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What if helping the young people in your life had nothing to do with being an expert? Dr. Megan Smith, a professor at Boise State University and executive director of Communities for Youth, joins the show to talk about what adults can do to support Idaho's youth. The answer starts with understanding upstream prevention.

Megan's team at Communities for Youth developed the Idaho Youth Well-being Survey, which is available free to every school in Idaho through the Idaho Department of Education. We also dig into Idaho's Parental Bill of Rights, which adults have mixed feelings about because it requires parents to opt in. We talk through those different views and how to address them. And we discuss the challenges teens face today, and what it really means to help young people: understanding what they need and meeting them right where they are.

If there's a young person in your life, or you care about the youth in your community, this conversation is for you.

Did You Know: Idaho ranks 48th out of 51 for youth mental health, according to Mental Health America, which means higher rates of mental health challenges and less access to care than almost every other state.

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