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{ timecode: 0, handler: 'blob', id: 1, data: {text: 'REPRESENTATIVE CALVIN SMYRE: I am Calvin Smyre, President of the National Black Caucus of State Legislators and I want to welcome you to our conference, Breaking Mental Health Stigmas in our '}},
{ timecode: 11, handler: 'blob', id: 2, data: {text: 'Community. First of all we want to thank Eli Lilly. If you all would give them a round of applause. We would certainly appreciate that. For many years we have been coming to Indianapolis to look at '}},
{ timecode: 30, handler: 'blob', id: 3, data: {text: 'and to find out more - on a fact finding mission as it relates to the various health concerns of our communities, and this year we have chosen mental health. This is a way to inform our members of '}},
{ timecode: 44, handler: 'blob', id: 4, data: {text: 'NBCSL and to have dialogue as it relates to mental health and the stigmas that go along with mental health in our communities and the various barriers as well. On behalf of the NBCSL I want to thank '}},
{ timecode: 57, handler: 'blob', id: 5, data: {text: 'you all for being here in person, and I want to thank those state legislators and others that are gathered in Jackson, Mississippi and in Columbia, South Carolina. As we are gathered here today in '}},
{ timecode: 68, handler: 'blob', id: 6, data: {text: 'Indianapolis we have had this placed online through modern-day technology. I know a lot of you all have notified a lot of your constituencies and informed them that we would have this conference '}},
{ timecode: 86, handler: 'blob', id: 7, data: {text: 'online and they would be able to watch it through conference video, so again we want to welcome you all here, and those of you all who are watching on the internet, we welcome you as well. I want to '}},
{ timecode: 100, handler: 'blob', id: 8, data: {text: 'also acknowledge our Vice President, Barbara Ballard, please give her a round of applause from Kansas... and our National President, our Former National President Mary H. Coleman from the great city '}},
{ timecode: 114, handler: 'blob', id: 9, data: {text: 'of Jackson. I want to thank the Chair of our Health Committee, Joe Armstrong from Tennessee. Thank you Joe. He and Senator Usie Richards from the Virgin Islands both will be working and coordinating '}},
{ timecode: 137, handler: 'blob', id: 10, data: {text: 'our conference on mental health. Then, I want to welcome, she is coming up in a few minutes, but I want to thank Vanessa Summers and the Indiana Legislative Black Caucus for hosting us as well. Please '}},
{ timecode: 152, handler: 'blob', id: 11, data: {text: 'give her a round of applause. And in fact, these past few days we have been sending out press releases as it relates to mental health and the stigmas derived thereof, and the barriers, and more focus '}},
{ timecode: 170, handler: 'blob', id: 12, data: {text: 'on funding, more focus on awareness, more focus on education. In line with that, Representative Summers and I, and others, have written editorials talking about the need for mental health with our '}},
{ timecode: 184, handler: 'blob', id: 13, data: {text: 'veterans. As you know, our veterans face challenging injuries and mental traumas, facing all these injuries in warfare. When they come home we want to make sure they have the necessary resources to be '}},
{ timecode: 203, handler: 'blob', id: 14, data: {text: 'able to be afforded the proper health care. So I am encouraging all of you all to, in your respective state legislatures, to keep focusing on our veterans, and our under-served communities, and those '}},
{ timecode: 219, handler: 'blob', id: 15, data: {text: 'citizens that we represent around the nation. So again, I want to welcome you and thank you all for being here. Your participation means a great deal to us. And the fact that you are here... it is our '}},
{ timecode: 232, handler: 'blob', id: 16, data: {text: 'understanding that you have the same concerns that we have: that we want to find more resources, more areas of cure as it relates to mental health, and more areas of treatment and education. So with '}},
{ timecode: 247, handler: 'blob', id: 17, data: {text: 'that, I want to ask Vanessa Summers, the chair of the Indiana Legislative Black Caucus to come and to make remarks. Please welcome her to the podium. Thanks. REPRESENTATIVE VANESSA SUMMERS: Good '}},
{ timecode: 262, handler: 'blob', id: 18, data: {text: 'morning. Good morning and welcome to Indianapolis, Indiana. I am so glad that the NBCSL is here once again. This has been our 16th year, and we are so, so happy to welcome you. I am excited about our '}},
{ timecode: 277, handler: 'blob', id: 19, data: {text: 'day. I am excited about what we are going to learn today. So let’s sit back and enjoy, and have a good time. As I told you last night, Indianapolis is no longer nap town but a place of surprise '}},
{ timecode: 290, handler: 'blob', id: 20, data: {text: 'and secrets, and good things that can happen. So, sit back and enjoy, and I hope you enjoy the conference. And on behalf of all of my members, we welcome you to Indianapolis, Indiana. REPRESENTATIVE '}},
{ timecode: 309, handler: 'blob', id: 21, data: {text: 'CALVIN SMYRE: And also on behalf of the NBCSL, I want to thank firsthand all of our speakers who bring us all of this information and knowledge. We want to thank you all for being here with us. And '}},
{ timecode: 323, handler: 'blob', id: 22, data: {text: 'now, to give an overview of the conference, the person that we have entrusted to be the leader in the area of health care and the Health Care Committee for the members of NBCSL, please welcome State '}},
