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The purpose of this youth advocacy for mental health day is to provide Cal-HOSA youth an opportunity to engage in conversations about increasing awareness and solutions to youths’ struggles with mental health problems. Overarching topics will be the negative impacts that stigma, trauma, poverty, bullying, discrimination, and other social determinants (risk factors) have on the mental health of youth. Substance use and suicide prevention will also be discussed. Another purpose is to examine and discuss the role that schools play in developing school-defined strategies and solutions that focus on strength models and resilience from within a person and community (protective factors) to overcome risk factors and mental health problems.