanne.

I appreciate it.

So welcome, everybody.

My name is Christina Borbely and I am the Project Director

at the Now Is The Time Technical Assistance Center.

I'm really pleased to be here with all of you today,

and I'm gonna be introducing my colleague, Amanda Lipp, shortly.

I did wanna welcome everybody to today's session

with a couple of quick updates.

So we are a small group, and we are going to be having

a really rich topic to unpack,

and so I'm hoping that we can keep it conversational,

and in anticipation of that I wanted to let folks know

that we're really excited today

because we are able to invite both the grantees

from the Healthy Transitions portion of the initiative

as well as from the Project AWARE cohort of this initiative.

So what you can see in front of you is kind of the overview

of the Now Is The Time overarching kind of White House initiative,

and I think most of you probably know that there are two,

and now more recently three main cohorts funded under this federal initiative.

And there are lots of areas of overlap.

So in general we are all committed to building systems

and supporting young people and their families

to address mental health and wellness,

and so I think we'll find a lot of common ground there,

and there are some kind of key differences that distinguish

across the cohorts, and so just as a quick reference point

the Healthy Transitions initiative are grantees who are supporting

young people ages 16 to 25 in navigating access to

and systems of mental health supports.

And then on the Project AWARE side,

grantees are tasked with serving school age youth,

so basically running K through 12,

and those grants are funded through state departments of education

and then support partnered local level education agencies.

On the Project AWARE side, there are 20 state departments of education

that are funded, and each of those grantees supports

three partner communities or three partnered local education agencies.

And so on the Healthy Transitions side, we have 17 grantees,

and they're kind of funded through a variety of entities.

A number of them through state departments of mental health,

but that's not exclusively the case.

And so I wanna welcome you all here together.

I know that there have been a few other opportunities

for this kind of cross-pollination of ideas,

cross-pollination bridging the two initiatives.

But this particular topic, I think there's going to be

a lot of opportunity to kind of share points of view,

share perspectives, and that's really what today is going to be about.

As you may have noticed, this particular session is

built around the Communication and Referral Pathways toolkit.

That is a compilation of recommendations and resources,

concrete tools that can guide our efforts to engage young people

and then help them navigate systems of care,

help them navigate provider choices, help them continue

and sustain their participation in self-care

as well as supported care through service providers.

And so our kind of spin-off session today is really gonna

focus on what are youth and young adults--

what are their kind of experiences, what are their perspectives,

what are their points of view?

And kind of tying that back to what are the practices

that we engage in as providers?

And so, again, I know so many of you are coming to this table

with really diverse experiences, and I'm hoping that we can ping

on you to share with each other some of the practices,

innovations, lessons learned throughout the conversation.

And I have a partner in this conversation today.

I'm very excited to introduce Amanda Lipp.

I have had the pleasure of working with Amanda

for almost a handful of years now, all around bringing information and access

and points of view related to youth mental health,

youth and young adult mental health to service providers,

to educators, to adult allies.

And so, Amanda, I'm gonna go ahead and turn it over

and let you introduce yourself and then we can go ahead

and begin the session.

(Amanda Lipp) All right, awesome.

Thanks so much, Christina.

I'm so excited to be with you all today to discuss

one of my favorite topics in mental health care, in this industry:

engagement and access with care.

I've been working with Now Is The Time for about a year and a half,

developing curriculum for trainings and working

with various multimedia products to really get this message out, right?

How we understand youth and young adults more,

how can we engage with them, understand their culture

so we can do our work better,

we can collaborate with our networks and understand really

the perspective that they have so we can utilize tools

to reach them where they're at.

And I'll say, too, that, you know, I really came into this work

fueled by my own personal experience.

When I was a freshman in college in 2010,

I experienced psychosis and hospitalization

and really that was what-- that experience was what motivated me

and my passion working in the system.

And transitioning between the child and adult-serving system

had its challenges, right?

But I learned that there is so much room for growth

and opportunity as we all work together to understand

the system better and how we all take part in what that means

and how we can create tools and utilize tools that we bring

to help serve youth and young adults better.

So thank you so much for everyone being here today.

Christina and I are really looking forward to having this

be a conversation, hearing what you all have to say,

what your experiences are,

and so we can all collaborate and use these tools

the best way we can with our communities.

So thank you for being here.

And I'll pass it back to Christina, yeah.

(Christina) Sure, thanks.

And just to kind of give folks a quick overview of how

we organized the conversation for today.

As I mentioned, in developing

the Communication and Referral Pathways toolkit--

now that's a resource that was attached in the reminder email

that Joanne sent out earlier today-- and so we are doing kind of the spin-off

or the unpacking of some very particular aspects of that tool.

One of them is that in developing that toolkit we were able

to collect youth and young adult perspective from a number

of individuals, and so what we wanna do here

is really unpack what is the human perspective on this.

So I was telling Amanda as we were preparing, you know,

when you say toolkit, it sounds pretty dry,

and really when you take a look at this one

and we talk through kind of what's in there today,

you're gonna find, I mean, it really is about real world point of view,

how do people see it, what do people want,

what have people felt before, and how do we make sure

that we are using tools and resources that are

going to be meaningful, that are gonna be authentic,

and that are gonna really encourage engagement in care.

And so that's what we're gonna be working on today,

together as a collective,

and hopefully we can move that conversation forward.

I'm sure it's not lost on any of you that the systems

to be navigated in anybody's life are quite complex.

And so when we're thinking about it from a youth

or young adult perspective and what their needs might be

and what doors they might be knocking on,

more often than not it's not a single issue.

And so part of what we're gonna be discussing today

is the complexity of navigating multiple systems

and what that looks like from a young--

youth or young adult's perspective who may be engaging in this for the first time.

And so again, you know, what we show here in this beautiful graphic

is there's kind of clarity, all right, on who's involved

and who they're trying to support.

But if we switch this graphic around, I think,

and represented it from a young adult's perspective,

you know, it might not look as ideal as this one.

You know, the arrows might not be as clear,

the lines of communication, the points of access

might be more convoluted,

there might be more loop-de-loops in here.

And so that's what we're trying to tease apart,

and it's an ongoing effort.

It's an ongoing process, so, you know, it's never done,

it's never--you don't get to cross it off the list,

but when we think about serving young people,

it's just a constant effort to inform

and refine the work that we're doing to make it as responsive

and easy to navigate as possible.

And so that's, again, I'm probably preaching to the choir here

because that's really what our aim is.

I'm sure that we can all kind of get on board in looking

for how do we provide networks of support that are gonna be accessible,

that are going to be appealing to young people and to their families,

and so before we kind of start looking at how to translate that,

I do just wanna remind folks that in this kind of mixed group today

that there are gonna be kind of a couple of nuances

that are important to remember.

So some of us are serving young adults,

and some of us are only serving youth.

Some of us are serving both.

And so there may be kind of some difference experiences

or recommendations that are gonna be age-group specific,

so we could think about that.

And it also has implications as we start discussing

kind of the nature of this work.

It also has implications for the role of family and caregivers,

and so depending on age, support may be youth driven,

or it may be youth guided, depending on the age groups

that we're talking about.

And so I did just want to highlight that for everybody,

because there are kind of differentials,

and in this conversation we really wanna be open to thinking about it

from those multiple perspectives, okay?

So that said, you know, when we think about again putting this

into the perspective of the youth and young adult

and how do we achieve this goal of services

that are responsive, seamless, collaboratively, culturally informed,

I think that there are some key considerations,

and Amanda really helped me think about what are some key aspects

of the paradigm that informs this.

So, Amanda, I'm gonna turn it back over to you

so you can kind of give people that kind of bird's eye view

of what we're gonna be unpacking today.

(Amanda) All right, thank you, Christina.

I'm gonna switch to the next slide here.

So, what you're seeing here is a framework that not only reflects

the Communication and Referral Pathways toolkit

that Christina referenced, and we'll be kinda referencing

throughout this webinar,

but this framework here further encapsulates really

an overarching paradigm for unpacking the youth

and young adult perspective.

What are those values?

How do they see it from their perspective?

So, in the four red boxes you see here,

from left to right you see identity, choice, engagement,

and then access and help-seeking,

which really could be considered gateways, right,

for how we can meaningfully approach the process

and values of supporting youth and young adults.

And at the center or at the heart, if you will,

of these gateways, you will see trust and empowerment,

because, really, what do we have without trust and empowerment?

So one interpretation of this framework or paradigm,

if you will, might be that trust and empowerment

of a particular person can be achieved through leveraging

the values you see in these red boxes,

depending really on where the young person enters, right?

So for example, a young person may enter the system, if you will,

through a particular identity.

So that then becomes a pivoting point

or a leveraging point through which the agency

or network earns the trust of the young person

and then empowers the young person by way

of offering choices and then engaging them in those choices

for the purpose of ultimately accessing or seeking care for they--

for the young person to do it themselves with the support

of the network or provider that they are working with.

So think of these red boxes as gateways or access points.

That really, you know, depending on a young person, you know,

it could be one of them, it could be all of them at the same time,

and at the heart of all of this is trust and empowerment,

which is really--without that, we have nothing, right?

And then, of course, the common denominator

throughout this process or framework is partnership, right?

Seeing the young person as someone your network is working

with as opposed to working for, and I think seeing it

in terms of with as opposed to for also promotes that this is

a shared process and that the young person

seeking services is also a leader of their own care

and not just something to be fixed.

So we'll be referring to this framework throughout this webinar

and kind of diving into each of these areas a bit more

and hopefully also hearing from you and your experiences

with each of these areas and maybe the challenges or access points

that you've had in respect to this framework

that we're using to kind of piggy-back off the tools

and the toolkit and also your experiences

with your community's individuals you may have worked with.

And so now I'm gonna pass it back to Christina.

(Christina) Thanks, Amanda.

So I do just wanna remind folks that we are planning on making

this conversational, so there are a couple of ways that you can do that.

We do wanna kind of start by exploring some of these overarching aspects,

but as you have questions or resources or recommendations,

if you wanna add them in the chatbox,

that actually provides us with documentation and a record

that we can then add to the summary follow-up to this discussion.

And we'll also be able to participate in some dialogue

along the way so we'll encourage you to unmute your phone

and contribute at that point.

But in terms of navigating pathways to support,

we wanted to start unpacking, looking at the different elements

of the paradigm that Amanda just introduced

and think about it from two kind of somatic questions.

So one is thinking about these elements in terms of what are

the perspectives of the youth and young adults

that you are working with, and then how are we incorporating

those perspectives into our service models, right?

So for some of you that might, right away,

kind of raise some recognition of, like, yeah,

we did a focus group last year or we have youth

and young adults who are on our advisory board,

we use a peer-to-peer support model.

So there are kind of probably different examples

that are coming to mind for folks.

What we wanna look at is really how do they inform each element

of that paradigm that contributes to trust and empowerment, okay?

Because when we're thinking about supporting youth

and young adult and those pathways, really what we are doing is playing

a key developmental role in making sure that young people recognize

needs and opportunities, have the tools that they need to be able

to identify supports for those needs and opportunities,

and can kind of consistently access and engage in them.