{ timecode: 336, handler: 'blob', id: 23, data: {text: 'Representative Joe Armstrong from Tennessee. REPRESENTATIVE JOE ARMSTRONG: Thank you Mr. President and members of NBCSL, and particularly on the behalf of the Health Committee of NBCSL as chair, along '}},
{ timecode: 352, handler: 'blob', id: 24, data: {text: 'with the vice chair, Senator Usie Richards of the Virgin Islands. We want to thank personally Eli Lilly and Company. Our committee, our policy committee, addresses issues pertaining to health care, '}},
{ timecode: 367, handler: 'blob', id: 25, data: {text: 'healthcare education, healthcare research, healthcare employment, and the promotion of good healthcare policy. Along with that we look toward the promotion of specific indicators that affect the '}},
{ timecode: 384, handler: 'blob', id: 26, data: {text: 'African American community. We deal with a variety of just policy issues that affect us in our various states. Just looking at some of the issues we have dealt with over the last 16 years... we have '}},
{ timecode: 403, handler: 'blob', id: 27, data: {text: 'looked at funding of mental health. We have looked at the incarceration of the severely and persistently mentally ill population. We’ve dealt with discrimination and racism in treatment of '}},
{ timecode: 417, handler: 'blob', id: 28, data: {text: 'mental health patients, we have dealt with the deinstitutionalization of our state mental health hospitals. We have dealt with the lack of community-based treatment options for those with mental '}},
{ timecode: 432, handler: 'blob', id: 29, data: {text: 'illness. We have dealt with the stigma associated with mental illness, and also we’ve dealt with the challenges that our facing our veterans - most recently those from Iraq and Afghanistan. Just '}},
{ timecode: 449, handler: 'blob', id: 30, data: {text: 'to mention a few things that we have addressed during these past sixteen years of this great conference. You know, as legislators we pass laws that require professionals to do continuing education for '}},
{ timecode: 466, handler: 'blob', id: 31, data: {text: 'themselves, and also to learn the latest techniques in their professions. If you look, we license insurance agents and real estate agents, and bondsmen, and pilots. If you think about it, we require '}},
{ timecode: 482, handler: 'blob', id: 32, data: {text: 'even security officers. You know, we want doctors to know the latest procedures and the newest medicines and the best practices out there for treatment. We require not only a license, but we require '}},
{ timecode: 498, handler: 'blob', id: 33, data: {text: 'them to have continuing education. We want the lawyers to know about all the new laws and the bills that we pass as state legislators, so we license them, and we require them to do annual continuing '}},
{ timecode: 513, handler: 'blob', id: 34, data: {text: 'education. We want the teachers to teach, we want the preachers to preach, and we want the undertakers to know how to bury us properly. So you know, we do continuing education. As lawmakers, this '}},
{ timecode: 529, handler: 'blob', id: 35, data: {text: 'conference is our continuing education to get up on the latest things, and to be able to reach out to our constituencies with the latest best practices, the best bills that are helping those states '}},
{ timecode: 544, handler: 'blob', id: 36, data: {text: 'all across this country. We are very fortunate because we are able to touch so many people via internet, and we are internet right now. We are cybercasting all across this world: not just this '}},
{ timecode: 561, handler: 'blob', id: 37, data: {text: 'country, but all across this world. We are very fortunate to have partners with us this year. As our president has mentioned, we have partners this year, and we are cybercasting to Columbia, South '}},
{ timecode: 575, handler: 'blob', id: 38, data: {text: 'Carolina, the Palomino State, the home of our former treasurer Kay Patterson. Also to the great state of Mississippi. I want to introduce our moderators in those satellite locations. First let me take '}},
{ timecode: 595, handler: 'blob', id: 39, data: {text: 'the great state of South Carolina. Richland County, South Carolina is known for many things, but none better than the man who represents the 76th house district in South Carolina, representative Leon '}},
{ timecode: 613, handler: 'blob', id: 40, data: {text: 'Howard. Representative Howard is a graduate of Midland Technical College with an associate degree, and he also attended General Motors Automotive Training Center in Atlanta. He is the president of '}},
{ timecode: 628, handler: 'blob', id: 41, data: {text: 'Howard’s Garage Paint and Body and Wrecker Service. He has received numerous certificates for advanced study in automotive and computer technology. He is a member of Midland’s Technical '}},
{ timecode: 640, handler: 'blob', id: 42, data: {text: 'College Automotive Advisory Board, Ridgewood Foundation Campaign Commission. And also, he has also previously served as a chairman of the Board of School Commissioners of Richland County. He was '}},
{ timecode: 655, handler: 'blob', id: 43, data: {text: 'formerly on the mayor’s task force and has had a number of other business accolades. He is a Baptist. He attends Antioch Baptist Church where he sits on the board of trustees. He now serves in '}},
