Valley high school students attending mental health summit in Sacramento

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- For students successful the NAMI Club astatine Justin Garza High School, shedding airy connected intelligence wellness is simply a passion.

"It's important to usage your dependable to your vantage erstwhile you person the accidental to speak," says Emily Salas. "Mental wellness is simply a superior cause."

On Wednesday, 31 students from Justin Garza volition beryllium traveling to Sacramento for the yearly NAMI California Conference.

They volition beryllium joining 300 students from crossed the state.

Dozens of different Central Valley students are besides partaking successful the conference.

"Eighty of them are coming from the Fresno area," says NAMI California CEO Jessica Wilson. "It's truthful exciting. We had astir 40 students past twelvemonth from the area. We've doubled that this year."

The yearly symposium is simply a accidental for students to perceive from 1 different and larn what's happening successful different communities.

It besides lets them cognize they're not unsocial successful their struggles and pressures.

"It's a feeling of comfort, astir that determination are different radical that tin subordinate to you, and sympathize with you," says Honey Gill.

Wilson explains it's important to stock antithetic perspectives and person deeper conversations erstwhile it comes to intelligence wellness to assistance interruption the stigma surrounding the topic.

"Everybody successful immoderate mode is impacted by intelligence illness, whether that is idiosyncratic wrong their family, whether it's themselves that struggle, oregon whether it's conscionable idiosyncratic wrong their schoolhouse community," she said. "We don't speech astir it enough."

Students volition besides person an accidental to conscionable and prosecute with authorities leaders.

"I've already thought of my question, but I privation to inquire them wherefore it's truthful hard to person intelligence assistance successful a hard time, due to the fact that I needed assistance and I couldn't person astatine 1 point," says Aleah Musto. "I'm conscionable truly hoping that with talking to them, they tin spot that a accidental needs to happen."

Because anyone tin beryllium the alteration and marque an impact.

"I'm hoping to marque immoderate changes, to marque immoderate question and to truly marque immoderate effect successful our community," Salas said.

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