Thank you, Madam Chair.
This is going to be, maybe, one of the greatest tests I've ever had. I'm going to try to interview Dr. Stuart Shanker. I am so excited. We have hours and hours to squeeze into six minutes. Dr. Shanker, I believe we can do this.
Dr. Shanker has personally transformed my life and my children's lives. I can tell you, with certainty, that this man knows exactly what we need to do on a child mental health level, as well as an adult mental health level. His research is proven and it works, but it is not a quick fix—nothing is.
Dr. Shanker, I truly believe that if we want to help our children, we have to help the people who deal with our children. Otherwise, we will just keep passing over our own stress—what you were talking about in much of your testimony.
One of the things you speak of is that calm begets calm. If the people who are supposed to care for our children.... This study we are looking at, particularly in FEWO, is about factors contributing to the mental health of our youth and young girls, and how we can help and support that. If calm begets calm, if the people who are supposed to be the calm are not calm and don't have the tools to learn, what impact will that have on our children? How do we get them to be calm?