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{ timecode: 1, handler: 'blob', id: 1, data: {text: 'JOE ARMSTRONG: Good morning. I’m Joe Armstrong, chair of NBCSL Health Committee, along with vice-chair, Brenda Clack, also vice-chair, Usie Richards of the Virgin Islands. It is an honor to call '}},
{ timecode: 17, handler: 'blob', id: 2, data: {text: 'to order the 15th Annual Mental Health Conference, hosted by the National Black Caucus of State Legislators, and the Indiana Legislative Black Caucus. This conference is supported by a generous grant '}},
{ timecode: 34, handler: 'blob', id: 3, data: {text: 'from Eli Lilly and Company. We want you to fill out your evaluation forms that are in tab 3 in your notebook this morning. We would like your input. This is a dialogue. Our theme is very basic, it is '}},
{ timecode: 54, handler: 'blob', id: 4, data: {text: 'Black America’s Dialogue on Mental Health, and the purpose of this conference is to educate state policy leadership, health care professionals, and the general public about mental health in the '}},
{ timecode: 70, handler: 'blob', id: 5, data: {text: 'African-American community, and to reduce the cultural stigmas associated with it. This year, our conference has a different look. Through the advances of technology, we are currently broadcasting and '}},
{ timecode: 87, handler: 'blob', id: 6, data: {text: 'simulcasting via satellite to Miami, Florida and Detroit, Michigan. This conference is also being broadcast live to the public via the internet. You can access it by going to NBCSL.org, clicking on '}},
{ timecode: 107, handler: 'blob', id: 7, data: {text: 'Events. This broadcast will allow open dialogue between our participants here in Indianapolis, Detroit, and Miami. Let me introduce our moderators in Detroit and Miami. First, let me start with '}},
{ timecode: 126, handler: 'blob', id: 8, data: {text: 'Michigan. We have Representative Clack here in Indianapolis, but in Detroit we have Senator Hansen Clarke. Senator Clarke has an undergraduate degree from Cornell University, where he served on the '}},
{ timecode: 143, handler: 'blob', id: 9, data: {text: 'Board of Trustees as an undergraduate. He received his law degree from Georgetown University. He has served three terms in the House of Representatives in Michigan, and now is serving in the Senate as '}},
{ timecode: 158, handler: 'blob', id: 10, data: {text: 'vice-chair of the Health Policy and Commerce Committee. Senator Clarke, welcome. SENATOR HANSEN CLARKE: Thank you, Chairman Armstrong. And I know there is a little delay, but I’m Hansen Clarke, '}},
{ timecode: 170, handler: 'blob', id: 11, data: {text: 'State Senator, and I welcome all of you. We’re here at the World Headquarters of the General Motors building. Mental health is an important issue here in the State of Michigan, and I want to '}},
{ timecode: 182, handler: 'blob', id: 12, data: {text: 'thank the work of our chair of the Michigan Legislative Black Caucus, Representative Brenda Clack, for focusing on health issues, including the area of mental health. Total well-being depends on '}},
{ timecode: 196, handler: 'blob', id: 13, data: {text: 'mental as well as physical health, yet in our community, we have a stigma, not only on treating, but even recognizing the prevalence of mental illness in our community, and the fact that mental '}},
{ timecode: 211, handler: 'blob', id: 14, data: {text: 'illness is not treated, has a lot of consequences. It drives those who need the proper treatment to use illegal drugs, thus creating a problem with substance abuse in our community, and also too, I '}},
{ timecode: 225, handler: 'blob', id: 15, data: {text: 'live right here in downtown Detroit, and many of the men that I see that get their meals out of the garbage dumpsters and have no place to live, many of them suffer from mental illness as well, so we '}},
{ timecode: 239, handler: 'blob', id: 16, data: {text: 'have the problem of homelessness, which is also related to untreated mental illness. Today we will be able to identify those stigmas and see how we can overcome them to better manage and treat mental '}},
{ timecode: 253, handler: 'blob', id: 17, data: {text: 'illness, and all of the other policy and social issues that arise from this disease. So I welcome all of you here to the City of Detroit. JOE ARMSTRONG: Thank you, Senator Clarke. As we leave the '}},
{ timecode: 272, handler: 'blob', id: 18, data: {text: '– As I said, as we leave the Great Lakes, let’s go down to the Everglades in Florida with Representative Joe Gibbons of Florida. Representative Gibbons is a graduate of Calvin College and '}},
{ timecode: 288, handler: 'blob', id: 19, data: {text: 'has a Master’s from the City University of New York. He was elected to the House of Representatives in 2006, and he is recognized nationally for his business acumen. Representative Gibbons, '}},
{ timecode: 303, handler: 'blob', id: 20, data: {text: 'welcome. REPRESENTATIVE JOSEPH GIBBONS: Thank you, and welcome everyone. Welcome to the lovely City of Miami and the great State of Florida. We are really pleased to be here to participate in this '}},
{ timecode: 314, handler: 'blob', id: 21, data: {text: 'national dialogue. We think this is extremely important. I am fortunate to have a room of professionals, a room of people who actually work in this area and work in other areas that are related. We '}},
{ timecode: 327, handler: 'blob', id: 22, data: {text: 'are looking forward to giving you our prospective on this issue. Now, Florida is 48th in the nation in funding mental illness per capita. We’re 50th in funding for education. So our priorities '}},
{ timecode: 342, handler: 'blob', id: 23, data: {text: 'are upside-down. What we hope to accomplish with this is to bring attention to the fact that we need to put funding, to pay attention to these most important areas. In Florida we brag about quality of '}},
{ timecode: 356, handler: 'blob', id: 24, data: {text: 'life, we brag about our beaches, we brag about how wonderful our weather is, but what we need to brag about is the quality of life and the quality of care that we provide for our citizens, so we are '}},
{ timecode: 367, handler: 'blob', id: 25, data: {text: 'looking forward to joining this discussion, to surfacing this issue, to let people know on a national basis, and on a state basis, to let our State Legislature know that people in America are watching '}},
{ timecode: 379, handler: 'blob', id: 26, data: {text: 'us, people in America know that we need to put more attention to this area, and particularly for the African-American community. In the African-American community, mental illness is something that is '}},
{ timecode: 392, handler: 'blob', id: 27, data: {text: 'not discussed. At Thanksgiving, that is not a part of the conversation. That is something that we are ashamed of, that we are embarrassed about, that’s in the closet. So what we need to do is '}},
{ timecode: 403, handler: 'blob', id: 28, data: {text: 'make our families feel comfortable with the fact that because you are depressed, that does not make you a weak person, that makes you a person who can be treated to have a better quality of life. So '}},
{ timecode: 415, handler: 'blob', id: 29, data: {text: 'thank you for letting us participate in this conference, we are looking forward to having some real input, to being engaged in the conference, so that you can know that in Florida we really do care, '}},
{ timecode: 425, handler: 'blob', id: 30, data: {text: 'and we will show you how much we care by the passion that we show toward this issue. So thank you very much. Back to you in Indianapolis.'}}
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