Mental Health: Allow lay ppl to befriend students, fund them, prnts apprise school, friends speak up

Mental health is a very serious issue. What happened yesterday at the grand rally with a lab baker 17 years old from a prominent lab family is a cry out call. I don't want to beat around the bush. I don't want to keep you. I want to get right to the point. I'm not a psychologist. I'm not a psychiatrist. I'm not a social worker, but I've been around. I've seen I'm seeing what's going on. I have four points. One is to this teachers and hol administration of yeshivas, not just the kabad, but all over. Open yourself up to allowing lay men, men for men, women for women, to come in and just befriend students in yeshiva just to hang out with them, just to have a coffee, just to have a pizza, just to become confidants. So number one is I'd like to see yeshivas allowing older people just to become confidants of students. It'll go a long way. Number two to people who support yeshiva institutions put your money into this. This is saving lives. I'm not saying you shouldn't give sodaka to the institutions. You should. But make it make a fund. people to get together and the people that come in need to be paid and paid well. Enough of this volunteer schnnering stuff. It don't work. You have to pay people. We have to pay them well. An hour here, an hour there, this yeshiva, that yeshiva, this girl school, that's girl school. This is what we need. Number three, parents including recognize the issues in the sense of if there's a problem and an issue, tell Dan Hullah, don't hold things back. It only leads to no good. And finally, friends and people in the yeshivas, please. Friends, when you smell something, say something. When you realize there's an issue or might be an issue, don't wait for the last moment. We're saving lives. May Hashem help that we should only have good news and this should be the last wakeup call that we need with Msiah's coming and this should be resurrected.