Goldie Hawn, Ava DuVernay join coalition to support mental health in California schools
KABC Actress Goldie Hawn, director Ava DuVernay and NBA star Kevin Love are among public figures joining a California school-based effort to tackle youth depression and suicide rates that have been magnified by the pandemic. We have a job to do, and it s a beautiful job, but I don t think we can turn a blind eye to the next generation because they will shape the world, said Hawn, whose own program, MindUP is a partner, which encourages curriculum focused on neuroscience. Know your brain. Why aren t we teaching brain science in the classroom? We ask them to use their brain, we depend on that, and we don t teach them how their brain works, she said.