And so not only are we the provider of supports and services,

we are also kind of the provider of the model for

and kind of learning about how to meet one's individual needs

and how to kind of developmentally transition from that kind

of children's supports and services perspective

through youth and young adulthood into an adult perspective on

how to identify one's needs and then get supports

that are appropriate for them.

And so, again, what we really wanna do is think about

from our agency perspective when it comes to youth identity,

when it comes to helping them negotiate and understand their choices,

when we wanna know their opportunities and preferences for engagement

and the status of the opportunity that they perceive

for accessing and getting help, we wanna make sure

that we're tying it back to the particular communities

or populations that we're working with

and the practices that we're engaged in.

That said, I'm going to lay the foundation for this,

and Amanda knows how important this is to me

that we get to think about this right up front.

One of the things that is essential to any of these

elements of youth and young adult identity is cultural

and linguistic considerations, right?

So this is kind of core and fundamental to the work that we do.

And when we're talking about considerations for cultural

and linguistic factors, I wanna make sure that we're thinking about it

in the big picture, in the biggest sense of the word.

So in terms of the different factors that contribute

to one's sense of self and one's sense of identity,

culture can mean so many different things

beyond just race or ethnicity, beyond gender.

There are so many kind of different facets to that

and so we wanna make sure that as we are thinking about how we are

engaging the young people that we work with and the services

that we're providing them, really being aware and doing

our due diligence to understand the diversity of young people

that we are serving.

And so right off the bat, we wanna start with the hard stuff.

I wanted to just highlight kind of what are some of the tools

within the toolkit itself that can help you achieve kind of

effective communication, facilitation of referrals,

and then provision of appropriate supports and services.

That said, in addition to kind of bringing your awareness

to these tools and resources, Amanda's gonna help me

by kind of acknowledging the piece of it that is

the human common denominator.

So as much as we wanna have our ducks in a row

as service and support providers, we might not necessarily

want to kick off our relationship building

or our intake process at this particular level.

But let's look at it first from our kind of agency perspective.

So, one of the tools--and there are many of them in the toolkit--

but one of the tools that I wanted to highlight for folks

was this step-by-step guide to developing your

Behavioral Health Disparities Impact Statement,

which is a really long term for something that should be

pretty fundamental to the work that you're doing,

which is making sure that you have a good read

on who you're serving, what are some of the disparity issues

that could be impacting those populations,

so not only the populations that you currently have engaged

but the populations that you intend to engage

who might traditionally have challenges or experience

kind of marginalization that makes it difficult to engage them

in supports and services.

And so within the toolkit itself, there is a process--

step-by-step processes-- seven different steps for making sure

that you know your population,

that you have a continuous quality improvement plan,

and that you are on an ongoing basis integrating

or building readiness for the CLAS Standards for Service.

So CLAS is the Cultural and Linguistic Appropriateness Standards

for service-providers.

And it's an area that provides I think at this point

it's 12 or more different steps that your agency can engage in

to make sure that there are kind of strategic approaches

to minimizing disparities in access to supports and services.

So I do wanna pause there, and from an agency perspective

we're gonna talk about from a youth

and young adult perspective in just a moment.

But from an agency perspective, are folks on the line

engaged in kind of active pursuit of integrating CLAS Standards?

Is this kind of a new piece of information for folks?

How does that resonate with you?

Does anybody wanna press star-6 and contribute verbally?

Or you can go ahead and let us know kind of where you are

in terms of CLAS Standards integration by typing it in the chatbox.

So it looks for some folks that it's a new process.

So I think other folks who have been engaged in this for a while

would agree with me and say to me that if it's new just,

you know, be ready for the--

It's never-ending, so I like to think about kind of cultural competence

and the work that we do in those areas as a spectrum

and we are always engaged in learning and asking questions

and in integrating new information into our perspectives

and then into our practices and actions that we take.

So, again, thinking about it from the agency perspective,

again engaging in a concerted effort to recognize not only who is

the demographic that you're serving, you know,

what are their cultural considerations but then also thinking about, well,

what are the disparity issues that they're facing?

You know, I think a lot of times it's so easy to become immersed

in the work that it can be a challenge to kind of lift

our head up from our desks and look around and see, you know,

who wasn't able to get an appointment or who didn't know

where the office was located or who couldn't get there

within the hours of operation.

And so addressing Behavioral Health Disparity Impact Statement

provides a concrete kind of working plan for how to keep tabs

on these issues and make sure that there's

kind of thoughtful approach to organizing the agency around addressing them.

I wanna shift gears just a little bit unless folks

wanna unpack that anymore.

I wanna shift gears a little bit and put it from the perspective

of the youth or young adult.

So, as I mentioned before, we do have such a myriad

of young people that we're serving, right,

with any number of kind of sense of cultural identities,

cultural factors, background information,

where they're--what they're kind of unpacking or exploring

about themselves at the current time

and where they're going with that.

So another tool that could be a useful springboard

towards exploring that is tool 4.2 in the toolkit.

this is the Cultural Awareness and Cultural Identity Worksheet.

And while it is designed for youth and young adults,

it may be something that you adapt or kind of think about building in

in a more graduated level.

Again, some of these topics are really sensitive topics,

and I'm sure Amanda's gonna underscore for me the importance of building

trust and building rapport before we-- and also mutuality,

so as opposed to just kind of handing this out as a worksheet

to our youth and young adult, thinking about creative ways

to build it into early or kind of phased conversations,

thinking about it as a reflection tool, so these might be topics

that youth and young adults haven't thought of before.

You know, when you ask questions like, you know--

so if someone asked me a question about what expectations I have

with people from other races or other ethnic groups,

other socioeconomic classes.

If someone asked me those questions, you know,

within the first few times of meeting them,

I might be a little put off,

so thinking about how to integrate these tools in ways

that are gonna be productive and that are gonna be useful

in getting to know people, while at the same time

creating a space that feels safe is gonna be important.

(Amanda) Right, right.

And just to add to that, Christina, you know,

in respect to the youth and young adult population

and what we consider perhaps a youth culture, it's interesting, right,

because we all could-- I would imagine--

could put on our youth/young adult hats

whether it's now or it was maybe 10 years ago

whenever you identified as a youth or young adult

and it becomes this question of well,

what is that youth culture now with the youth that your agency is serving?

What is it?

How do we define that youth culture?

And then how do we go about approaching it and optimizing--

operationalizing what that means?

Where are youth hanging out? What are their preferences?

What's the trend going on?

And really, the only way to find that out is to involve the experts, right,

which are the youth and young adults themselves.

In respect to the worksheet here and these questions,

as Christina pointed out, you know, they are very personal, right?

I mean, you can--they could be very sensitive to certain individuals,

youth and young adults who are being prompted,

these types of questions and they may recluse or they may,

you know, go full on and answer them and share a lot.

And you know, I think one way perhaps to approach these--

this worksheet or the concept of these questions themselves

is by way of providers and agencies, not just facilitating these

questions to youth and young adults,

but also they themselves attempting to answer the questions, right?

How would you answer these from your own experience

as a current self-identified youth/young adult

or putting your youth/young adult hat on 10, 20, 30 years ago

and thinking about, you know, what would it be like for you?

How would you want to be engaged in the system

or in a particular focus group if you were young

and perhaps going through a challenging time?

And I think thinking of it that way in terms of that empathy

and leveraging that empathy and, again, thinking of it more

as a question amongst each other, rather than asking it, you know,

to youth, I think levels the playing field in terms of youth

and young adult feeling respected, that it's not just about

what they are going through, but as the partner--

feeling as partners in the agency work in the service model

that you are providing with them as well.

(Christina) Yeah, you know,

when we think about culture, a lot of times it can be

a sensitive and loaded point of conversation.

But I also wanna highlight that, you know, there's--

it does create an opportunity for relationship building.

I personally don't subscribe to this,

but I can see that there are some very clear cultural differences,

depending on what football team you advocate for

or what baseball team you're passionate about

and those kind of cross-cultural conversations

are often interesting ways so we can--to build rapport.

Music is another one where I feel like a lot of times

people have strong sense of identity and are willing to discuss it

with somebody who's either the same--

coming from the same cultural perspective

or from a different cultural perspective.

That said, I think it is one of the areas where we did hear

most strongly from our youth and young adults

who were commenting on this.

You know, their insights into wanting to have not only

recognition for who they are and who they're becoming

but also to recognize kind of the value

they find in having reciprocity in relationship building.

And so to that end, you know, just to kind of set--

just to kind of, like, underscore what we're talking about,

you know, we were able to pull together from so many different perspectives,

you know, what our wishes, what our to-do lists,

what our--what's on the no-go zone,

from youth and young adults when it comes to establishing

communication with youth and young adults,

when it comes to building referral pathways

for youth and young adults.

And for those of you who are taking a look at this slide,

you know, even if you don't wanna read

all of the quotes right now, you know,

the general point here is that there is plenty of perspective

to be had, so just kind of opening the door

to that voice really, I think, has demonstrated that there are--

there's no shortage of opinions.

And so, you know, I think that these are just a smattering

of pieces of input that youth and young adult had

as we were asking them about their preferences

for communication pathways and for referral pathways.

Amanda, I didn't know if you wanted to say anything else

about this or if you wanted to go ahead and move forward

to talking more about identity?

(Amanda) Yeah.

No, I echo what you said, Christina, and this--

the process of not only creating the toolkit that we're touching on today

but I think, also, the model for agencies moving forward

or to optimize currently is really leveraging that youth voice.

And not just in terms of the youth being young by way of their age,

you know, the circumstance of them being a youth/young adult

is really the circumstance inevitably of being young, right?

So I think another strategy as well is to not only see

the youth and young adult and engaging them because they're young

but to also engage them by way of their experiences,

their culture, their interests.

Like you touched on, Christina, what's their favorite baseball team,

their--what music do they listen to,

these different cultural gateways that we can enter through.

I think sometimes what I hear youth and young adults saying

is that they don't want to just be engaged

because they're young and they're youthful, right?

That can be--it can feel condescending, right?

They wanna be engaged because there's something

that they can contribute beyond their inevitable circumstance of age:

their passions, their interests, their skill sets, their expertise,

their racial ethnic background, their sexual orientation.

So, again, just not thinking about engaging youth and their perspective

by way of their age but also their other interests

and cultural background and affiliations as well.

And here again, we kind of reintroduce this paradigm

that we talked about a little bit earlier to just kind of set

the stage here for how we can think about the engagement of youth

and young adults and their various cultures

and how we can package that in this paradigm.

And so just to unpack that a little bit here,

in that first square box, we see identity.

And then the three items below that:

person-centered, strength-based, and non-stigmatizing.

And really, again, just echoing the youth coordinators

who helped put together this toolkit and helped really teach us

about their perspectives and what their identities were.

We learned a lot about what identity meant in respect

to engagement in service models.

And so just to unpack that a little bit more and, again,

be curious to hear as well--

put on your thinking caps about what your service agencies' approaches are

in terms of identity-driven service models, right?

And just to break that down, a person-centered one,

really to define that would be meeting youth and young adult

where they're at, right, emotionally and culturally.

So to quote one of the youth coordinators

who reported on this, they said, quote,

"They felt more positive about service providers

"and organizations that represented their own diversity

in terms of race, ethnicity, language, and sexual orientation."

So, again, meeting them where they're at.

