208: Dr. Kathleen Ethier, Director of CDC’s Division for Adolescent and School Health

The Teen Life Coach

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🗓️ 3 April 2023

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Dr. Kathleen Ethier joins me on the podcast this week to talk about the latest Youth Risk Behavior Survey. According to new data from CDC’s Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS), America’s youth are engulfed in a growing wave of sadness and violence, with teen girls and teens who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, and questioning (LGBQ+) experiencing extremely high levels of violence and mental health challenges. While solving this mental health crisis seems overwhelming, one step forward is to focus on the place where 95% of kids spend much of their time – school. But how exactly can schools help to support our teens, and what can we do to further support our schools? https://www.cdc.gov/nchhstp/newsroom/2023/increased-sadness-and-violence-press-release.html Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) / 1) https://www.cdc.gov/healthyyouth/whatworks/what-works-overview.htm 2) Call or text 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline if you are experiencing mental health-related distress or are worried about a loved one who may need crisis support. Need help with anxiety? Online Anxiety Course for Teens: https://www.theteenlifeschool.com/wreck-your-anxiety How to help your teen with anxiety download: https://view.flodesk.com/pages/6318fbccb62cbe7a648d95e2 Coach Sami's website: https://knowingup.com/ Follow me on ig @theteenlifecoach

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Teen Life Coach podcast. I'm Coach Sammy and I am so glad you are here.
0:11.2	The teen years can be fun and exciting, but also filled with self-doubt, insecurities, and lots of frustration.
0:20.6	I am here to help you along your teen
0:23.5	journey and make sure you enjoy your teen years as much as possible. Let's get started.
0:30.2	Hey, you guys, welcome to the podcast this week. I am so happy you guys are here. And we have a
0:37.3	special guest on the podcast this week, Dr. Ethier.
0:41.0	And she is from the CDC.
0:43.1	And she is going to be talking to you guys about what is going on with our teen mental health.
0:50.6	And I am just, I'm so happy she's here.
0:53.3	And Dr. Ethier, will you introduce yourself?
0:56.6	I don't want to mess up your title, actually. I'm going to have you say your official title
1:03.4	and tell us kind of what you're working on. Sure. I'm Kathleen Etheir. I'm the director of the
1:09.7	Division of Adolescent and School Health at the Centers for Disease Control.
1:14.2	And so what we do, we do a couple of things that is meant to really support the health and well-being of young people around the country.
1:21.8	So we collect this youth risk behavior survey data, which is the data that's been in the news for the last
1:28.6	couple of weeks that I hope you've heard about, and that we're kind of here to talk about
1:33.3	today. We also do other kinds of research to try to help solve problems. So if we know from our
1:39.9	data that young people are struggling in particular ways, what kinds of strategies can we develop
1:45.9	to assist to help out? And then the way that we put those strategies in place is we work with
1:53.8	large urban school districts. So many of you may be in some of the school districts we work in
1:59.2	around the country. There's 28 of them.
2:01.6	And we work on things that schools can do to help young people help their health and help their
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