Can teens lead their own mental health education? Are suicidal feelings and self harm “contagions” that young people shouldn’t talk about? How can mutual aid and peer support solve our youth mental health crisis? Felicity Krueger emerged out of trauma, anxiety, and the challenges of multi-racial adoption to become a leading teen advocate in Kentucky and nationwide. Felicity joins Oryx Cohen and co-hoist Will Hall to discuss her work today, including training youth in Emotional CPR – a peer support response to distress and an alternative to police and pharma. (Transcript here.)
https://www.amazon.com/Healing-Voices-PJ-Moynihan/dp/B0821RFTJY
https://kypartnership.org/ky-youth-m-o-v-e
www.power2u.org
www.emotional-cpr.org
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