Where--what is that pivotal perhaps dominant identity

through which that they are identifying at, and how can we align them

with the service or with a particular individual

who can have that empathy with that individual

from a cultural perspective as well.

I think oftentimes, you know, the first concern and validly so is

what symptoms or, you know, what diagnoses or things like that,

but oftentimes the best way to uncover symptoms

or what someone is experiencing and what those mental health challenges might be

is often very much intersecting and relating to their cultural background.

Because I think indeed mental health challenges and cultural are--

culture are two sides of the same coin, right?

So person-centered care is one of the big ones

that youth coordinators definitely helped resonate

throughout the toolkit that we're talking about today.

And then, of course, strength-based care.

Focusing and leveraging on the opportunity in the challenge.

So how can we translate the challenge or the adversity that

the particular young person is facing as an opportunity,

for example, for self-advocacy or for leadership

or for a career path that they are interested in?

If we're not focusing on the problem but translating that

into strength-based verbiage that can help build again

that trust and empowerment in the services

that they may be accessing.

And if we can support that process, then,

they're probably more likely to sustain their own engagement

in the service model as well.

And then that third bullet, the non-stigmatizing.

Now, I'm sure we all know stigma is a pretty tricky topic, right?

There's arguably many different definitions out there for what

that means in individuals' own narratives and how they

experience it institutionally, how they experience it

within their own sense of self.

Stigma is something that is always gonna, I think,

be an issue that we are trying to define ourselves and as a system.

But where it gets interesting is that oftentimes stigma

is associated with labels or diagnoses.

And while those diagnoses have the intention to help people

get access and coverage to the services that they may need,

at the heart of that diagnosis is what the interpretation is, right?

What the interpretation is of that label or diagnoses.

It's really at the heart of what either empowers individuals

or can leave them feeling a sense of self-stigma

or shame and embarrassment which will then disable them

from the services that they may have otherwise accessed.

So, again, going back to how we can translate what a diagnosis may mean

to the individual in their own language,

in their own terms, that can help empower them to sustain services,

to engage in services, and to access the care

that they need-- that they may need.

And just to end this slide on another quote

that a youth coordinator provided in the creation of this toolkit

was that they said, quote,

"That they would be less likely to seek further contact with human services

"if they perceived the system to be focused solely on identifying

and labeling their disabilities or deficiencies."

So you can see there sort of the emphasis

I put on dis-ability or de-ficiency.

And it's interesting because, again as a system,

we sort of label these things for the young person or the youth,

and that can feel--that can feel difficult when you're young

and you're trying to find your identity, find your purpose,

and build your own career

and yet you're sort of left with this disabling sort of tone

on your own sense of self.

So, again, how can we translate this quote-unquote "disability"

into something that is actually an ability

and an opportunity to promote self-wellness and self-determination.

And, well, I'm gonna actually pass it now over to Christina.

(Christina) Yeah, Amanda.

I was just gonna say I really appreciate you

making that point so clearly, you know, and it kind of--

it's so powerful to hear it from that point of view.

When I'm talking to mental health providers,

one of the things that I like to remind folks about

from kind of that agency perspective is that, you know, as--

from the provider perspective, you know, and even if we broaden it

so, you know, whether you're a teacher or whether you're a school counselor

or whether you're an administrator, you know, a lot of times,

or, you know, if you're a community partner

providing mental health services, you know, in any of these roles

where we are providing support to youth and young adults,

oftentimes, you know, it could be the hundredth time

or the thousandth time or the ten-thousandth time

that we have quote-unquote "seen this," you know?

And so I'd like--I really like to remind people, you know,

that even if you-- if you think you recognize it

or you think you have seen this before,

that each of us is a unique individual and for a young person

or a young person's family, this could be the--

or not this could be.

I mean, this is their first time being this person, all right?

So whether it's a 10-year-old who has maybe

or maybe not an official ADD diagnosis in the classroom

or whether it's a 22-year-old who is navigating, you know,

stress or anxiety or depression and seeking out, you know,

support from a, you know, community college campus health center,

it's their--it's likely their first time, and so, you know,

really making sure that we are doing our due diligence

to support this person in, you know,

learning about what are their needs, what are their strengths,

what are their abilities, what are their preferences,

can be a very powerful way to reconnect them

to this sense of identity and, you know, oftentimes

again the human element of it gets lost in the paperwork element

or the bureaucratic element or the fact that we have,

you know, 25 hats that we're wearing.

And so one of the tools that I really appreciate in kind of supporting

this approach to identity is this SNAP assessment,

which is the Strengths, Needs, Abilities, and Preferences tool.

And this is just a snapshot of it that you see in front of you.

It's actually, you know, it's a very clear and concise way

for you and probably most likely a youth or young adult

to really just kind of think through, like, wait,

where am I in this equation, like, how do I fit in?

Like, where do I fall on these kind of different elements of,

you know, experiences that everybody has, right?

The sense that we all have strengths and abilities,

we all have needs.

And it's fair and we all have preferences for how we want things to go.

And so this can be just kind of a really straightforward way

to begin to integrate that sense of connecting with each person

for who they are and where they are with things into the kind

of service practices that you're engaged in.

So it's one of my favorites.

But I think it's also a nice springboard right into this next step,

Amanda, where it goes from, you know, really creating a space for,

you know, a strengths-based, an asset-based approach

to identity and also creating a space where there's identity

that's yet to be determined or defined and how that links to choice.

So I wondered if you could talk a little bit about the kind of choice

element in our paradigm for supports and services.

(Amanda) Right, yeah.

The SNAP tool is awesome, the fact that even just in the title right there,

we see strengths and abilities.

And it's really empowering, right?

I'm already feeling drawn to it personally.

I'm thinking, like, okay, which boxes can I check

and how can I use the tool myself or with other peers that I'm working with

who are young and who may be entering services

for the first time and--

(Christina) We could do it together later,

Amanda, if you want.

(Amanda) You know, I think we should, you know?

(Christina) Okay.

[laughing]

(Amanda) Yeah, and it's meant to be

a collaborative tool, right, that we're working on together

with our providers and, you know,

we're both providing information to this tool, right?

Oftentimes we get kind of caught in that verbiage of, you know,

a provider and a consumer, but really, you know,

the way I see it personally is we're both providing,

and we're both consuming information, right?

It's really the flat model of-- and it's a lot more equal power dynamic

in that each person is bringing something to the table

and offering options and choices really, which leads us into really

the next slide in terms of this paradigm.

Again, going back to this to kind of just help capture these tools

is now the gateway-- I'm calling again,

these red boxes, gateways.

Now, the gateway of choice.

And within choice we can unpack that in terms of mutuality

and customizing care and then the third bullet here,

negotiating options and perspectives, right?

So that way, we don't see this as just a one-size-fits-all in that,

you know, one person's providing, one person is receiving

but we're really seeing this as a team-based effort

and empowering the youth and young adult to really pull up a seat

to a table and take a lead and take charge in their own care.

So, in terms of mutuality, you know, arguably most youth

and young adults don't want to feel they are the subject of

or the problem to be fixed, right?

Especially when they are presumably vulnerable, right,

or in need of supportive services.

As Christina pointed out, you know, this might be their first time

accessing services or seeking care, which is extremely vulnerable,

but it can also be extremely empowering, right?

They want to be the leader of their own solution

and their own wellness plan, or we want to at least facilitate

and set them up for success

in terms of being able to speak about it in that way.

And what tools can we give them, what competence can we support

within their own development to help that process,

to foster that relationship with them, and have this just shared

decision-making to also enhance their own competency, right?

We're not just seeing this youth and young adult as someone to help

in their own mental health but also in terms of their career

and all the other intersections we saw earlier

with employment, housing, education, right?

This is not in a vacuum.

We're seen as in a developmental spectrum

across different domains in life.

And part of doing that is customizing care, right?

Meeting them where they are at and giving them

a menu of options that they can choose from

that best fits their identity, right?

Because they're not gonna go down that path

if it doesn't resonate with their culture, their language,

and with folks that can relate with them.

And of course, it's also a direct reflection of the network

of care the youth is involved in and how that network

is collaborating with other service providers or non-profits

who are in that geographic location perhaps.

And so how can we collaborate together

so we can meet the youth where they're at

and really optimize each agency's strengths

and options so we can create a package of customized care

for this young person so we can keep them engaged

in accessing help.

And I'll also quote a youth coordinator who reported, quote,

"I think the choices is huge.

"It allows people to feel a sense of control over themselves

"and shows that the adult/professional believes

"that they are mature and capable of choosing

the right decision for themselves."

So I think that was a really powerful quote that this young person

really provided us in creating this toolkit and really emphasizes

the power dynamic in terms of the ultimate goal

being that the young person feels that they are in charge

and that they have the tools to do so based on their own capacity.

And then, of course, the last bullet.

How do we negotiate options and perspectives, right?

And I think this one is huge because there really is no one size fits all.

And I think, you know,

sometimes there's different camps in mental health,

and it can be controversial in terms of how these different labels

and diagnoses provide opportunities for young people

because, of course, the ideal is to have the intention

for a diagnosis or a--

or what can be considered a label to provide this access

and to provide this coverage and to provide this sort of path for care,

but oftentimes this really hinders the identity or it--

the young person is left feeling like their identity

is pivoting around this diagnosis which oftentimes has

a lot of historical or perceived stigma attached to it.

And so how do we negotiate options with this young person?

How do we help them understand that a diagnosis is

just one perspective and one way in which we are providing care

and providing tools and providing options?

And then, of course, allowing time for the young person

to disagree or to agree, and that being okay, right?

And not seeing the young person in denial of something

but as trying to understand where their identity fits in all of this.

Because it can be really confusing, it can be really difficult,

and I can personally relate to having received a diagnosis

and immediately shutting off, immediately disengaging

and feeling like the diagnosis became-- you know, replaced my name, right?

But instead, it should promote a conversation, right?

It should promote an opportunity to discuss what that means

culturally and scientifically what's happening, as well,

in terms of maybe symptoms that one is experiencing.

So mutuality, customizing care, and negotiating options is,

I think, as well at the heart of this trust and empowerment

in providing care to youth and young adults.

(Christina) And Amanda, I wanna say thank you

so much for being so candid

and kind of sharing your own personal experience with this.

You know, I think, you know, one of the things that I heard you say

that I just feel like, you know, we should probably make

some T-shirts and hand them out to folks who participated today

is that, you know, just this idea that, like, there should--

it should be a dialogue that, like, there should be room to disagree,

there should be room to, kind of like, have different opinions

and really kind of honor the different experiences of it.

And you know, to that end, the toolkit has so many awesome tools,

and I'm not gonna spend time going through each one of them.

I couldn't pick which one so I just included, like,

my top five favorites.

But you will see here, you know, just kind of in overview

and what you have in your resources in front of you are these

kind of concrete tools that young people,

youth and young adults can use to ask questions,

you know, to be present and be part of that dialogue

with some prompts, with some supports,

that might help them recognize, like, well, what do I care about?

You know, do I want a provider who's had experience with,

you know, the stuff that I'm dealing with

or does that not matter to me?

