Young people are sending a clear signal of distress. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, nearly every indicator of mental health challenge among high school students increased from 2011 to 2021. In this Askwith Education Forum, we’ll gather together to ask how community leaders, educators, and families can make sense of — and respond to — the crisis in front of us. With experts who look deeply at teen wellness from a variety of angles, we’ll offer a new set of responses and identify areas of hopeful intervention amid this sobering reality. Guests Include: Linda Charmaraman Director, Youth, Media & Wellbeing Research Lab at the Wellesley Centers for Women, Wellesley College Lisa Damour Clinical psychologist, author of The Emotional Lives of Teenagers and two other New York Times bestsellers, and regular contributor to The New York Times and CBS News Alisha Moreland-Capuia Founder and Director, Institute for Trauma-Informed Systems Change at McLean/Harvard; Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School, and Clinical Associate Professor, Oregon Health and Sciences University Richard Weissbourd Senior Lecturer, Harvard Graduate School of Education and Harvard Kennedy School; Director, Making Caring Common, HGSE Host Josephine Kim Senior Lecturer on Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education -- Harvard Graduate School of Education Website: http://www.gse.harvard.edu/ Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/harvardeducation/ Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/HarvardEducation/ Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/hgse Since its founding in 1920, the Harvard Graduate School of Education has been training leaders to transform education in the United States and around the globe. Today, our faculty, students, and alumni are studying and solving the most critical challenges facing education: student assessment, the achievement gap, urban education, and teacher shortages, to name just a few. Our work is shaping how people teach, learn, and lead in schools and colleges as well as in after-school programs, high-tech companies, and international organizations. The HGSE community is pushing the frontiers of education, and the effects of our entrepreneurship are improving the world.