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A new way to help young people with their mental health | Tom Osborn

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Health & Fitness, Fitness, Shoshana Ungerleider, Medicine, How To Be Healthier, Ted Shoshana, Ted Talks Health

4.21.5K Ratings

🗓️ 1 March 2022

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

TED Fellow Tom Osborn wants more young people to have access to the mental health support they need. With the Shamiri Institute, he and his team are training 18- to 22-year-olds to deliver evidence-based mental health care to their peers in Kenya -- which has only two clinicians for every million people. Hear how their community-first, youth-oriented model could become a template to help kids across the world lead successful, independent lives.

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0:00.0

Ted Audio Collective

0:07.2

This is Ted Health.

0:08.2

I'm your host, Dr. Shoshana Ungerleiter.

0:12.0

Mental health professionals are in short supply in the United States, and in other countries,

0:16.6

making these essential services even less accessible, if at all.

0:20.4

With nearly half of Kenyan adolescents struggling with mental health problems, Tom Osborne is

0:25.0

a mental health innovator, and deems this shortage in care of public health crisis.

0:30.1

In his Ted Monterey talk from 2021, he shares how peer support is becoming a viable option

0:36.0

for nurturing the mental well-being of young people.

0:42.6

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0:43.9

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1:01.9

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1:04.6

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1:10.6

Around the world, and especially in low resource countries, they're my home country of Kenyan.

1:15.5

Mental health problems prevent young people from living independent and successful lives.

1:22.0

What's one on raising a small sugar can farm?

1:25.0

Some of my early memories are also my younger brother and I walking around and pretending

1:30.0

that we aren't the sugar can.

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