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  • 60 Minutes: Harmful effects social media can have on adolescents

    60 Minutes: Harmful effects social media can have on adolescents

    This week on 60 Minutes, Sharyn Alfonsi reported on the harmful effects social media can have on adolescents across the U.S. Read their story and watch their segment HERE.

    Families suing social media companies

    Meet the teens lobbying to regulate social me…

    Suing Social Media | Sunday on 60 Minutes

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    Resources for adolescents and family: Sourced and Provided by CBS News.com

    988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline

    The 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline is a US-based suicide prevention network available to anyone in suicidal crisis or emotional distress. More than 200 crisis centers provide 24/7 service via a toll-free hotline. 

    Call 988 or 800-273-TALK (8255)

    If you need to talk, the 988 Lifeline is here.

    Crisis Text Line

    The Crisis Text Line serves people across the United States experiencing any type of crisis and provides free, 24/7 emotional support and information through text message. A live, trained specialist will receive the text and respond, all from a secure online platform.

    Text HOME to 741741

    https://www.crisistextline.org/

    https://www.thetrevorproject.org/get-help/

    Boys Town National Hotline 

    Boys Town helps all children (including girls) and families, regardless of a person’s background, race, or religion. The Boys Town National Hotline is open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year and staffed by specially trained counselors. Parents, teens, and families can find help with a range of issues including abuse, anger, depression, school issues, bullying, caring for a child in crisis, and treating complex health care conditions.

    Spanish-speaking counselors and translation services for more than 100 languages also are available 24 hours a day. The speech- and hearing-impaired can connect through the email address: hotline@boystown.org 

    Call 800-448-3000 or text VOICE to 20121

    https://www.boystown.org/hotline/Pages/default.aspx

    Samaritans 24-Hour Crisis Hotline 

    Confidential 24/7 hotline for the NYC-Metropolitan area that provides non-religious emotional support for those who feel overwhelmed, depressed or in crisis.

    Call 212-673-3000

    https://samaritansnyc.org/24-hour-crisis-hotline/

    National Eating Disorders Helpline

    Support, resources, and treatment options for your or a loved one who is struggling with an eating disorder. Helpline volunteers are trained to help find the support and information you need. 

    Call 800-931-2237

    Monday to Thursday 11am–9pm ET 

    Friday 11am–5pm ET

    Text 800-931-2237

    Monday to Thursday 3pm–6pm ET

    Teen Line 

    Teen Line provides support, resources, and hope to young people through a hotline of professionally trained teen counselors, and outreach programs that de-stigmatize and normalize mental health.

    Call 800-852-8336 

    6pm–10pm PST

    Text TEEN to 839863 

    6pm–9pm PST

    https://www.teenline.org/

    ADDITIONAL RESOURCES FOR SUPPORT

    IMAlive 

    IMAlive is a live online network that uses instant messaging to respond to people in crisis, giving them a safe place to go during moments of crisis and intense emotional pain. All of its volunteers are trained and certified in crisis intervention. 

    https://www.imalive.org/online/

    notOK App

    notOK App® is a free digital panic button to get you immediate support via text, phone call, or GPS location when you’re struggling to reach out. The app notifies your trusted contacts that they’ve been selected as your support group, so when the time comes and you need to reach out, you’ll just have to open the app and press the large, red notOK® button.

    https://www.notokapp.com/

    Active Minds

    Active Minds is a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting mental health, especially among young adults, via peer-to-peer dialogue and interaction.

    Home

    StopBullying.gov 

    StopBullying.gov provides resources for both youth and adults about bullying. It includes information from various government agencies on what bullying is, what cyberbullying is, who is at risk, and how you can prevent and respond to bullying.

    https://www.stopbullying.gov/

    Youth Suicide Warning Signs

    Youth suicide warning signs from the American Association of Suicidology (AAS) and the National Center for the Prevention of Youth Suicide (NCPYS) 

    https://www.youthsuicidewarningsigns.org/youth

    My Life is Worth Living

    My Life is Worth Living is the first animated series to address suicide prevention for teens. Some of the topics it tackles include the fear of rejection for being LGBTQ+, living with depression, substance abuse, and fear of disappointing your parents. 

    Home – First Animated Series on Teen Mental Health

    Society for the Prevention of Teen Suicide 

    The SPTS is dedicated to increasing awareness, saving lives and reducing the stigma of suicide through specialized training programs and resources that empower teens, parents and educational leaders with the skills needed to help youth build a life of resiliency.

