Disability & Mental Health Advocate The Youth Voice Amplified Committee Member Virginia Beach, VA
Shannon O'Hara Wiora will promote awareness on the issue of mental health, primary depression, happening in the autistic community and will share simple skills and tricks on how to serve as advocates towards the neurodivergent youths with depression. To promote Mental Health, it attempts to encourage and increase protective factors and healthy behaviors that can help prevent the on diagnosable mental disorder and reduce risk factors that can lead to the development of a mental disorder. Therefore, it creates a society that involves living conditions and environments that support mental health and allow autistic youths to adopt and maintain healthy lifestyles.