You know, I wanna--I'm gonna just kind of move around

on these slides so you can see the different tools

but I'm gonna be talking about something different

than what you're seeing, so you can focus on whichever one you want,

but I, you know, was thinking about this young adult,

a young lady who's 16 and really going through a tough time

and recognizing the need that she needed more support

than she was getting, and she was kind of considering what would be

possible if she decided to pursue an inpatient program.

And so, you know, she and I were talking about, you know,

how that would feel and kind of what might be some next steps

in pursuing that and anticipating having a conversation

with a director at an inpatient therapeutic program.

And you know, I said, "Look, okay, well,

"what kinds of questions would we ask, you know,

"so when we get to talk to this person, you know,

"what kinds of questions are important,

what answers are important for you to have?"

And of course, in my mind as an adult, I'm, like,

"Well, you wanna find out if they take your insurance."

I didn't say that. That was my internal dialogue.

Her questions were, like, right off the top of her head,

she wanted to make sure that she'd be allowed to bring

and wear her makeup if she went into inpatient treatment

and she also wanted to make sure that she would have a say

over whether she was doing individual therapy

or whether she was gonna have to participate

in group therapy sessions.

So, I mean, she had really strong opinions about both of those things,

and, like, we crafted her list of things that

she wanted to make sure that she had the answer for

and, you know, it just kind of goes to show you like it's really,

I think, creating a space and giving some concrete examples of like

are these questions that you care about

and even just introducing the idea that you're, to a certain extent,

you are able to kind of guide this and make some choices

about what is a good fit for you, and in doing so,

you're letting the other people who are supporting you

or the other people who are part of your,

you know, quote-unquote kind of, "care team," know what,

you know, what your priorities are and kind of what

are some of the considerations so that there is more

information for kind of how to accommodate you as a person.

And so, again, I did over-include a number of tools

here as examples just because I thought that there were

some really kind of meaningful opportunities to kind of either

use these as springboards or kind of starting points

for those conversations and empowering young people

to have a role in collecting information that matters to them.

And then the other thing that's kind of mixed in here

that I'm gonna land on for just one moment is

in this top left corner, Tool 1.6.

And this kind of loops back to what I was talking about earlier

in the conversation around, you know,

being part of this developmental trajectory.

So, you know, youth and young adults, you know,

moving out of being children and moving closer to adulthood

and kind of navigating how we can model for them

this increasing opportunity for them to contribute to decisions,

to demonstrate autonomy, to, you know, be informed

in their choice-making.

And so Tool 1.6, I think, can be a helpful reference point for us

as providers or supporters of young people,

it can be helpful for families and caregivers

to be aware of kind of the different roles

and how things transition from childhood to youth

to young adulthood and then into adulthood.

So that said, Amanda, I do wanna be a little bit conscious of the time,

and I had this idea that now thinking about

where we are in things, we've--we have covered identity

and we've covered choice and we are feeling

nice and cozy right here in the middle of trust and empowerment.

And moving on to engagement and access of help-seeking,

so I wondered if maybe now is a good time to just pause

and check in with folks about identity and choice before we move on

to the other two facets.

(Amanda) Absolutely.

It would be great to hear from folks and what your thoughts are

and what experience you've had or even just what challenges are,

what are you working on, where are your roadblocks

or where do you see things going in your service model

or your agency.

If you feel comfortable writing it in the chatbox or star-6,

unmute your phone.

Please chime in and let us know what you're thinking.

(Christina) I'm wondering if folks

have other tools other than some of the examples that we've given,

that they would recommend to others in kind of supporting

the approach to honoring identity and then integrating choice.

(Christina) Sometimes I feel like--

so I'll just keep talking until somebody can interrupt me,

but, I mean, I don't know what your perspective is

but just kind of going back to the choice point piece,

I feel like in my general sense, like, this is one of the harder

kind of cultural norms to break, and I mean culture in the biggest sense,

you know, but this idea of, you know, having youth

and young adults be empowered to have choice in this process

gets confounded, I think, by a number of things like,

first of all, you know, it's kind of oftentimes this is a new experience

and so maybe not having previous experiences to draw from

and not necessarily knowing how to advocate for one's self

at younger ages compared to older ages

and then kind of combined with the fact that a lot of times as adults

we do have that kind of backdrop or those previous experiences

to draw from so it's, like, as kind of veteran adults we're, like,

automatically in choice-making mode and sometimes forget

to kind of be quiet for a minute, I think, and create a space

for folks to sort out, like, you know,

maybe even just like articulating what they don't know,

if they're not in a decision-making point, you know,

at the, like, point of, like,

"Wow, I haven't even thought about these things."

(Amanda) Mm-hmm, you know,

absolutely, and I think, you know, in terms of transitioning

from a child-serving system to the adult-serving system

and having perhaps adults in the young adult's corner

who are advocating to them, offering them choices

and as you, you know, mentioned earlier, Christina,

getting on that logistical hat and trying to uncover

if there's healthcare opportunities there,

is there coverage, do we-- can we actually access it?

And I think having those options, those people in your court

to be a springboard for those different questions is huge, right?

And I think the big part of how we can set up choices for youth

and young adults might be just simply in the way

in which we're approaching it.

For example, when my mom tells me to do something,

I'm probably not gonna do it,

but if she shares with me a story about how she accessed

something similar when she was young and kind of gives me

an anecdotal story about her experience accessing

it or approaching it from a-- maybe a difficult time and really,

you know, the point being to use that empathy and storytelling

to inspire or empower me to understand from my perspective

can be a way to sort of use, I guess,

reverse psychology to empower me to make my own decision.

And so I think that's another big thing that, at least for me

as a young person, worked was when my parents

would strategically reframe it in terms of,

"Well, in my experience, when I went through something,

"you know, it was tough.

But when I tried this," and really what they were saying

was, "You might consider this option, Amanda,

"but we're gonna let you put it in your own words

"rather than us telling you what you should do

or how you should do it," right?

(Christina) Well, I can tell you

that I'm 43 this month, and when my mom tells me

to do something my initial instinct is to not do it.

So that might be more a function of personality than age

after a certain point, but I definitely agree with you

in the sense that, you know, I think it is an opportunity

to allow kind of for this.

Sorry.

So, you know, I was thinking about it in the sense of, like,

when I teach about adult learning principles, you know,

one of the kind of best practices for adult learning

principles which is certainly what's beginning to emerge

and come into play for our youth and young adults is this idea

that the individuals are their own experts to a certain right.

And so, you know, tapping into what their strengths are

and tapping into what their abilities are and then letting

them kind of build or kind of scaffold off of that is

oftentimes gonna be more successful and gain more

traction than the didactic approach of, like, well,

let me tell you what you need to do,

or, you know, you should really do this.

And so I definitely resonate with that point.

Thank you for bringing it up.

(Amanda) I--right.

Yeah, absolutely.

Do other folks have stories that they've experienced,

perhaps in your own, you know, personal lives

or professional work that you're doing

or maybe you've had a goal in mind, you've had,

you know, an outcome that you envisioned for a young person.

You think it's the best way, you think it's the best approach,

but now you're trying to package it in a way

that would resonate with them.

You're trying to, essentially, get them to consider

what this outcome might be and how they might get there.

And I'm wondering, you know, if folks have ideas

or stories about this and if it worked or if it didn't.

And what might be a next step?

(Amanda) Okay, folks are reflecting

and thinking very hard about this topic.

Well, we're happy to keep sharing some stories

and some strategies about what that has been like

and kind of piggy-backing off of these tools.

I'll just share one more quick story about an engagement approach

from a campus-based perspective.

I graduated a few years ago from college,

but I still try to always kind of go back to that place

and put myself on campus in terms of, you know,

a young person and if I were needing help and support,

where would I go?

And the visual I want you to have in your head is that campus club day

where there is a bunch of tables and all the freshmen

or, you know, seniors are all trying to join clubs

or understand what clubs are out there and get involved.

And when I was on the college campus I noticed a NAMI

on Campus Club which NAMI stands for, if you aren't aware,

the National Alliance on Mental Illness.

And NAMI has this campus club, right,

that is about programs in service and supporting mental health,

but it was interesting because I didn't see any youth

or young adults at this NAMI table,

and I was kind of wondering why there was

no one grouped around this NAMI on Campus table.

And there could be, I'm sure, a bunch of reasons why,

but I began thinking of engagement and trying to--

flipping engagement on its head and thinking about how to sort of creatively,

strategically engage folks in their own wellness.

Something to consider in terms of these mental health wellness clubs

or that specialize in sort of what mental illness might be

is to then partner perhaps with these other agencies,

these other clubs on campus, that are about hobbies and interests

and passions that young people might have,

and if we can think about engagement in terms of a partnership

and perhaps these campus clubs about mental health

and mental illness being on all of these different campus

club tables and not just on one table

where we're expecting youth might go who are having trouble.

And so how can we basically reach folks

where they're naturally going to go?

For example, if they're interested in the snowboard club

or the photography club, how can we partner

with the mental health club on campus to put their brochures

on the snowboard club so when someone goes to engage

and sign up for the snowboard club,

they're gonna see that they're also going to get supported

with mental health resources and programs.

And working it from both sides of it,

in terms of just one example for how your agency can approach

putting services and programs and resources where

the youth are actually going and not trying to get them

into your door but to just meet them where they're at,

where their interests, passions, and cultures are.

(Christina) So, Amanda,

I really like that example because I think it also,

I mean, it does that and so much more, right,

in the sense that it also connects the dots of, like,

when we're looking at mental health promotion,

when we're looking at promoting health and wellness

and this idea that, you know, mental wellness is,

you know, something that we're all aiming for,

you know, and how engaging in exercise or how engaging

in the arts or how engaging in, like, these other activities

can be one of the kind of coping mechanisms

or kind of stress reduction techniques or--

there's a lot more I could say about it but just this idea that it's like--

that mental health and wellness is not isolated to one table,

but that it really comes up on probably the majority of tables

in this scenario and letting people know

that it is kind of like in addition to being really awesomely fun,

it's actually positive for your mental health in these different ways.

(Amanda) Right, right.

(Christina) So it seems like we covered

a number of points under engagement.

Were there other pieces that you wanted to make sure, Amanda,

that we addressed, or should I kind of briefly check in

with folks about the tools that we have available in this area?

(Amanda) I think we covered a lot,

and we gave some examples.

Let's check in with folks to see where we're at

and go on from there.

(Christina) Okay, well,

I wanted to remind folks-- I'm not sure,

the Now Is The Time TA Center has at a number of different events

been sharing this resource called "Coping Cards,"

which are literally like a deck of cards on a key ring

that provide different strategies for coping with

kind of different scenarios.

So anything from around, like, stress, anxiety, depression,

eating disorders, and so they're just kind of like a quick

handy resource that we've been disseminating for folks,

and we're actually thinking about adapting some of the tools

around engagement into the new version of the deck.

So we've had the Coping Cards around for a couple of years,

and we're thinking it's time to augment the deck

with some additional resources, and one of them has to do

with just kind of these simple activities on building engagement

and trust with other people, you know.

So, obviously, here they're in the context of providers or adult allies

or others kind of engaging youth and young adults

through these kind of specific trust-building strategies.

But again, I think, you know, just as easily youth

and young adult peers could be sharing these decks

with each other in terms of some of our grantees

who are doing peer support models that they could really be

a powerful resource and so, you know,

if folks either now or separately kind of wanna give feedback

on whether that's a good idea or not,

we're just kind of toying around with it but, you know,

it does seem like there are such kind of straightforward things

that folks could easily be reminded to do through kind of a new deck

of cards that's about engagement and trust.