{ timecode: 670, handler: 'blob', id: 44, data: {text: 'the legislature as the Chairman of the Medical, Military and Public Municipal Affairs Committee of South Carolina. If you are ever down and out, and need a lift, he is the man that will pick you up '}},
{ timecode: 684, handler: 'blob', id: 45, data: {text: 'and get you going in South Carolina. Let’s welcome Representative Leon Howard, a man from South Carolina. REPRESENTATIVE LEON HOWARD: I\'d just like to say good morning to everybody and first '}},
{ timecode: 700, handler: 'blob', id: 46, data: {text: 'would like to thank all of you who took time out of your busy schedules today here in South Carolina and other states to come out and join us on this wonderful occasion, this most important occasion, '}},
{ timecode: 712, handler: 'blob', id: 47, data: {text: 'the National Caucus of State Legislators 16th Annual Conference held here in Columbia. I am honored to have the opportunity to be chosen to moderate this conference today. As chairman of the South '}},
{ timecode: 726, handler: 'blob', id: 48, data: {text: 'Carolina House of Representative Medical Affairs Committee and Military Affairs Committee, we may ask the questions, “Why are we here?” A high-profile elected official was speaking once '}},
{ timecode: 743, handler: 'blob', id: 49, data: {text: 'and his young daughter pulled on her dad’s coattail and she said, “Dad, why are we here?” So we could ask that question today, “Why are we here?” I believe that we are '}},
{ timecode: 755, handler: 'blob', id: 50, data: {text: 'here because the community, as a community we must learn more about mental illness, the socioeconomic barriers to treatment, and cultural stigmas associated with this illness. We must educate others '}},
{ timecode: 771, handler: 'blob', id: 51, data: {text: 'so that they can be empowered to recognize the signs of mental illness and respond to this and provide support to those who need care with this illness. Today I look forward to an action plan with an '}},
{ timecode: 787, handler: 'blob', id: 52, data: {text: 'implementation schedule that will help aggressively tackle this most pressing problem. We are not going to come here today and just talk about this. We must develop an action plan and implementation '}},
{ timecode: 802, handler: 'blob', id: 53, data: {text: 'process to attack this terrible disease. Thank you so much for coming today. I look forward to us continuing this dialogue. REPRESENTATIVE JOE ARMSTRONG: Thank you representative Howard. Now we go to '}},
{ timecode: 820, handler: 'blob', id: 54, data: {text: 'Jackson, Mississippi, the home of our former president, Representative Mary Coleman. There we have a moderator, Representative Billy Broomfield who was born in Moss Point, Mississippi and attended '}},
{ timecode: 838, handler: 'blob', id: 55, data: {text: 'Magnolia High School, and a graduate of Enterprise Junior College. He received a degree in Data Processing and Computer Programming. Representative Broomfield is a Vietnam vet. Also during those 6 '}},
{ timecode: 857, handler: 'blob', id: 56, data: {text: 'years in the army he served as a drill instructor. He is a member of St. Paul’s United Methodist Church. He is a 32nd degree Mason. As a public servant, Representative Broomfield represents the '}},
{ timecode: 876, handler: 'blob', id: 57, data: {text: '110th district of the Mississippi House of Representatives where he is the chairman of the Ports, Harbor and Airport as well as subcommittee chair on Appropriations, Education, Public Health and Human '}},
{ timecode: 890, handler: 'blob', id: 58, data: {text: 'Services. He serves as Vice Chair of Economic Development, Transportation and the Cultural Affairs Committee of the Southern Legislative Conference. Representative Broomfield is currently the chair of '}},
{ timecode: 904, handler: 'blob', id: 59, data: {text: 'the Mississippi Legislative Black Caucus and a member of our extended group, the National Black Caucus of State Legislators. He has served numerous civic and social organizations. He is the man in the '}},
{ timecode: 920, handler: 'blob', id: 60, data: {text: '110th district, not only in his district, but at home with his wife Vera. They have 2 daughters and 5 granddaughters. So let’s welcome, from the great state of Mississippi, specifically from '}},
{ timecode: 934, handler: 'blob', id: 61, data: {text: 'Jackson, Representative Billy Broomfield. REPRESENTATIVE BILLY BROOMFIELD: Thank you very kindly. First of all let me say good morning and welcome all of you to the 16th Annual Mental Health '}},
{ timecode: 954, handler: 'blob', id: 62, data: {text: 'Conference held in Indianapolis, Indiana via satellite from Columbia, South Carolina and here in Jackson, Mississippi. This year’s conference, Breaking Mental Health Stigmas in Our Community, '}},
{ timecode: 970, handler: 'blob', id: 63, data: {text: 'will focus on the public health and the public health perception and public policy surrounding the US mental health system\'s impact on African Americans. Our goal is to provide other African American '}},
{ timecode: 985, handler: 'blob', id: 64, data: {text: 'communities nationwide with the opportunity, via satellite, to talk about mental health with health practitioners, policy analysts, and medical experts in order to understand the health barriers and '}},
{ timecode: 1001, handler: 'blob', id: 65, data: {text: 'benefits. Mental health is a serious issue in the African American community around this country for various reasons. Most of those reasons you will hear an expert elaborate about today. So again, let '}},
