{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://emmer.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/emmer-hosts-youth-mental-health-roundtable", "Emmer Hosts Youth Mental Health Roundtable", "2023-05-19", "2023", "2023-05", "Republican", "House", "MN", "Tom Emmer", "E000294", "emmer.house.gov", "emmer", "https://emmer.house.gov/media-center/press-releases", "scraper", "Victoria, M.N. \u2013 Today, Congressman Tom Emmer (MN-06) hosted a roundtable with eight mental health providers and advocates to discuss the mental health crisis impacting Minnesota\u2019s children and young adults.\n\n\u201cCaring for our kids\u2019 mental health has become more urgent than ever before. If not addressed properly, will lead to mental health struggles as adults,\u201d Emmer said.\n\n\u201cBetween the long-term effects from COVID lockdowns, like isolation and developmental delays, and the creeping threat of social media platforms like TikTok, it is especially important to bring our community together to discuss solutions to this crisis,\u201d Emmer concluded.\n\nYoung people have been especially vulnerable to mental health concerns. A survey published in February by the CDC shows that in 2021, 30 percent of teenage girls reported seriously considered suicide. Additionally, they found that 42 percent of high school students reported experiencing persistent feelings of sadness or hopelessness over the past year, a fifty percent increase from 2011. Earlier this year, Surgeon General Vivek Murthy called young people\u2019s mental health challenges the \u201ccrisis of our time.\u201d\n\nEmmer has been a longtime advocate for youth mental health. Last year, he sent a letter to Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona asking for more information on the coordination, funding and implementation of mental health programs in schools. Emmer also co-sponsored the Parents Bill of Rights Act, legislation designed to create transparency in the classroom and give parents a voice in their children\u2019s education. The Parents Bill of Rights Act passed the House of Representatives with Emmer\u2019s support in March.\n\nThe roundtable was attended by representatives from Gillette Children\u2019s Specialty Healthcare, Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation, Health Partners, Centracare, Nexus Family Health and Sophie\u2019s Squad.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-07T23:55:44Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://emmer.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/emmer-hosts-youth-mental-health-roundtable"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.0952998418360949, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}