And again, it's so important to building that ongoing relationship.

And I wanted to point out before we move forward from here that

that ongoing relationship may or may not be with you personally

or a member of your staff or a colleague but just this idea

that we are kind of going back to the earlier impetus

or the values behind this session where it's this kind of seamless

network of services and supports for young people.

And I feel like we each play a role in building that,

not only in terms of how long we have the opportunity to intersect,

engage with a youth or young adult but the fact that we are

kind of one point in a fabric of supports and services

that they will experience over the short term

or over the long term, like, I wanna make sure

that I'm holding up my end of things.

And certainly kind of hold other folks on, you know,

more broadly in the field, in the collective,

in the Now Is The Time family, you know,

however you wanna think about it, you know,

that we're all accountable for making sure that we are approaching our

young people with integrity, with authenticity,

and making sure that their experience of seeking,

accessing, and engaging in supports and services is a positive

and kind of that we're doing no harm, essentially,

and that we're--they're creating a positive experience

so that over their lifetime they see seeking care

and engaging in care as something that's value-added

and an essential part of their wellness.

So again, I wanna make sure that we do have some time

for open dialogue before we wrap up the session,

so, Amanda, I'm gonna suggest that we go ahead

and move forward and talk about,

you know, kind of how both identity and then access to services

and help-seeking strategies contributes to trust and empowerment.

(Amanda) Yeah, absolutely,

and quick question before we move on,

you know, just to go off what you were saying about Coping Cards.

We do have a question from one of the audience members, Tammy,

thank you for your question.

She's asking, "Do we have permission to reproduce

"the Coping Cards to provide them for all of our school counselors

and social workers or give them for their use?"

(Christina) Oh, yeah.

Yeah, Tammy, please do. And if you need--yes.

The short answer's yes and the slightly longer answer is

if you wanna follow up to--with an email to us, we can actually

provide you with the template and the printer instructions

if you wanna take those to production.

So we're happy to provide that resource.

(Amanda) Any other questions

from folks about the Coping Cards as we move on?

Okay, good, we answered Tammy's question.

Thank you for your question, Tammy,

and I hope it answered other folks's questions too.

Okay, well, yeah, and so just looking at this slide now,

you see the same framework we've sort of been touching on

throughout this webinar but now you see the arrows coming

from both the left side of identity and the right side of access

and help-seeking.

And the reason we sort of denoted that in that way is

that we're really just trying to make the point here that youth

and young adults may come-- may access from by way of how

they identify or in terms of where they're accessing support and services.

And how do we align the supportive service with

the young person's identity so it feels like a partnership

between identity and the service being provided?

And again, just how do we meet these young folks

where they're at.

And sometimes doing that requires us to put on our youth

and young adult hats as well and relating and using empathy

to engage them in what support that they may need,

and as Christina said, in the sort of relationship

that's ongoing and always evolving

and adapting to the needs of that youth and the culture

in a broader sense as well.

And so when we think about the individual and where they are at

and how we can provide tools that align and sort of allow them

to be successful as a leader in their own care.

And it's interesting because, you know,

when we put on our youth hat,

that might look different for all of us, right,

depending on what generation and cohort that we grew up in.

And arguably in this 21st century information age, Google

and the internet is often considered the "modern first responder," right?

When folks are going through something, whether it's,

you know, a feeling or they're hearing voices

or they're feeling depressed or they're feeling lonely or--

they might Google it.

They might put that into Google and say, "I'm feeling lonely.

"I'm hearing voices. I'm feeling lost.

I'm feeling depressed."

And they're gonna get a myriad of resources and support

that are popping up on Google and then the young person

is trying to reconcile and negotiate between all those different

supportive services and tools that are being offered in terms

of how they can get help or how they can at least relate

with a particular community of thought or group or agency

that may be able to confirm or affirm

what that young person is feeling.

And so that question then becomes for our agencies

and for the networks that you're working with as far as

how do we maintain up-to-date, user-friendly culture online

as well as in person?

And how do those two align with each other?

If I was to walk through your door at your agency,

what would it feel like and then if I was to enter

through the site-page on your website,

what would that feel like?

And how do we create these different tools online,

in person, to feel like a welcoming, user-friendly, open environment?

And how do we align that customer service, if you will,

to be that first impression that will help sustain

and engage that trust or that individual.

And so with that said, I think that really feeds

into the next tool that we want to showcase

for you real quick that Christina can go over with us

as far as tools that we can use in support

to ensure that our tools are up to date and user friendly,

both online and in person as well.

(Christina) So, Amanda,

I am really appreciative of you making that point

and I was--I actually, like, just got lost in thought

about the fact that you kind of used the term that oftentimes

the internet is the "first responder", you know,

that that's what youth are using as kind of like

the first place that they go, was, I thought,

so articulate and also, like, jarring for me to hear.

And so, you know, I kind of--it makes me think about, like,

given how much of a Luddite that I am with technology

and, like, the fact that I'm not quite onboard, like,

with the whole social media thing, okay, like,

we can make jokes about that til' the cows come home,

but the point is, like, it actually is creating, like,

that much more distance between me and me being able to provide help

to the people I wanna make sure get the help that they need.

And so, you know, this idea of, "Oh my gosh," you know,

even if I don't really wanna be on Facebook, like,

how can I make sure that I am meeting young people where they are

and able to create points of access

that are appealing and that are responsive

and, you know, some of the tools that we have in the toolkit

are really kind of these helpful, bottom line, like,

here's what's gotta be on your website and here's what

not to bother with on your website, kinds of tools.

But I also think, like, it just underscores

and there's also some resources around this,

the idea that, like, even though I have an Instagram account now,

the fact that I can't figure out how to get people to not follow me,

that I don't want following me is, like,

I'm not moving at light speed here in my catching up.

And so, like, I feel like what I need is a real strategy,

you know, is to make sure that I'm using all the tools

that I can and engaging in all of the strategies

that I can to make sure that if it's not gonna be me directly

who's accountable that at least I have somebody that I can count on

to make sure that I'm getting kind of the up-to-date information

for what's gonna make it most useful and most user-friendly

to the youth and young people that I wanna make sure are getting,

you know, supports and are feeling safe

and are getting access to things that they need to be safe and to be well

and so, you know, again I think it's so articulate the way

that you framed it in terms of not only kind of what's the reality of the situation

but what's our accountability in this equation.

(Amanda) You know, what you were saying,

Christina, about maybe not being lightning-speed fast at Instagram

or Facebook and I think--

I appreciate your humility with that, because while you might not know

how to, you know, at lightning speed update a post

or unfollow or follow people, I can attest to not being lightning speed

at understanding very quickly what my healthcare access options

might be and so that's where, you know,

folks who have different experience and perspective and expertise,

easily become partners in this work together given

the cohort and cultures that we're inevitably growing up in,

and so I appreciate your humility and that, I think,

is really speaking to the fact that that common denominator

for this whole thing is really partnership.

(Christina) Cheers to that.

So you know, I mean, it's a perfect time in partnership

to say, like, you know, we began this conversation with the idea

of, you know, who are the young people in your community

that you intend--whether you're achieving that or not

is another question but that you're intending to support and serve,

and what practices are you engaged in to make sure

that the perspectives from those communities are integrated

into your work?

And so we do have about 10 minutes left and I think,

you know, again, it would be so valuable to have

some more contributions from folks who are on the line.

And I think, Joanne, I wonder if we could try the unmute all

at this point to see if folks can respond to what resonates with them

about this conversation and kind of where they are with it

in their own experiences in their local communities.

(operator) All guests have been unmuted.

(Christina) Okay, so that means

we can hear you now.

So, what do you think?

Does anybody--do folks wanna share kind of how this

translates to the work that you're doing or how it doesn't

translate to the work that you're doing with young people in your community?

(Courtney) This is Courtney

with [inaudible] School District and I'm--

(Christina) Hi, Courtney.

(Courtney) Hi.

I don't have the opportunity to work directly with students,

but I do work directly with counselors.

And what was going through my mind as you were speaking

and it's a lot of great information, I take a lot of notes here,

was how can we work better with young parents who are battling

with the idea or the concerns they may have with their child

may having or actually having a diagnosis and sometimes

being in denial and refusing services.

So looking at it from that perspective of choice

and identity and how-- what kind of guidance

can a counselor provide our young parents.

But also in terms of our young people who are old enough

to make the choice to take their medication

or not take their medication, to participate in counseling services

or not to participate in counseling services.

Some of the tools that our counselors might be able

to employ when it comes to encouraging young people

to take that step in getting the services that they need

when they're referred to those services.

(Christina) So I definitely think, again,

when we're thinking about communication pathways

and we're thinking about referral pathways,

especially when we have older children or youth,

you know, kind of before we get to the young adult stage,

that making sure that we do have strategies, supports,

and tools for family engagement

and really making sure in some of the same ways

that we were talking about from a youth

and young adult perspective,

making sure that we have all of the facets in place

so that families and caregivers can experience trust and empowerment.

And so I heard you, Courtney, kind of talking a little bit about

how for any variety of reasons, there may be some resistance

from parents when they're considering

whether their child needs additional support

for services and, you know, I think that goes back to, you know,

what Amanda's been talking about in terms of building trust

and empowerment by being really thoughtful and strategic

in creating a space for kind of different cultural or parental identities,

making sure that parents understand kind of

what are their choice points or how do they get information

about the decisions that they can make

and then kind of leveraging that into readiness

or increased readiness towards engagement in services

and, you know, what their experiences might be like

when they do try and access support through services,

whether it be a family or family member or caregiver,

or whether it be a youth and young adult themselves,

that oftentimes that initial point of engagement

or point of access can be a defining moment

in kind of what happens next and whether that young person

is able to get the support or services that would benefit them.

(Courtney) In an effort to be transparent

I actually hung up when I-- I was calling myself trying to mute--

go back on mute so I missed most of your response, so I do apologize.

(Christina) I appreciate your transparency, Courtney.

And basically I was just saying, like, yes, I hear what you're saying.

Like, that a lot of the same points that we have applied

or talked about in the context of youth and young adults

applies the same way to our parents and caregivers.

Did I hear someone else chiming in?

(Evelyn Roberts) Oh, yes.

This is Evelyn Roberts.

I'm from Project Launch, and we actually work with Courtney

and Tammy, and our agency focuses on younger kids.

So the young adult aspect doesn't necessarily pertain to us,

but at the same time, in helping the young adults

speak for themselves they also, you know, sets the tone

for the up and coming, you know, siblings that may be within

our age bracket now, so that they may know how to advocate

for themself when they get older, too,

just by seeing that example.

So I do like that aspect of it.

(Christina) Oh, thank you.

(Amanda) Yeah, I appreciate that you said that, too, because I think that really

is important to underscore here, too, that while we were kind of

focusing on the lens of young adult perspective,

that these values and access points, if you will,

can really--should be applied for any age group, right?

Identity, choice, engagement, access and help-seeking,

hopefully those are values that are throughout

the developmental continuum and not just--

they don't just stop when people un-identify

from being considered young or youth, right?