{ timecode: 1017, handler: 'blob', id: 66, data: {text: 'me thank you for being here, let me welcome you and let me share with you that this day promises to be a very fruitful day with all of the presenters that we have lined up to talk about mental health '}},
{ timecode: 1030, handler: 'blob', id: 67, data: {text: 'and mental health issues in the African American community. I would be remiss if I did not take this opportunity to thank our illustrious president Calvin Smyre for his vision as well as his team for '}},
{ timecode: 1043, handler: 'blob', id: 68, data: {text: 'leading the National Black Caucus of State Legislators in a direction that everyone believes that we should go. We thank the President for his vision. We thank his staff and all the support they give '}},
{ timecode: 1059, handler: 'blob', id: 69, data: {text: 'him. We thank Eli Lilly and all of those for making this conference a reality today and again sit back and relax because this is going to be a very fruitful event throughout the day. Thank you so very '}},
{ timecode: 1071, handler: 'blob', id: 70, data: {text: 'kindly. REPRESENTATIVE JOE ARMSTRONG: Thank you Representative Broomfield. Next on our program - last year - we just wanted to give a small clip of some of the things that went on in our conference '}},
{ timecode: 1086, handler: 'blob', id: 71, data: {text: 'last year. Our keynote speaker was Dr. Alvin Poussaint. So we just wanted to give just a little excerpt from his presentation last year, and so this is from the 15th Annual Mental Health Conference. '}},
{ timecode: 1104, handler: 'blob', id: 72, data: {text: 'DR. ALVIN POUSSAINT: Good morning to all of you. It has been a very long time. Good to see a lot of black faces here. I say that because you know it has been a long haul getting blacks involved in '}},
{ timecode: 1117, handler: 'blob', id: 73, data: {text: 'mental health and caring about mental health. Sometimes they didn’t like to come to conferences about mental health because it made them suspect in some way, you know. If they were looking for '}},
{ timecode: 1130, handler: 'blob', id: 74, data: {text: 'something than they were... anyway, you know there are lots of twists on this. I remembered when I was in training at UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute, I was there for four years and I saw one black '}},
{ timecode: 1150, handler: 'blob', id: 75, data: {text: 'patient. How do you like that? That’s what we were doing back then. In the north, we were serving the white and that’s what you almost wanted to do, but you know, UCLA was in Westwood, '}},
{ timecode: 1163, handler: 'blob', id: 76, data: {text: 'right? A part of Los Angeles which was all white. It was white, and no Latinos lived there, no backs lived there, no Asians lived there. The black people and Latinos were all over South Central, and '}},
{ timecode: 1177, handler: 'blob', id: 77, data: {text: 'Watts, and so on. So the whole referral system, you can see how the system works, kind of just fed in from UCLA and the surrounding community, white patients. So that is who I saw, and then went I '}},
{ timecode: 1194, handler: 'blob', id: 78, data: {text: 'went to the doctor who admitted patients to the outpatient department for treatment, I said, “Listen, I want some black patients.” I wasn’t out of it. I just said, “I need some '}},
{ timecode: 1206, handler: 'blob', id: 79, data: {text: 'black patients.” So finally he found a UCLA student who came in for treatment, a black graduate student, and they assigned him to me. The student walked in, he looked and he saw me, and he said, '}},
{ timecode: 1218, handler: 'blob', id: 80, data: {text: '“What’s going on here?” and wast wondering if they were practicing segregation.” So he was going to go complain to the outpatient department that they were trying to segregate '}},
{ timecode: 1231, handler: 'blob', id: 81, data: {text: 'him. I said, “No, don’t do that. I need some black patients. You have to stick with me.” So we worked out something and we established treatment. Then about the time I finished '}},
{ timecode: 1245, handler: 'blob', id: 82, data: {text: 'training in 1965, the Watts riots broke out, and they were burning up the city. You know the Watts riot, the one major one. Suddenly you know I am a black psychiatrist running around, and I started '}},
{ timecode: 1261, handler: 'blob', id: 83, data: {text: 'getting all of these calls from white reporters, “Why are black people burning down the city? Why are black people so angry? Why are black people hating white people?” I said, “I '}},
{ timecode: 1272, handler: 'blob', id: 84, data: {text: 'don’t know. I haven’t seen any.” But then I saw a whole lot of the folks, because by the time I finished my psychiatric training I felt that the most important thing to do for black '}},
{ timecode: 1288, handler: 'blob', id: 85, data: {text: 'Americans in terms of their mental health, was be engaged in the struggle to end racial discrimination and segregation in America, the number one thing. And so I left UCLA with a different plan, and '}},
{ timecode: 1302, handler: 'blob', id: 86, data: {text: 'that’s how I ended up in Jackson, Mississippi working the civil rights movement. I felt we had to get the hospitals desegregated. How are you going to practice medicine? I mean segregated '}},
{ timecode: 1315, handler: 'blob', id: 87, data: {text: 'medicine, in and of itself was a threat to the well-being of black people, their mental health and physical health, life/death situation, and that had to be eliminated. It had to be eliminated not '}},
