JoCo Teen Council Meeting Recap October, 2024
For our third teen council meeting of the 2024-2025 school year, our Teen Council members started off by reflecting on Zero Reasons Why’s Three Pillars:
- Build community support
- Remove the stigma
- Commit to education
After reviewing the report, we broke out into a research icebreaker. The teen council broke out into groups based on their school/school district and researched the policies of their school district around mental health and technology use. After they finished their research, they shared their findings to the group.
- Each school district had some kind of policy on technology use during school hours. However, the policies varied from district to district. Some school districts had more restrictions around technology and some school districts had more permissions around technology.
- Each school district had some form of mental health support and student wellbeing check-ins.
Our teen council also shared their own personal experiences with the technology and mental health policies of their school districts. We followed this with a brief discussion about ways we could use our voices to improve awareness around mental health resources among our peers.
We ended our time together discussing our upcoming October 10 community forum, where we addressed the topic of technology and its multi-faceted affects on teen mental health.