    Home

    Log Off

    Log Off is movement dedicated to rethinking social media by youth for youth. The organization is dedicated to lowering social media’s impact on mental health, while teaching teenage users and their parents about how to navigate the vast innerworkings of life on social media. They use an array of mediums, such as a website, podcast, blog, and the Character Ed program to further investigate how social media is affecting its adolescent users worldwide.

    https://www.logoffmovement.org/

    Technically Politics

    Tech(nically) Politics is a teen-led movement that collects youth testimonials relating to social media and the impact on adolescents’ mental health in order to push forward legislation for regulating social media. 

    https://www.technicallypolitics.org/
  • The divided reality of coronavirus

    The divided reality of coronavirus

    Marty Schladen

    by Marty Schladen
    Marty Schladen has been a reporter for decades, working in Indiana, Texas and other places before returning to his native Ohio to work at The Columbus Dispatch in 2017. He’s won state and national journalism awards for investigations into utility regulation, public corruption, the environment, prescription drug spending and other matters.

    Ohioans seem to be living in two realities. Coronavirus cases are soaring, but many refuse to acknowledge it.

    Spoiler alert: President Trump might have something to do with the dissonance.

    Ohio got some of its worse coronavirus news to date on Thursday, with Gov. Mike DeWine reporting yet another record in cases over the past 24 hours — 2,425— along with an alarming increase in hospitalizations due to the disease.

    And as he reported those numbers in his covid press conference, DeWine invited some sobering testimony from a prominent covid sufferer.

    “It’s like getting beaten up from the inside out,” former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said via Zoom, describing his recent bout with coronavirus that landed him in the intensive-care unit for six-and-a-half days.

    Go to the 6:10 minute mark of the news conference to watch the Zoom call between former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and Gov. Mike DeWine. (Video: The Ohio Channel)

    Christie described the isolation of lying alone in a room, communicating with hospital workers by white board through two-inch glass and not knowing whether he’d ever make it out.

    “That combination of physical and psychological stress was pretty unique in my life and pretty extraordinary,” he said. “I can’t emphasize enough: I know how tired everybody is… But as tired as you are of strapping that mask on or going to the sink and washing those hands again, I can tell you, you will take those days in a heartbeat compared to getting this disease.”

    Yet at the same time, people living in a very different reality were expressing themselves on DeWine’s Twitter feed. 

    Some were falsely arguing that the fall spike in cases is proof that wearing masks doesn’t mitigate the spread of the virus. Others were advancing a fringe theory that it would be worth the human cost to pursue herd immunity before a vaccine arrives.

    Still others claimed that the increase in cases was due only to the greater testing that is being done. 

    In response to DeWine’s admonition that Ohioans “pay attention and get serious” about the spike, one skeptic seemed to need the most grisly proof before being convinced that the pandemic was real.

    “Where are all the dead bodies, the mass burials, the pages upon pages of obituaries and the endless funeral processions?” #Trumpster tweeted. “I’m just not seeing it or believing it governor.” 

    The poster’s Twitter handle might have provided a clue as to the source of all the skepticism.

    Asked about some of the myths being posted as fact, DeWine took particular exception to the claim that coronavirus cases are only increasing because there’s more testing.

    “The whole idea that cases are going up solely because we are increasing testing is just nuts,” DeWine said, “It’s not right. The way you can tell it is look at our increase in (the rate of positive results.) Generally, if you go out and test a wider and wider group of people… and testing many people who don’t have symptoms, you would expect that the positivity rate would go down. That is not what has happened.”

    Yet that claim has repeatedly been made by the man DeWine is supporting for president — Donald Trump. Most recently, Trump made it in a “60 Minutes” interview that’s scheduled to air on Sunday. In violation of his agreement with CBS, Trump released an unedited, 37-minute recording of the interview.

    In the recording, Trump rarely allows the reporter, Leslie Stahl, to complete a sentence, but in a Tweet he claimed the opposite.

    “Watch her constant interruptions and anger,” he wrote. “Compare my full, flowing and ‘magnificently brilliant” ‘answers to their ‘Q’s’.”

    One of those “magnificently brilliant” statements was that the only reason covid case counts are spiking is due to increased testing. The same claim DeWine called “nuts.”

    There was a similar gulf between Christie’s comments and those of Trump, his close political ally. 

    Christie described his diligent mask wearing, social distancing and hand washing. And then, for the first time in seven months, he skipped those precautions when he went to the White House to help Trump prepare for the first presidential debate with Democratic nominee Joe Biden.

    Trump has mostly appeared in public without a mask and even mocked Biden during the debate for wearing one.

    “I walked through the gates and found out that I had tested negative at the White House Medical Unit, I took my mask off and I left it off, but only for the time I was inside those gates,” Christie said.

    He later added, “I made a huge mistake by taking that mask off and I hope it’s something no other Americans have to go through.”

    (This column was edited by Loveland Magazine)