{ timecode: 1330, handler: 'blob', id: 88, data: {text: 'just in terms of regular hospitals, but also mental. I can’t tell you the mental hospitals that I went to there that were segregated, that were state hospitals, and the conditions and the way '}},
{ timecode: 1341, handler: 'blob', id: 89, data: {text: 'all patients were treated, but especially how black patients were mistreated. And if it is any wonder why black people were afraid of psychiatry, what did they know about psychiatry? First of all, the '}},
{ timecode: 1353, handler: 'blob', id: 90, data: {text: 'psychiatrists in the south, and a lot of them in the north, even at UCLA, were not treating black patients, right? And a lot of them did not know anything about cross-cultural anything. In fact some '}},
{ timecode: 1365, handler: 'blob', id: 91, data: {text: 'of them were overtly prejudiced, and I tell you, it’s difficult dealing with physicians who are overtly prejudiced, as you did all over the South who were segregationists, but it is even worse '}},
{ timecode: 1377, handler: 'blob', id: 92, data: {text: 'for me, kind of painful, when you’ve run into psychiatrists who are bigoted. When the heads of hospital psychiatry departments are part of the segregationist movement, and they are supposed to '}},
{ timecode: 1391, handler: 'blob', id: 93, data: {text: 'be protecting your mental health. Well, who’s going to go to them knowing those types of things? But the experience that blacks had with the mental care system, both in the North and in the '}},
{ timecode: 1401, handler: 'blob', id: 94, data: {text: 'South was that somehow psychiatrists got a hold of you, and you got pink papered and were put away in a state mental hospital, where you were lost and maybe gone forever. So a lot of black patients '}},
{ timecode: 1416, handler: 'blob', id: 95, data: {text: 'even in the North, when I came back and I worked in Boston, sometimes I couldn’t get black people to come in to see me even when he outreached to them. We would go to their apartment because the '}},
{ timecode: 1427, handler: 'blob', id: 96, data: {text: 'nurses found out they were depressed and so on, and they wouldn’t let you in. They said, “You’re not coming in my house,” and they had a good reason for that. That is because '}},
{ timecode: 1438, handler: 'blob', id: 97, data: {text: 'the experience that they knew of with psychiatry, that people would take them and put them in a state hospital, locked up against their will. Two people can lock you up against your will: cops and '}},
{ timecode: 1452, handler: 'blob', id: 98, data: {text: 'psychiatrists. So the patients would say, “You’re not coming into my apartment to see me” because they didn’t want to run the risk of me finding something mentally wrong with '}},
{ timecode: 1466, handler: 'blob', id: 99, data: {text: 'them and then putting them in a state hospital. So they were being smart. But this distrust and this fear - it’s not just distrust, it’s fear, carries over into the general population, so '}},
{ timecode: 1481, handler: 'blob', id: 100, data: {text: 'until this day you have blacks very, very suspicious about psychiatrists, and sometimes it’s the way psychiatrists practice. When you come into a psychiatrist, we are looking for like '}},
{ timecode: 1495, handler: 'blob', id: 101, data: {text: 'problem-psychopathology they call it, like “What’s wrong with you?” So if you come and see me and you didn’t have any problems, when you leave you do. So that in itself is '}},
{ timecode: 1512, handler: 'blob', id: 102, data: {text: 'threatening, right? You are going to find something... because people think psychiatrists can read minds and do all kinds of things, which they can\'t, so they figure “I’m not going to be '}},
{ timecode: 1523, handler: 'blob', id: 103, data: {text: 'able to hide it.” I always understood why astrologists were much more popular in the black community. Because you went in to see an astrologist and they, like, said, “You know in two weeks '}},
{ timecode: 1532, handler: 'blob', id: 104, data: {text: 'you’re going to come into some money, and in three months you’re going to meet someone handsome,” and you walked out feeling good, you know? Not more depressed than when you walked '}},
{ timecode: 1543, handler: 'blob', id: 105, data: {text: 'in, after the psychiatrist found out all these bad things. So I think there are a lot of kinds of issues here. And then consider, too, that the cross-cultural things. I get so many calls even today '}},
{ timecode: 1559, handler: 'blob', id: 106, data: {text: 'from black patients who want advice from me, who are very uncomfortable going to white practitioners because, not so much that they are prejudiced against the white practitioner, but they feel the '}},
{ timecode: 1573, handler: 'blob', id: 107, data: {text: 'white practitioners won’t understand them, that they won’t know anything about the black experience, so are they going to be understood? And then there is a little suspicion of “Do '}},
{ timecode: 1582, handler: 'blob', id: 108, data: {text: 'they really care about me,” and even a little suspicion “Are they prejudiced?” We know in the medical profession, like all around American society, and I am not talking about overt '}},
{ timecode: 1594, handler: 'blob', id: 109, data: {text: 'stuff, I am talking about subtle stuff; sometimes not understanding. It is like working with the Cosby Show. The writers weren’t prejudiced. They said things that they didn’t know about '}},
{ timecode: 1605, handler: 'blob', id: 110, data: {text: 'the black experience, because it wasn’t their experience. So if they named colleges that the kids were going to they would say Oberlin, Swarthmore, Yale, etc., you had to circle that and put in '}},
