crisis late last year, Murthy is now participating in a two-day conference called the Youth Mental Wellness Now! Summit, hosted by The California Endowment.
U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy delivers remarks after a shipment of infant formula, sent in through Operation Fly Formula, arrived at Dulles International Airport in Dulles, Virginia, on May 25, 2022.They will join California-based youth leaders Ja'Nell Gore from South Kern Sol whose parent company is YR Media, and Xochitil Larios from Communities United for Restorative Youth Justice in a fireside chat with the surgeon general.
"We wanted young people center stage," said Dr. Bob Ross, CEO of The California Endowment. "We wanted to make sure that any go-forward strategy for investing in access to mental health services and optimizing the mental health and well-being of young people would be informed with young people as the experts, and additionally, having important and key adult allies more as listeners than talkers.
"Often young people across California have been showing up and trying to address these issues for decades," she said. "It's actually an opportunity to connect policy and change with actual voices on the ground, and young people who were championing, you know, the issues in their communities while also still being extremely under-resourced."
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Look at who they are talking to...actors and activists in California. I guess you have to address the problem where it is most prevalent.