(Christina) No, absolutely.

What about other folks?

I wonder if there's anybody on the line who wants to contribute

from the young adult perspective or the folks

who are providing supports and services to young adults.

All right, I guess not.

Well, again, you know, we do wanna make sure

that the information that we're able to share with each other

and that the Now Is The Time TA Center

is able to share with you is gonna be valuable to

the work that you're doing, so to the extent that we can help

translate any of the concepts or specific tools

that we talked about today into something that's actionable

for your projects or your efforts, you know,

we continue to be available.

I wondered if there were any other questions that folks might have

for Amanda or with regards to what's in the toolkit

or how it can be accessed or used.

Anything else that we can make sure that we address for you

before we wrap up today?

You guys are making it too easy on us.

So, again, I'm so glad that Amanda and I had the chance to connect

with each of you about this topic, and, you know, it's something

that really, I think, probably not a surprise at this point

that Amanda and I are both passionate about,

and so, again, it's something that we're

really interested in continued conversation on.

So to the extent that we can be a resource so we can connect you

with additional resources to make, you know, the tools and make

the concepts applicable to the work that you're doing,

we're happy to do so and you can contact us through the TA Center.

Amanda, was there anything that you wanted to add

before we wrap up today?

(Amanda) You know, I just really appreciate that

you all came on to learn with us and ask questions

and propose some feedback, and I'm constantly learning,

as I'm sure we all can attest to.

And as Christina said, we're here to support you

in what you're going through from both the youth and young adult lens,

but also, you know, whatever age or cohort your constituents are

and so please feel free to reach out,

offer support and challenges or opportunities you're working with

or if you have any questions, we're here to support you,

and we just thank you for your involvement

and your passion working with us too.

It's always a constant journey and learning experience,

so thank you for your continued investment in this work.

(Christina) And to that end,

I do wanna encourage folks to just take a couple of minutes.

Once we sign off today, you'll have the opportunity

to fill out a feedback form, and as Amanda mentioned,

we are interested in continuing to refine this information

and how we present it.

And so any recommendations or feedback that you can offer

will help us do that.

So please do take a minute to fill out the feedback form.

And again, we do appreciate your time and look forward

to connecting with you on this topic or on other related topics

as we move forward together in our work.

Thanks, everybody. Have a good afternoon.

(Amanda) Thank you, everyone.

Virtual hands in, Go Team!

(Christina) Thanks, Amanda.

All right, bye everybody.

(female) Bye.

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Grand Mom Mom's House...Hurray!

Grand Mom Mom's House...Hurray!

Hi Guys...It's Zoey Again.

I'm just sitting around waiting for Zack

to finish up the last cake at the Bakery

for today and I was wondering

I was thinking...Hmmm??

Maybe I could think of

10 Life Hacks for Kids

So, here we go.

Number 10

Did you know that you can use Baking soda

in a "pinch"

if you need to brush your teeth

or even as deodorant.

Number 9

If you take a 2 Liter bottle of soda

and fill it with only dimes

by the time you reach the top

you'll have almost close to $700!

Number 8

Have you ever had heartburn

and you don't have any of the pills

you could take to get rid of it?

well

you could try a nice tall glass of milk

try that

and if milk doesn't work

try a can of coke.

It works EVERY time

Number 7

Have you ever been sitting around

with your friends and playing

hangman? Want the secret to win?

Use any of these words -

Zephyr, numb, myth or rhythm

they'll never get it!

Do you need a fun website?

try snesfun.com

that way you can play

old nintendo games

snesfun.com

number 5

this is a good one

Have you ever painted your fingernails

and had to wait

5 to 10 minutes for them to dry

well paint your nails,

then spray them with cooking spray

like this

they dry almost instantly

Number 4

Trying to make some homemade paint?

You need 1 cup of salt,

1 cup of flour

and food coloring.

and you'll have great paint...homemade too!

Number 3

Let's play the "haha" game.

Have you and your friends sit around

for a little while

one person says "ha"

another person says "haha"

then another person says "hahaha"

then another person says "hahahaha"

keep going and by the time you reach

number 10

everybody will be rolling on the floor laughing

and with REAL laughter too.

Number 2

Let's say you've got some dry feet

if you put some vaseline on your foot'

and then put a sock over it

go to sleep

when you wake up

you'll have warm, moisturized feet

it works EVERY Time

Uh-Oh...I think Zack is almost done

finishing up with the bakery

...all the cakes that we made today

so let me go ahead and finish up with

Life Hacks for Kids

Number 1

Have you ever gone to McDonalds

and you just don't know what kind of fries

you're gonna get?

the hard, crunchy kind

or the nice soft kind

it's almost like a 50/50 shot.

well...

if you go to McDonalds

and you ask them for fries with NO salt

they have to make a fresh batch

just for YOU!

and then you can put your own salt on them

but it will be nice, and hot

and fresh and just the way you like it.

so the next time you go to McDonalds

roll up or go to the window

and ask them for

french fries with NO salt

they will be perfect every time.

Oh, ok Zack, I am on my way!

Thanks guys!

Remember - Grandmommoms

Like & Subscribe

See You Next Time!

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American Tries READING DUTCH SIGNS in Amsterdam!! - Duration: 9:51.

Hey everyone, Dana here!

And right now I am in Amsterdam for the first ever Vidcon Europe.

Actually, the first ever VidCon outside of the U.S. anywhere.

And while I've been here in Amsterdam, I have seen some signs in Dutch, where I've thought, like,

hmmm I think that maybe I can read that sign or figure out what it says because of

my English and my German skills.

And the same with hearing people speak Dutch.

Sometimes I've thought, like, I think I heard a few words in there that I know.

So today we're gonna go to VidCon and play a little game that I like to call

What The Futch Is That Dutch?

Mr. German Man has found me a very tricky sign or two of them for my first attempt at

this game.

I have no idea.

Well, I see in this, in the yellow one, the word "weg."

W-E-G, like the German word "away."

This one, I don't know how to say this.

V-R-I-J-H...I don't...Vrrriihhh. No.

I don't know how to say this, and I have no idea what that could mean.

Okay, so in this sign I notice a few street names, and that I can tell because it seems

to be the same as in German: "Str." for street.

For "Strasse" in German or whatever it is in Dutch.

But that means street.

So there's two streets in there.

The first word we have "Kruising."

I think that's like the English word "cruising."

So maybe, ah, driving on that street is "aufgesloten."

I would say...afgesloten, afgesloten.

So maybe that's like, would be the German, "af" is like "ab," and "ge," you know so it's like,

it's saying what has happened to this street.

So maybe it's closed.

Perhaps that could be "afgesloten" is closed.

And bereikbaar...I'm thinking this B-A-A-R is like the German "bar."

I would say it's useable.

Like this other, the first street is closed.

Driving, "kruising," driving on the first street is closed.

But this other street is available.

Did I get it right?

I think I can really figure out a lot of the stuff here.

So "verboden" that would be like the German "verboten" I guess.

Not allowed. "Toegang." Maybe that's like toe in English.

So you're not allowed to go in.

Ah, I don't know what this means.

You're not allowed to go in.

Ah, "melden bij," so maybe that's like the German, so maybe you need to contact, ah,

I don't know what this is.

Maybe the landlord or something?

And then "betreden," so maybe "betreten."

"Terrein op eigen risico."

Okay so, you go in at your own risk.

I think I got it there.

So you're not allowed to go in...?

You have to contact something.

And then going in at your own risk.

That kind of confuses me.

You're not allowed to go in.

I guess you're not allowed to go in, but then you contact, then you're allowed to go in.

But still it's at your own risk.

I can help you. - Okay. "Voor onbevoegen." -Yeah? What is that, maybe?

"Bevogen." - Yeah. - "Befugt." - Okay, I still... -"Anbefugt." - I don't know that word in German. - German "anbefugt."

I don't know.

It's for, um, non-allowed people that have no right to be there.

Okay, so people who aren't allowed to be there are not allowed to be there.

People who are allowed to be there should contact - Maybe. - whoever this is.

But anyway, then you enter at your own risk. - Yes. - I think together we got it.

That gets a high five. Nice.

Alright, I think I've got this one even without the little pictures.

So I think it says "allen," or closest to that in Dutch pronunciation.

So everyone before the lines...um, you have...no.

I think I, no.

No, I don't think I got it.

I was gonna say you have to have...no actually I don't know what that would possibly mean.

Okay I go with "Alleen voor opladen elektrische voertuigen."

I think it's in German "Allein für, um, zum auf...alleine zum aufladen von elektrischen Fahrzeugen."

Oh. - The parking spaces here. - Yeah. - So, only for

charging electrical vehicles. - Okay. That makes sense.

"Denk aan onze kindern."

So I think that's "think about our kids."

You know, drive slowly.

So now I'm with Hilde. - Hi.

You're going to say a sentence for me, right? In Dutch. - Yes, yes.

And I'm gonna see if I can figure it out.

[Something in Dutch] - I heard YouTube in there.

And "Ik." I think that's something like "ich."

So that's like "I." Okay, one more time maybe.

[Something in Dutch] - I think I heard something about "film" at the end? - Uh-huh.

I'm filming a YouTube video! - No. - No. Ah, I don't know. Okay, I can't get it. What is it?

It's "I like to watch YouTube videos."

Say it one more time a little bit slower let's see if I can...- [Something in Dutch] - Okay.

Now I hear it. Like "kijk" is "like." Or no? - "Kijk" is "watch."

Oh, watch! You stumped me.

What's your name? - Roland. - Roland? - Yes.

Okay, and you're going to also give me a Dutch sentence. - I, yeah. - Okay. What is it?

[Something in Dutch] - Again? - [Something in Dutch]

I think, "I have to ask my mom." I heard "moeder."

Right, is that... - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - "mom"? And "vragen" is that like "fragen"?

Is that "to ask"? - Yeah. And what was the beginning part?

"Even." - "Even." Like, is that like "eben" in German? - Ah, yeah. - Like, right soon. Okay, what does it mean?

What did you say?

"I have to ask my mom," basically. - Hey, so I got it! - Yeah, you got it. - Cool!

I got one! - It's from a pretty well known Dutch song.

Oh really? - Yeah. - Okay, which song? - "Even Aan Mijn Moeder Vragen." - Okay.

Okay, so I found another person who speaks Dutch!

Yeah! - I'm with Catherine now.

And what is your channel?

What do you make videos about?

Uh, my channel name is Styling with Cath.

And, um, it's a mix, um, actually because I do beauty, fashion, also vlog a lot.

And I do some challenges, and I also give advice.

So it's a mix of everything.

And what Dutch sentence do you have for me?

Okay, it goes like this: [Something in Dutch] - Okay, so I think the first one was "hello."

Yeah. - And say the next one again. - [Something in Dutch] - What's up?

Yeah, it can be. But, yeah. - So what is it? What is it actually? - Um, how are you?

How are you? Okay.

Okay, so I don't think that sounded anything - No. - like German or English.

Okay, I have just come across this really awesome thing.

And it's got words written on it.

So first of all, I can already tell just by looking at this, it's just outside of a park

area and so I guess this is where people can put any things that they have found lost and

found items from in the park or around this area.

And, alright, let's try this.

"Vin...ah, vind je verloren voorwerp terug."