{ timecode: 1614, handler: 'blob', id: 111, data: {text: 'Howard and Morehouse. REPRESENTATIVE JOE ARMSTRONG: Okay, just giving you a little flavor of last year’s conference to see what you would expect for this year coming up. But let me tell you, you '}},
{ timecode: 1631, handler: 'blob', id: 112, data: {text: 'can also see the entire speech on our website, NBCSL.org, so we wanted everyone to be mindful of that. Also, you will be able to see this conference, also, on our website. You know every year, '}},
{ timecode: 1652, handler: 'blob', id: 113, data: {text: 'starting... I guess the brainchild and the impetus of this Annual Mental Health Conference, our host for the last sixteen years has been the Eli Lilly and Company, but you know a number of people, '}},
{ timecode: 1672, handler: 'blob', id: 114, data: {text: 'including myself, look at the face of Eli Lilly as being that person who is the Western Regional Director of Government Affairs for Eli Lilly, Nate Miles. Each year Nate hosts our Annual Prayer '}},
{ timecode: 1696, handler: 'blob', id: 115, data: {text: 'Breakfast where people get up early in the morning to be there, because they know that they’re gonna get a little religion there, and even though he is an executive with a Fortune 500 company, '}},
{ timecode: 1712, handler: 'blob', id: 116, data: {text: 'he has got a lot of whoop about it. There is this one quote he always says, he says “Somebody pray for me,” he says “Somebody pray for me” he says “I don’t know '}},
{ timecode: 1725, handler: 'blob', id: 117, data: {text: 'why, but I am so glad but somebody pray for me.” And he has gotten his blessings and one thing about it he has been spreading his blessings to us here at NBCSL. He’s our friend. '}},
{ timecode: 1738, handler: 'blob', id: 118, data: {text: 'Let’s bring him on for an introduction – Nate Miles. NATE MILES: Thank you Mr. Chairman. First giving honor to God who is the head of my life. I want to say what a pleasure it is to be '}},
{ timecode: 1753, handler: 'blob', id: 119, data: {text: 'back again with NBCSL and Joe, you are right somebody prayed for me and I am glad, I really am glad from day to day when you see things go on and the challenges that we face. We are able to make that '}},
{ timecode: 1769, handler: 'blob', id: 120, data: {text: 'with the prayers and best wishes of friends like we have in this room and so I want to appreciate all of you. I know it has been a long year up to this point. I have seen most of you at conferences '}},
{ timecode: 1781, handler: 'blob', id: 121, data: {text: 'across NCSL and other and other CSG and everything else – MOUSE - all summer long so I know coming up to one more conference is not what you wanted so to do but you are into this issue and this '}},
{ timecode: 1796, handler: 'blob', id: 122, data: {text: 'is an issue that is very important to our communities. Not just here in the country but also across the world. I am so pleased to work for a company like Eli Lilly when we started talking about taking '}},
{ timecode: 1809, handler: 'blob', id: 123, data: {text: 'this out and I wish Representative Smith from Indiana was here because he asked the question of, “What are we doing to some of the brothers and sisters across the world?” “How are '}},
{ timecode: 1820, handler: 'blob', id: 124, data: {text: 'they getting the message?” I took that to heart three years ago and said we are going to if it is at all possible to take this message out. And so in working with Dina and others at NBCSL last '}},
{ timecode: 1833, handler: 'blob', id: 125, data: {text: 'year we were able to get on the internet. Now the World Wide Web has allowed us, and I can report that there is 15 places in Africa watching us today. What we are doing in those places where some '}},
{ timecode: 1846, handler: 'blob', id: 126, data: {text: 'people—that is just the ones that we know of—but spreading throughout their networks about what is going on and about this conference and what we are doing, I want you to know this is very '}},
{ timecode: 1857, handler: 'blob', id: 127, data: {text: 'important work and it is work that we are able to then take the experiences that we have in this room so please share today. I know some of you in your states have some great best practices that we '}},
{ timecode: 1868, handler: 'blob', id: 128, data: {text: 'have done in other places. Know that it is just not being shared in this room now. It is being shared in villages across this country, across the world where they would never be able to hear your '}},
{ timecode: 1879, handler: 'blob', id: 129, data: {text: 'voice but because of technology that is there today we are going to do it. I am so pleased, proud, and privileged to be able to do that and just thank you Mr. President for your vision in saying we '}},
{ timecode: 1891, handler: 'blob', id: 130, data: {text: 'are going to make this thing happen and it did happen and a short year and a half later we were up and on the net and people can go back and forth to the website if they happen to miss it, so '}},
{ timecode: 1900, handler: 'blob', id: 131, data: {text: 'that’s just a great transition that we went into. It’s my pleasure also to introduce to you today Alecia DeCoudreaux. Alecia is the Vice President and General Counsel for the company for '}},
{ timecode: 1914, handler: 'blob', id: 132, data: {text: 'Lilly USA. She was named Vice President and General Counsel Vice President and General Counsel of Lilly USA in 2005. She had been the Secretary and Deputy General Counsel since 1999. She was born in '}},
