1. El Dorado County Youth Commission
Mental Health
Resources for Youth
El Dorado County Youth Commission

2. Mental health
is the psychological, social and emotional well-being of a person. It affects a person’s ability to think, feel, and act. It helps determine how we make choices, relate to others, and handle everyday demands.
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Parts of mental health…?:
For this year of Youth Commission, we are focusing on phone addiction, substance abuse, domestic violence, and suicide.
Youth with mental health issues are most likely to be unhappy in their community and everyday life. Their life is negatively impacted and it becomes more difficult for someone to help them recover.

3. Suicide Domestic Violence Drugs & Substance Abuse Phone Addiction
School: -Poor concentration, distractibility, inability to retain information, poor peer relationships, aggressive behaviour -More likely to be absent, suspended, or expelled Miss avg. of days, three times higher rates of suspension and expulsion -32% is students with a mental illness don’t continue to a post secondary education class -More likely to engage in high risk behaviours -Drug, alcohol, suicide attempts
Family: -Challenges to parents and siblings Blamed for family distress -Relationship becomes strained Parents unsure of how to help -Parental relationship is challenged Marital discord -Affect family’s relationship with relatives and friends Isolate family from sources of support

4. Phone Addiction (Dane)
Dane: Phone addiction refers to a person’s dependence on their cell phone or other electronic device and relative inability to think or act properly without it. Internet and smartphone addictions are
relevant because they’ve been linked to both emotional and intellectual damage in teens as well as adults. In addition to that, the constant distractions that are caused by a person’s addiction to their phone
have long-term consequences on the brain that can permanently affect the way a person thinks.
Sources-
Phone Addiction (Dane)
Phone addiction refers to a person’s dependence on their cell phone or other electronic device and relative inability to think or act properly without it.
Internet and smartphone addictions have been linked to both emotional and intellectual damage. [source] In addition, the consistent distractions that are caused by phone addiction have long-term consequences on the brain that can permanently affect the way one thinks. [source]
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Other Statistic
In a 100 respondent study at Elon University, 89% of students agree that the quality of a face-to-face conversation decreases when technology is present.
Lake Research Partners designed and administered a nationwide telephone survey from February 16 to March 14, 2016, conducting 1,240 interviews of parents (n=620) and their children (n=620) (between the ages of 12 and 18), both of whom used a mobile device. The data for the parents and children sample were weighted slightly by gender, region, age, and race to reflect attributes of the actual population. The margin of error for this sample is +/- 4.0%.
Felt, L. J. & Robb, M. B. (2016). Technology addiction: Concern, controversy, and finding balance.San Francisco, CA: Common Sense Media.

5. Substance Abuse Substance Abuse
44% of driving fatalities in 2016 involved alcohol.
21% of residents report heavy drinking in report.
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Substance Abuse
Substance abuse is when someone overuses an addictive substance, like drugs and alcohol, which destroys the mental state of the abuser.
The youth’s mental health is destroyed by substance abuse because of withdrawal symptoms and the effect of some drugs on the brain.
Withdrawal symptoms can cause a sufferer of addiction to act erratic and do anything to make them feel normal again, which restricts the person from having a normal life focused on fun things, not “how am I going to get my drugs?”

6. Domestic Violence
40% of females in California have experienced domestic violence at one point in their lives.
Sources:
Domestic violence is the pattern of violent behaviors that is used by one person in a household against another.
Common effects include:
Bruises
Injured wrists
Shakiness
Mental health issues

7. 2011 California Healthy Kids Survey
Percent of students responding that they had “Seriously considered attempting suicide in the past 12 months.”
19% of Grade 9
17% of Grade 11
Suicide is the choice one makes to take their own life in order to escape unbearable emotional pain.
Suicidal thoughts affect the individual’s ability to function or enjoy life.
The decision to kill oneself extends far beyond his or her own shortened lifetime.
Families and friends deal with guilt, anger, and depression as a result of the lost life

8. What We Are Doing to Help
Website
Bookmarks
Peer Mentoring
Welcome Week
Mackaela

10. Bookmarks

11. Thank You

12. Sources
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