Unlocking Youth Mental Health: The Power of Warm Lines

Abstract

Meeting the Mental Health Needs of Youths before Crisis: Utilizing Warm lines Time and Date of the Session Attended () Meeting the Mental Health Needs of Youths before Crisis: Utilizing Warm lines Meeting the mental health needs of youths before crisis by utilizing warm-lines proved a very interesting session with great insights on effective approaches to control occurrences of mental illnesses or disorders amongst youths. While it is open that the society has a stigmatizing approach of defining mental illness, this workshop session aimed at clearing the air and enlightening the public on the need to embrace mental health to avoid chances of exposing the delicate mind of youths into mental disabilities. While confirming that mental health of youths and youth adults has been a significant concern across the country presenters also confirms that there have been limited resources of care and treatment to ensure such a vulnerable population remains unexposed to crisis experiences. To this effect, many are the youths and youth adults experiencing mental illness as a failure from the right interventions expected to ensure that mental health remains as a priority amongst humanity. On the other hand, such failures also expose the mentally healthy youths to chances of developing mentally-related disorders especially if they are living within environments that have potentials triggers to mental illnesses like stressful occurrences, living amongst drug addicts, living amongst mentally ill youths among other triggers. It is a session that offers the most effective approaches to address mental illnesses and maintain mental health for the youth through warm-lines ranging from making connections, engaging with others and finding resources that can help youths struggling with mental health from reaching crisis. Warm-lines help increase access to mental health services for young people from unbiased point of view as these victims do not feel offended or criticised while engaging with these helpers that maintain meaningful engagements and connections with these victims relieving them off any stress that would lead them to reach the crisis. With a variety of approaches, warm-lines enable youth express their worries which enhance realisation...