Name: Cydney Klass

Social Justice Group: 2022-2023, Mental Health and Teens (Covid, Access to Mental Health Care/Health Care)

Date of Fieldwork: January 20, 2023

Name of Organization and person (people) with whom you met and their title(s):Ty Beauchamp (MS/HS Psychologist at LREI), Joanne Sciarrone (HS Counselor at LREI), as well as Andy (New intern working with the LREI Mental Health Team)

Type of Fieldwork: Interview

What I did and what I learned about my topic, activism, social justice work or civil and human rights work from this fieldwork?[:: :

On Friday January 20th, 2023, we had the opportunity to have an interview with Ty, Joanne, and Andy. They told us about how they got to where they are today, and many other interesting facts about mental health, and things LREI is doing to help kids who struggle with mental health issues.

Something that I learned and thought was really interesting from our conversation was how many different things can cause you to be tired. For example stress, if you are stressed even when you sleep a lot you will not be rested, in fact the stress causes you to be more tired. So physically you are extremely well rested, but emotionally and mentally you could be exhausted. This seemed especially important to me because a lot of adults tell me that I need to sleep more and that’s why I am always so tired. but in reality the amount I stress (and I stress a lot) is just tiring me out.