{ timecode: 1927, handler: 'blob', id: 133, data: {text: 'Chicago. She received her bachelors degree in English and Political Science from Wellesley in \'76 and a Doctorate of Law from the IU School of Law in Bloomington in \'78. She was employed at Pillsbury '}},
{ timecode: 1939, handler: 'blob', id: 134, data: {text: 'Madison. I can tell a bunch of other stuff. I could tell you that she is a Trustee of the Wellesley College, a member of the Board of Directors of the Indiana University Foundation, the Board of '}},
{ timecode: 1948, handler: 'blob', id: 135, data: {text: 'Visitors at the Indiana University School of Law. So much more that Alecia DeCoudreaux has done in her life corporately. But I want to tell you about the Alecia DeCoudreaux that I know, who was role '}},
{ timecode: 1966, handler: 'blob', id: 136, data: {text: 'model and a trail blazer. If you will notice in her bio, I’m not gonna bore you in reading it, but one of the things that she was, was she was a Director of Corporate Affairs, State Government '}},
{ timecode: 1976, handler: 'blob', id: 137, data: {text: 'and Community Relations in 1992 and then the Director of Government Relations in Washington DC. Look at when she did that. In 1993, an African American heading up a DC office in 1993 was unheard of, a '}},
{ timecode: 1994, handler: 'blob', id: 138, data: {text: 'woman heading up a government affairs office in Washington DC in 1993. So the trailblazer that you will see before her because so many times people look for Jackie Robinson and all these '}},
{ timecode: 2009, handler: 'blob', id: 139, data: {text: 'other—and it is right underneath our eyes, and I want you to know, Alecia, I have never had a chance to tell you personally and publicly how much I think about you because people ask me why I '}},
{ timecode: 2021, handler: 'blob', id: 140, data: {text: 'take some of the corporate risks I do. It’s because of someone like Alecia who has always been there every time I have gone to her and asked her advice on things and she is so wise. What she '}},
{ timecode: 2032, handler: 'blob', id: 141, data: {text: 'will do is she won’t tell me what to do, or what even not to do. She never puts reins on me to rein me in, she just gives me guardrails. “Stay within this Nate and trust your heart, use '}},
{ timecode: 2043, handler: 'blob', id: 142, data: {text: 'your best judgment and do what’s right.” Ladies and gentlemen, what is right about corporate America is Alecia DeCoudreaux our Vice President and General Counsel of Lilly USA, please bring '}},
{ timecode: 2053, handler: 'blob', id: 143, data: {text: 'her on. ALECIA DECOUDREAUX: Thank you very much Nate. You know my mother would absolutely love that introduction and therefore I do too. Good morning everyone. It is my pleasure on behalf of Eli Lilly '}},
{ timecode: 2071, handler: 'blob', id: 144, data: {text: 'and company to welcome our honored guests to this annual event, an event that Lilly and Indianapolis are privileged to host for the sixteenth year in a row. I would like to extend a welcome to NBCSL '}},
{ timecode: 2086, handler: 'blob', id: 145, data: {text: 'leadership here today including Representative Calvin Smyre, and Representative Joe Armstrong, and I would like to give an extra special welcome to our hometown person on the dais her today, '}},
{ timecode: 2100, handler: 'blob', id: 146, data: {text: 'Representative Vanessa Summers. It’s very good to be here with you this morning. We are very excited that this year\'s conference is being simulcast in both Mississippi and South Carolina so '}},
{ timecode: 2111, handler: 'blob', id: 147, data: {text: 'I’d like to recognize first all those attending in Jackson including State Representative Billy Broomfield, chair of the Mississippi Black Caucus and I will also mention that Jackson is '}},
{ timecode: 2122, handler: 'blob', id: 148, data: {text: 'represented in Eli Lilly and Company because our chief medical officer, Dr. Jack Harris is very proudly telling me on a regular basis that he hails from Jackson, Mississippi. So I would also like to '}},
{ timecode: 2136, handler: 'blob', id: 149, data: {text: 'recognize everyone assembled in Columbia including State Representative Leon Howard. Representatives Broomfield and Howard, please know that your respective states are being well represented live '}},
{ timecode: 2148, handler: 'blob', id: 150, data: {text: 'today by Representatives James Clyburn and Bennie Thompson. I thank you all for making time in your busy schedules to participate in this conference. Further let me express my sincere appreciation for '}},
{ timecode: 2163, handler: 'blob', id: 151, data: {text: 'your dedicated public service. You are on the front lines dealing with issues every day that are vitally important to all of us. So we come together today to address an important issue to all '}},
{ timecode: 2178, handler: 'blob', id: 152, data: {text: 'stakeholders in the room: breaking mental health stigmas in our communities. The statistics are actually clear. African Americans are less likely to receive mental illness diagnoses that Caucasian '}},
{ timecode: 2192, handler: 'blob', id: 153, data: {text: 'Americans and are therefore less likely to receive treatment. In fact, a survey by the National Mental Health Association revealed that African Americans and persons over 65 years old are the least '}},
{ timecode: 2207, handler: 'blob', id: 154, data: {text: 'likely groups to seek professional help for depression. So why aren’t African Americans getting the help we need to deal with mental illness? There are several factors at play. One is an '}},