Or something like that.

But I definitely see one that I recognize.

"Verloren."

"Lost."

And that would make sense since this is clearly a place to put lost items.

What the rest of those words mean...I don't know.

I actually have no idea what "uitgezonderd" says.

I don't know, but I'm gonna put Mr. German Man on and maybe he can crack the code.

Okay, so, let's try it.

"Uitgezonderd."

I think that it, it...there's some clues here.

Um, I think this is a one-way street sign.

And there's a bicycle on it and a moped.

And "uitgezonderd," I would say in German "ausgesondert, ausgegrenzt."

So I would deduct from it that the bike and the moped are excluded from the rule of the

one-way street. So that they can go both ways. Am I right?

So my question for you is: Could you read these signs?

Do you know what they said or what the people that I talked to said?

And what language should I try next?

Please let me know in the comments below.

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there's something about the declaration

of another individual over our life

that can make a huge difference in how we see ourselves

or who how we go forward so

parents I hope you're starting to

declare over your children not who they are

but who you see them becoming

mighty warriors for God

men and women with a destiny a call and a future in their life

speak it over your children

call out their destiny

wake up the warrior in them

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BotCast Episode 12 feat. Dia Mirza - Books That Talk About Nature Part 2 - Duration: 20:06.

Sharin: so if there was someone trying to discover reading through nature, or books

that marry the theme of nature and literature, what would you recommend be there starting point

Dia: I would say start with something as simple as this by Shel SIlverstein, it's called the

Giving Tree.

It's a picture book, it's very simple.

It's something a child can read and a grown up can read.

I want more grown ups to read it because that the lessons in this book are unbelievable.

Dia: i think they would come in great use even in adult life.

Like what's really beautiful about this book is that there is a tree and the tree

is best friends with a little boy.

And the little boy spends a lot of time with the tree while he is a boy.

Swings from the branches, eats it's apples, they play hide go seek.

And then the boy gets older and his visits to the tree become infrequent.

And it's a story about a relationship between the tree and the boy and how the tree's

life purpose is to give this boy happiness.

Sharin: wow, so poignant, so lovely Dia: it's beautiful, it's one of the simples

stories ever written but it's so beautiful.

Sharin: that's nice

Dia: it's my favourite book to point anybody towards.

infact I actually want to make a film on this.

Like a short animated, because i think more people now like to watch stuff

so maybe it will help people get through it.

But it's special.

It's really really special.

Sharin: so i infact read a book recently by Helen Macdonald called H is for Hawk.

It's really...so you were talking about geographical boundaries not existing.

So Helen macdonald's father was an award winning photojournalist

and he made a career

out of shooting hawks.

And her father passed away and as a way of grieving his absence, she decides to adopt

a hawk and train that hawk.

So when she lived on the outskirts of Cambridge, in the countryside, she would just let the

hawk free but also train it to keep coming back.

And at some point she starts associating her vision with the Hawk's vision.

Whatever he was flying through, all the cities and the villages started merging.

She did it over three years because goshawk, the kind of hawk she was training was the

most difficult hawk to train.

They are just naturally very wild beings.

They don't like to answer to somebody asking them to do something, which is like a lot

of us.

So the kind of stuff the hawk saw, she kind of imagined herself seeing.

And it spans many seasons, so she talks about, earth, water, wind, fire, also ice.

Anuya: not heart?

Sharin: oh my god

Anuya: I've already made this joke before,

but you even said it in the same order!

You wanted me to say heart!

Sharin: this is Captain Planet, strangely, ironically loved.

Anuya: but we should talk about captain planet.

Watching that show as kids, and it really did create a regard in me for the environment.

You've seen Captain Planet?

Dia: no Anuya: Cartoon Network, all 90s kids.

Dia: I didn't grow up watching...

Anuya: TV?

Sharin: well done Anuya: cause she was playing outside.

So me, i had the misfortune of sitting at home and watching lots of cartoons, and one

of the cartoons I watched and loved was Captain Planet.

And the whole message of Captain Planet was to...

Every episode had one lesson about the environment.

His villain was Captain Pollution, like his alter ego.

Dia: nice Anuya: and earth, fire, wind, water, and heart.

So there is this little kid whose superpower is heart bechara, he was bullied by all the

other kids.

Dia: I have never watched it.

Is it available somewhere?I'd love to watch it.

Anuya: DVDs and maybe on youtube yeah, or you know torrents

Anuya: so incidentally you know.

Since we are talking about this, there is a theory that Game of Thrones is one big parable

on Global Warming Dia: could be

Anuya: yeah, ice and fire Dia: i feel like the Batman series is that as well

Anuya: really?

Dia: yeah i think it gives a lot of insight on where the world is headed and what are the fights we are fighting

yeah because the way Gotham city looks, it is really a representation of what we are doing to this planet.

Where we are going as human beings Anuya: the children of the forest, the White

Walkers, so there is a lot of Dia: and one of my favourite movies is Avatar.

It's one of the most beautiful films made on kind of reiterating that message.

That nature is all giving

That you are a part of it.

And we take, take, take everything and never give anything back.

This is what this books is also about.

Sharin: the Giving tree

Anuya: there is this book by a Chilean author

called Isabel Allende, who writes a lot of similar stuff, and she has this book called

CIty of Beasts where this American kid (of course it is an American kid), who goes with

his grandmother who is a writer for a National Geographic like magazine into the Amazon

And they go deeper and deeper looking for this one ancient being so not only do you

discover a lot about the rainforest, but it is a story of indigenous people and their

flora and fauna that they are trying to save

And she uses magic realism with fact of today to showcase what the cost of development is.

And it's young adult, so it can be given to young people and they can start imbibing these things early.

So another really interesting book that gives amazing perspective on the idea of wellbeing

and life, is a book called the Story of Stuff.

It is perhaps, possibly one of the best books written on this world that we inhabit where

we are constantly being told to buy something.

Like somebody selling stuff to you all the time.

Sharin: that is all of American culture Dia: no its even us

Anuya: yeah it's here now Dia: i mean look at it, everything is an advertisement.

Anuya: Story of Stuff can be my life.

It is my life.

Dia: you are telling teenagers that until they get XYZ things they are not cool enough.

You are telling grown ups that until they have the latest mobile, the latest cars.

the latest air conditioner, or the latest whatever, they are not cool enough.

Sharin: it's an economy of peer pressure Anuya: yeah electronic waste is

Dia: and it is an economy created by heightened consumption.

And constantly making people want to consume more.

Anuya: so what is the solution?

What can we, or the people around here, what can we do?

Dia: i can tell you what i do Anuya: tell us what you do

Dia: i feel like my entire life is a dichotomy.

I feel like I'm dealing with a constant state of paradox.

What is this world I'm living in?

Why do I need to have all these things?

So the stuff that I have identified as really, really bad, I have stopped using it as much as possible

Okay, I'll give you an example.

If I would change my car every four years for the sake of status, or the idea that

I need to like oh I am an actor, I have this line of work, I need to seen in a certain way

Those ideas have changed.

Dia: as long as my car works and it's in

good condition, I am not gonna change it.

Yes, it is a diesel engine, and I wish I had an electric car, and I wish electric cars

were priced better in my country but hey I carpool, I will not change my car just for

the sake of change and I will find solutions because I have this brain that is constantly,

actively thinking how to readdress the way I live my life.

So the other things I do, I have replaced all the plastic bottles with glass.

I carry a bottle to work

So even when i'm going for a shoot,

About 6 glass bottles travel with me from home

so I am not using these guys at all.

So that's my way a little bit.

Waste segregation at its source so we don't mix wet and dry waste.

There are so many little things.

I don't know whether that's enough but I do know that when you become actively aware,

then you start seeking out ways.

Like the one thing I really want to change is my sanitary napkin

Anuya: yeah but what are you gonna do?

Dia: we need a sanitary napkin that is biodegradable!

And I don't understand why with all the money in the world and all this innovation,

we can't just make it.

Sharin: one last book I want to talk about, you talked about global warming, I just finished

reading a young adult book yesterday called Love in the Time of Global Warming

Dia: i've heard about this and I wanna get my hands on it

Sharin: it is amazing, so it's basically a tsunami has hit Los Angeles and it's told

from the point of view of one eleven year old survivor who is trying to find a family

but because tsunami has hit, immediately the environment of Los Angeles has shifted to

people who have adapted to live underwater and people who have adapted to live over water.

and there are suddenly giants who are cannibalizing people.

This is like I think, the fact that it's an over exaggeration of what a future could

look like is something we should all be taking seriously as well because I mean our demons

are within us, we are polluting our own environment and we could be the giants who are cannibalizing

people in the end Anuya: I can't think of book but so many

movies have this overriding theme right, there was Intersteller

Dia: absolutely Anuya: then there is, do you guys remember Tera Nova

Terra Nova. you dont remember Tera Nova?

Let's get into the clickbait round before I kill myself

Dia: no no we have to save the world ok?

We will save it Sharin: we are the warriors

Dia: we are the warriors.

Anuya: that makes me very very sad

Sharin: the green crusaders!

So we are just gonna do a quick rapidfire with you.

All about books don't worry, we won't ask about Kareena Kapoor or

Dia: they are all wishing you raid me

Like what is this conversation why are they not

discussing somebody's sex life.

Anuya: correct Dia: or hers

Sharin: like a chain

Anuya: you can discuss my sex life whenever you want

Barbara what?

Dia: cartland.

Shobhaa De, sorry Anuya: we just we have already discussed my

sex life so move on Dia: hey Shobha De is not writing anymore.

Sharin: She is writing columns and getting angry at, i think twitter destroyed her

Anuya: yeah tweeting unfortunate things

Sharin: yeah man Dia: nice ya

Anuya: she fat shamed a policeman Dia: i heard

Anuya: this will go viral Sharin: on this note, clickbait this was clickbait

Anuya: so we'll ask you a bunch of really

quick questions, tell us what are the first things that come to mind okay, everything

is about books, I'll ask one you ask one Sharin: yeah you go first

Anuya: so the world is ending but there is a spaceship coming to save you, you can only

take two books with you, what would they be?

Two books, two whole books Sharin: to survive in the universe

Dia: can I take a blank book?

Like, plain sheets to write on, that would save me.

Umm aah I think I'll take the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Sharin: I love her already, that's it, we are friends now, I love this book, I love Douglas Adams

Anuya: this book keeps coming up in every podcast

Sharin: it is the most amazing book

Dia: it is also one of the most read books in India amongst the reading community.

Do you know how many books people have to sell for it to become a bestseller in India?

Anuya: 2000 Dia: 10,000.

That's nothing Sharin: in a country full of billions, we

can only sell Dia: yeah 10,000 books and you become a bestseller

Anuya: that's what we are trying to remedy with this right now, like that's literally

what we are trying to remedy Sharin: please read guys.

Ride Dia: read!

Anuya: ride Dia: ride too.

We must read and ride

Anuya: but you know what this makes me happy,

im not the only bad joke maker on this botcast.

Ok favourite author 1 Dia: aiyo no ya no no ya

Anuya: ok fine 3 Sharin: no 1

Dia: that's a really impossible question.

It's like asking me what is my favourite movie.

I don't have an answer there is not one. It's impossible.

