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Over the course of this week, each team member will individually be creating a list of questions and discussion points to address with teachers, educators, administrators, students and friends on the topic of education around teen depression and anxiety. We are also compiling lists of specific people we can contact in order to discuss these questions. Next week we will combine our lists of questions and contacts, assign tasks to each group member and begin making contact with these people. We really want to find out from the student and teacher population what they think would be most beneficial to them. This will give us more direction on where to focus our energy moving forward.  -Jason Utley

Elana McGaughy Post #1

Elana McGaughy: The general idea and purpose of our group is to look at teenage depression and anxiety within the high school setting and the current education that is given around these topics. We will begin by talking to high school teachers, educators and friends to find out what information is given, whether it was useful and what information is lacking. Many of our group members come from a residential background where clients are receiving the best care for such issues, but we would like to bring more education to the surrounding communities. In the future we would like to provide some sort of presentation looking at the statistics of anxiety and depression as well as what signs and symptoms to look for and how to help your friends.