It’s never too early to talk about your child’s mental health. As a parent, taking care of your kid’s mental health is just as important as having a healthy body because it affects the way your child thinks, feels, and acts.
Join PNW Parent Education for a critical conversation on mental health and our kids. Jason Reid, a highly successful CEO, author, and dedicated father of four, will share his story of heartbreak and hope. We’ll also have a mental health expert to provide practical and relevant information on how parents can help promote mental health in their children at an early age. Lastly, a local youth will share their personal experience and the tools that they use to help fight the stigma and symptoms associated with anxiety and depression.
In this important talk, you’ll learn:
- The right questions to ask and the best conversation starters to use with kids about mental health.
- How to identify early signs and symptoms of mental health problems such as anxiety and depression.
- Ways to support your child’s mental health.
About Jason Reid
By all outward appearances and measures, Jason Reid is a highly successful person. He is a CEO who has started numerous businesses, coaches and consults internationally on leadership as well as an author of multiple business books and lighter titles for kids and families. Jason would call himself an entrepreneur by trade and a dad by passion.
In March 2018, this dedicated family man and father of four experienced something no parent should ever face when he received the news that his 14-year-old son, Ryan, died by suicide while Jason and his wife were on vacation. Jason’s seemingly perfect life was shattered, and he was left to confront the truth that while he believed he had been doing everything “right” to raise happy and healthy kids -- he had missed the signs of his son’s secret, silent battle with depression. He failed to ask the right questions and to have the difficult but necessary conversations that may have revealed to him that his son needed help.
In the aftermath of Ryan’s death, Jason discovered two Post-it Notes his son had left where he knew they would be found: One read, “Here’s my username and passwords” and the other read, “Tell my story.” And that is what Jason Reid is doing. He started a foundation, ChooseLife.org, with a mission to move beyond just raising awareness to directing the bold actions necessary to end teen suicide by 2030.