Ok ok ok ok life defining, life altering book Tuesdays with Morrie

Sharin: ah nice Anuya: Mitch Albom

Dia: Mitch Albom yeah.

I mean he hasn't authored that many books, all of that I know that, that's a book that

can really really shift perspective and do wonderful things

Anuya: okay book that defines you Dia: holy mother

Anuya: rightly said Sharin: well done

Dia: a book that defines me.

Bloody hell, I've never actually actively thought of that, it's a damn good question

Sharin: it's ok, you will try Dia: im trying

Sharin: introspect Anuya: you know for me the problem is that

everytime I think about a book that defines me, the answers I get are like shopaholic

and stuff and then I'm like tu ghar pe baith, kuch kaam mat kar

Yeah she was just talking about consumerism

so which one defines you? You've thought about this?

Sharin: no, I, this is not about me

Dia: no but answer the question I really want to know, I'm very inquisitive

Anuya: I think Hunger Games Sharin: define you

Anuya: which is weird right? But it does.

Sharin: a certain banned book defines me Anuya: you've named band books on this podcast

before, nobody cares if you name banned books, it's okay

Sharin: actually, Satanic Verses defines me Dia: you think?

Sharin: I love that book.

I can read it over and over again a million times over and I will still never be over this book

Anuya: but I also see myself in that conflicted heroine Katniss

Dia: but I see myself in a lot ya, I see myself in a lot of books, I mean, A Thousand Splendid Suns

Anuya: oh I love that book

Sharin: all that suffering Dia: yeah

Anuya: I cried so much Dia: yeah because I feel like if you can go

there, you can go anywhere and feel anything, because my reality is so removed from that,

so removed from that, but if I can feel it in my gut, like inside my being so strongly,

then it represents me.

Sharin: no it is one of those books where you feel ok now the suffering ill end and

there is more and there is more Dia: the Kite Runner did that for me as well.

I mean there are so many books that you just read and you're like.

Wow.

but i don't know if they define me.

Should I say the Secret Garden, for a sweeter definition of me.

Anuya: The Secret Garden yeah Dia: yeah the girl who healed everything through

a little magical garden.

Ok I'll take the Secret Garden.

Happy book, positive book.

Sharin: so continuing with that, what would be your autobiography called

Dia: born free Anuya: no that's taken you can't use it

Dia: The last child in the woods.

That is taken as well Anuya: yeah, didn't you just start the podcast

with this book Dia: the butterfly effect.

Don't tell me now that is also Anuya: ok ok

Dia: I know it's taken, but that's my autobiography yaar

Sharin: I get that the concept of born free is like a concept that seems to resonate a lot with you

Dia: yeah

Sharin: so give her born free na Dia: no give me butterfly effect im happier with it

Sharin: now she wants butterfly effect

Anuya: tarzan

Sharin: you've been warned about these things

Anuya: I didn't make a pun, I just made a joke

Dia: jane was here.

Dia: jane was here. Almost Jane

Anuya: almost jane is a great name.

I think you should write that book.

Dia: almost jane.

The mad max theory Anuya: yeah madmax is actually superb right

Dia: that's exactly what I am talking about.

Good one to leave you with no?

Anuya: so before we melt into puddles Dia: we have already melted into puddles

Anuya: let's, we have come to the end of this botcast

Dia: why is she not perspiring?

Sharin: i don't know Anuya: I don't perspire that much

Dia: like why are we both shining

Anuya: cause I grew up here so

Dia: But this was fun no, it wasn't so bad Sharin: thank you Dia for joining us ya

Dia: a lady from the industry reads and could have a real

Anuya: and talks about things Sharin: and feels things about the environment

Dia: no but we have to change that guys.

This is like a really bullshit perception and I feel very insulted by it not just for

myself but for all the girls and boys in my hood

Sharin: in your hood?

Dia: yeah Anuya: no but also we should all do whatever

we can to save the environment Dia: I am not sure all do but let's not

assume nobody does.

That's what I am saying.

And I don't judge those who don't either.

I really don't and nobody should.

I know you are like, you know champions of book reading and all.

Please read.

You lesser mortals who don't read, you substandard human beings

Anuya: no that's not what we want to do Dia: that is exactly what you do

Sharin: discover new worlds, discover new language

Dia: love it love it learn about it then maybe do it

Anuya: subscribe to our channel Dia: share, like this video, comment and say

nice things about Anuya and Sharin Sharin: and Dia

Dia: no you don't have to be nice to me Sharin: why be nice

Dia: no you don't have to tell them to be

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Basic Gardening Tips for Beginners | How to Prepare a Spring Garden on a Budget in 9 Steps - Duration: 7:08.

Welcome to Basic Gardening Tips for Beginners

In this video, we will teach you how to prepare a spring garden on a budget in 9 steps

If you're a keen gardener when spring arrives, you're probably aware just how easy it is to spend a lot on new plants,

possibly way more than what you'd bargained for.

Yet, if you do a lot of the work yourself,

getting ready for a spring garden can be a wonderful weekly activity from planting to blooming,

and is a pleasant way to welcome in the new season without having to spend a fortune.

Step 01 Start with a budget.

If you know what your budget allowance for the garden is from the very beginning,

you will have something to stick to and if there is anything left over, you can reward yourself with something extra.

If you don't have a budget, you will probably overspend, so don't skip this essential step.

Step 02 Use your own seed.

Keep seeds back from the previous season from flowers and vegetables that grew in your garden.

Allow the seeds to dry (to prevent mildew over winter) and place in separate bags, well labeled.

Store somewhere that is warm and dry over winter.

As spring gets closer, plant the seeds in seedling trays and keep indoors near a window that gets a lot of sunshine.

Water and tend to them regularly and you will get a head start on the new season's plantings.

If you haven't managed to do this from last season, ask your neighbors or family members who garden for spare seeds that they saved from their gardens.

Look for discount days at your local garden center or hardware store to get seeds at a very good price.

Step 03 Strike cuttings.

If you fancy the plants that are growing in someone else's garden, ask if you can take cuttings from them to strike your own.

Many gardeners are very pleased to be asked this and will let you collect a few cuttings.

Botanical gardens often have mid-winter to early spring pruning clear outs in rose gardens.

Phone up to ask when this happening and to see whether members of the public can get cuttings from these tidy-ups

Just avoid picking out anything that is diseased or rotten.

Step 04 Wait until frost season has cleared.

Once the likelihood of frost has cleared, take the seedlings outdoors and continue watering them in their trays.

Do this for a week or two, to help them transition from the indoor environment to the outdoor one.

The budget-conscious gardener won't rush this step, otherwise you'll have to find more seedlings to replace the ones you've lost.

Step 05 Create a garden plan on paper.

In the same way that a shopping list helps you to curtail overspending in the store,

a garden plan helps you to avoid over-purchasing of whims when you go to the garden center.

Draw in the flowers, the vegetables, the ornamentals, the decorations, etc.

that you'd like in your garden this year, in their exact places.

This plan will guide you on buying "just enough" and no more.

And don't forget to take account of plants that you're already growing yourself.

Step 06 Keep an eye on garden sales in catalogs.

When the sales are on, this is an excellent time to buy the garden sale items in bulk.

Naturally, only buy what you will use but have an eye for a good bargain,

including for updating/replacing, and so forth of new garden tools, hoses, netting, and other essentials.

Only buy in bulk if it will be used and is a good price.

Don't go overboard on gimmicky things like plastic garden decorations.

They clutter the garden and may not be made from very good materials.

Put your money toward plants and gardening tools you really need instead.

Step 07 Buy plants that have been reduced due to lack of adequate attention or overstocking.

In some garden centers, there will be a section of plants that haven't been adequately cared for,

or that have not been selling as well as the store owner would like, going for a song.

If you've a green thumb and you can identify the likelihood of successfully salvaging

any of the poorer plants back to health, these finds can make incredible bargains.

Be sure to tend to the weaker plants from the moment you arrive home.

Give them better soil, keep them away from wind and heat to begin with, give them a tidy up and a nutritious feed.

Remember to water them regularly until they start to thrive again.

Spindly, too-tall tomato plants are a true bargain.

Repot them and bury a good bit of the spindly stems.

They will grow roots out of those stems into the new soil level and have a better root ball than the prettier ones that sold for full price.

Step 08 Make your own garden decorations.

Rather than buying decorative items for the garden,

recycle and reuse household items to create new and amazing garden sculptures, feature pieces, water features, etc.

Be as imaginative as you'd like and rope the kids in to help too.

They can have great fun making a dinosaur garden with their toys,

a fairy garden with their fairies, an animal garden for their pets, etc.

Following are some more suggestions for you to make on a budget:

Make your own bird feeder

Create your own mini Zen garden.

Use rhododendrons to make a rhododendron decoration.

Turn a part of your garden into a faerie garden.

Step 09 Keep it simple.

A budget conscious garden is a simple one that is pretty, effective, useful, and pleasant all at once.

If you can't afford a greenhouse to keep tropical flowers, don't aim for that.

Visit the local gardens instead and see theirs and think about how much extra work is involved anyway!

And there is nothing more appealing than a well-weeded, well tended garden, whatever your budget.

Note that some plants are best placed direct into the soil that they will grow in; research each plant's needs first.

Be careful of cheap garden items, from tools to decorations.

They may seem like a bargain but if they break,

they need replacing and they can also become hazards if they break when working with them.

Also, cheap decorations may contain hazardous parts for pets and infants,

and they might be made from toxic paint or other dangerous components that your family and your garden can do without being exposed to.

Wait for the soil temperature to be right.

If you plant too early, the seeds and/or seedlings won't succeed and you'll have wasted your money.

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AND THE FUNCTIONS OF THE

PLACENTA, GIVING PREMATURE

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Get What You Pay For: Tare - Duration: 2:43.

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My name is Tina Butcher.

I work for the Office of Weights and

Measures at the National Institute of Standards and Technology.

Every day thousands of items are sold by weight, volume, and count.

The NIST Office of Weights and Measures works with weights and measures programs

around the country to help ensure that consumers get what they pay for.

And that businesses get paid fairly for the goods and products that they sell.

Items that are sold by weight, often packaged in boxes,

containers, bags, and other packaging material.

Whether they're packed ahead of time or at the time that the consumer purchases them,

that packaging material, or tare, can cost you money.

The heavier the container, the more the tare can cost if it's not deducted.

Most everybody has seen this plastic bag and

twist tie that appears in the produce section when you buy items like apples.

That plastic bag weighs with the twist tie maybe about a hundredth of a pound.

If you're purchasing something like apples that cost about $1.79 a pound,

each time that occurs if the bag is not deducted, it can cost you about $0.02.

That may not seem like a lot, but

every day hundreds of transactions are going on at every store.

If you look at the individual store and

maybe stores that have 200 stores in the chain,

that plastic bag can add up over the course of the year to $1.4 million.

That's $1.4 million of product that consumers are paying for but

aren't getting.

But equally important, if a business properly deducts tare and

they're competing with a business that's not deducting tare, that business

that is deducting is at a competitive disadvantage to the tune of $1.4 million.

So think of the numbers, the next time you go to the grocery store and

you buy an item in a box, a bag, a container.

Anything that you can't consume as part of the product, make sure that it's being

deducted from the weight of the product that you're purchasing.

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