Chair Sanders Senate committee on health, education, labor, and pensions will come to order. And were delighted to welcome our panelists who were going to hear from in a few minutes. Let me begin by telling everybody what they already know and that is it is no great secret that in America Today we have a Mental Health crisis and that crisis has been exacerbated by the horrific covid pandemic, which we have experienced. And this is a crisis that has hit all of us, but i think especially the younger generation. In America Today, 40 of parents report being either very or extremely worried that their child is struggling with anxiety or depression. According to a recent survey by the centers for disease control, nearly one out of every three teenagers in america reported that the state of their Mental Health was poor. Two out of every five teenagers felt persistently sad or hopeless. And tragically one out of every five teenagers in our country have seriously considered suicide. How frighte
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