Education. Additional funding also provided by moutual of america. Retirement products. Thats why were your retirement company. Welcome. Im kim lawton, sitting in for bob abernethy. Thank you for joining us. People of faith around the world continue to pray for a permanent truce between israel and hamas. During this weeks pause in the fighting, groups were able to deliver aid to people in gaza. Many decried the humanitarian impact of the conflict. A Catholic Relief Services official described the situation as quote a complete catastrophe. Many religious leaders continued to protest the large number of civilian casualties. In washington, on tisha bav, the jewish day of mourning, activists held a vigil for those on both sides who were killed. The gathering urged an end to the war. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said hamas should be held accountable for what he called the tragic loss of civilian lives. He said israels actions were justified and proportional. In west africa, aut
Commit suicide, she might as well commit suicide. I think i should have known the police would get involved but i didnt think about it until, you know, i got called in or 4 Police Officers standing there, like, bringing me into a conference room, interrogating me about it. I was just, it was one of the scariest things ive ever had to do. Thats when it hit me, oh, my god, were in trouble. Later we heard from a Police Officer little pieces of information that this was actually happened and he had interviewed several kids at the high school who were in jills class jill had known and compared stories and the information about the picture, the picture had gone to boy a, who sent to boy b who sent it to boy c who posted it on the internet. Their reason for coming was possession of child pornography. Im telling this story primarily to get the idea axraus to other parents and kids that they really need to look past just a reputation, but need to look at their character. If any of those boys ha
Each others advocates. We are brothers and sisters in grief. We know what it feels like to have our children destroyed over things that we love and cherish about them. Right. You referenced again what i referred to often as the appalling silence of good people that, as you recall, were dr. Kings words from the birmingham jail. Ive seen that all the time, people who are i think in their core good people who dont know what to do who tend to send the paradigm that boys will be boys and girls will be girls and were trying to shift that paradigm. And thats why in okahenapen we have an accountability document that calls for. inaudible with the idea, like i said, there is not a state going that we dont have a parent that has a dead child. We are dragging everybody to the party because at what point do we say, we cant even say, kids are dying. Hundreds and hundreds of children have died when this should be the best times of their life and our most sensitive, compassionate, empathetic, our chil
Im telling this story primarily to get the idea axraus to other parents and kids that they really need to look past just a reputation, but need to look at their character. If any of those boys had just pressed delete, we wouldnt be having this conversation. Other parents should be aware that this is happening and its not its all over the world, its not just in our neighborhood. And talk with your children and teens about the subject and get educated on the subject yourself so you can learn how it handle it and really talk to your children about it can be fun, it can be dangerous, these new toys that we have. Wow. All right, id like to introduce the members of our panel today, rob is here, rob, could you come on up, rob neighbor, please join us. Thank you so much for being here. applause . Assembly tom ammiano is here. applause . And our state school chief tom torlichman is here and he is making his way to the podium. Thank you all for being here. Rob, i want to start with you. You are
Children do not pass before their parents. We began to see that the school, the high school in los gatos, led by a very strong, great principled people, brought in an organization to help and after all i should preface in 2009 was a brutal year for los gatos high school, they lost two other students shortly before jill died. The school and principal brought in a Counseling Group called cassie, counseling and support services for youth, embedded counseling. And their job was to change the culture, very much what weve heard today, change the culture to get rid of the stigma of Mental Health and understanding that a lot of these kids feel anxiety and stress, they need someone to talk to. They just dont have the perspective that an adult has. One of the things that struck me was the boys were interviewed, they knew they were in trouble, but i didnt hear them say im sorry, i shouldnt have sent the picture on. The three boys were arrested and they complied with a vuft stis program and part o