REMARKS
Expectations for the hearing and acknowledgments
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Council Member Linda Lee outlines expectations for the hearing, emphasizing the importance of feedback and suggestions for improvement.
- The council looks forward to receiving feedback on the legislation
- Lee expresses support for peer-led initiatives in youth mental health
- The importance of hearing from providers, implementers, and youth is highlighted
- Committee staff and personal staff are thanked for their preparation
Linda Lee
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We are excited to receive feedback on the legislation and learn more about how the bills can help address this ongoing crisis.
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I want to thank the administration, advocates, students, providers, and individuals with lived experience, who have taken the time to join us today.
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And we look forward to hearing from you.
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And, you know, as as I was mentioning to a few of you earlier, this I really look forward to feedback and genuine, you know, feedback on the concerns or any challenges you may think, will impede the implementation.
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Suggestions to improve it would be awesome.
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And I'm a huge supporter of anything that is peer led, especially when it comes to youth.
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And this was something that we heard over and over again because we had several roundtable conversations with youth as we drafted these bills and also, as we move forward with the youth, mental health phase of the road map.
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And so I think it's important to hear from providers, from you all as, ones who would have to be implementing this, as well as from the youth.
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And so, hopefully, it will result in services that we know, will really help out our students, and meet them where they are, especially in the school setting.
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So, I just wanna thank the committee staff who worked to prepare this hearing as well as my own staff.
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And I will now turn it over to the sponsors of the bill.
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Okay.
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That's myself because Rita's not here.
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Sorry.
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I'm just reading the script.
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This is where I have to, like, get off the script.
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Okay.
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So, chair Joseph actually wanted to be here but is stuck in really bad traffic.
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So, she asked me to go ahead and read her statement on her bill, which is introduction 986.
