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Nomination of a u. S. District judge for illinois. We take you live to the floor of the senate here on cspan2. Under the previous order, all postcloture time has expired. The question is on the nomination. Is there a sufficient second . There appears to be. The clerk will call the roll. Vote vote vote ask l vote vote vote the presiding officer on this vote, the yeas are 53, the nays are 45, and the nomination is confirmed. Under the previous order, the motion to reconsider is considered made and laid upon the table, and the president will be immediately notified of the senates actions. Ms. Sta...

Peertopeer interventions. Can you talk to us a little bit, and how does that work . There are a variety of ways that we can utilize the information, the expertise of peers to help each other. Theres peer mentoring, theres peer mediation, therere a variety of Different Things that we can do. With peer mediation, we work with youth to help each other resolve conflict, which is a tremendously useful thing in this day and age because there are so many opportunities for youth to be in conflict, not just in person now, but digitally. We want to give them as many ways to resolve those conflicts as po...

To allow us to identify patients before they really have reached these endstage processes in their disease. And so, bringing these prevention techniques and early identification techniques to the residents, i feel, will only improve the health care of patients long term. So kristen, we had mentioned before the whole issue of peertopeer interventions. Can you talk to us a little bit, and how does that work . There are a variety of ways that we can utilize the information, the expertise of peers to help each other. Theres peer mentoring, theres peer mediation, therere a variety of Different Thin...

After school tutoring, life skills, and so on. We help kids finish school, get out of gangs, stop using drugs, and graduates of that program we are hiringpaid positionshiring as peer mentors, so they can help the new members coming in get acclimated. So, theyre peer recovery young people. Correct. Well, thats excellent. Thats excellent. Does that mirror anything were doing in the Mental Health side, gail . Well, i couldnt help but, first of all, applaud you for the work youre doing. And also to think about our Garrett Lee Smith Youth Suicide Prevention Program has a variety of facets, and one ...

Help . We could hone in on that question and see what the federal government can do to improve our ability to determine who needs help and our ability to identify the person or agency whose job it is to provide the help, and then we will have provided some service. It helps to put a face on who needs help. As a former governor, i look at things from my background and perspective, as i know most of us do. About 22 of tennesseeans reported having a Mental Illness last year. That is more than 1 Million People. This is according to our state department of Mental Health. About 5 had a severe Mental...