{ timecode: 2221, handler: 'blob', id: 155, data: {text: 'historical mistrust of health professionals and cultural barriers between doctor and patient. Another is a tendency to rely on church and family in times of stress. Indeed these support systems are a '}},
{ timecode: 2235, handler: 'blob', id: 156, data: {text: 'strength of the African American community. But the down side is that African Americans often go without treatment by mental health professionals, treatment that would not only help the patient but '}},
{ timecode: 2247, handler: 'blob', id: 157, data: {text: 'also enhance the efforts of family and community to provide support and care. There is one more factor. Unlike other illnesses, there’s a stigma attached to mental illness, a stigma that creates '}},
{ timecode: 2261, handler: 'blob', id: 158, data: {text: 'a real barrier in seeking treatment. For example let’s take the case of a hypothetical depressed black woman. She may fear admitting she has depression. So she doesn’t even seek out '}},
{ timecode: 2275, handler: 'blob', id: 159, data: {text: 'medical advice. Or maybe she has taken that step and has seen a doctor for feeling “blue.” Now she has been diagnosed with depression. Still there is that internal hesitation, that '}},
{ timecode: 2292, handler: 'blob', id: 160, data: {text: 'reluctance to take an antidepressant for fear it’s a sign of weakness, instability, or even failure. I recently read a US News and World Report interview with Terrie Williams, the African '}},
{ timecode: 2306, handler: 'blob', id: 161, data: {text: 'American author of the book Black Pain: It Just Looks Like We’re Not Hurting. Ms. Williams has suffered from bouts of depression throughout her life. Well she said something astounding in that '}},
{ timecode: 2319, handler: 'blob', id: 162, data: {text: 'interview, “Depression is a sign of weakness in the black community. Black people would rather say that they have a relative in jail before they will acknowledge that they have a mental '}},
{ timecode: 2331, handler: 'blob', id: 163, data: {text: 'illness.” Well, I know this problem all too well. Because I have a very dear cousin who suffers from depression and I am one of the few people in our family who knows this, and he was mortified '}},
{ timecode: 2343, handler: 'blob', id: 164, data: {text: 'to talk to me about it. The embarrassment was just extraordinary for him in our discussion. I know he has been prescribed an antidepressant and yet I don’t know if he takes it because when we '}},
{ timecode: 2356, handler: 'blob', id: 165, data: {text: 'talked he was worried that his wife and/or his son would see it and would then know that he had depression. His mother has been in the mental health field for forty years and he didn’t want her '}},
{ timecode: 2368, handler: 'blob', id: 166, data: {text: 'to know, because a black man does not have depression. So I understand this problem. But it can’t be and it has to stop. We can’t continue to lose our mothers and our fathers and our '}},
{ timecode: 2381, handler: 'blob', id: 167, data: {text: 'sisters and brothers in this way. I am hopeful that today’s conference will indeed help launch a dialogue on mental health and black America. For our part Lilly will continue to engage with the '}},
{ timecode: 2393, handler: 'blob', id: 168, data: {text: 'NBCSL and other organizations to take this dialogue to our communities. We support the efforts to get the word out through the alternative press, through faith-based institutions, and other avenues. '}},
{ timecode: 2405, handler: 'blob', id: 169, data: {text: 'To lift the stigma of mental illness in communities of color. So why is Lilly involved? Well, our overarching vision is to provide improved outcomes for individual patients and we can’t deliver '}},
{ timecode: 2421, handler: 'blob', id: 170, data: {text: 'better individual outcomes unless we better understand individual patients. To improve outcomes for individual patients we have to understand all the differences among patients that effect the desired '}},
{ timecode: 2435, handler: 'blob', id: 171, data: {text: 'outcomes. There maybe a genetic component which is why we’re committed to enrolling more minority group members in our clinical trials. So that our trials mirror the patient population we hope '}},
{ timecode: 2448, handler: 'blob', id: 172, data: {text: 'to treat. But this is about more than biology and more than medicines. We need to understand the demographic characteristics of the patients who suffer from the disease we intend to address: how they '}},
{ timecode: 2465, handler: 'blob', id: 173, data: {text: 'make choices about their health and what they value, which maybe based on gender or socioeconomic or cultural factors or attitudes about certain diseases. Further, the information we provide must be '}},
{ timecode: 2479, handler: 'blob', id: 174, data: {text: 'presented in a way that resonates with each person. We also need to help patients understand what else they need to do in addition to taking their medicine to improve their lives. To convince patients '}},
{ timecode: 2492, handler: 'blob', id: 175, data: {text: 'to change behavior we have to seek knowledge about them and we have to speak the same language. That’s to us what providing answers that matter is all about. When we talk about mental health the '}},
{ timecode: 2507, handler: 'blob', id: 176, data: {text: 'key outcome from the patient’s prospective is not just the alleviation of symptoms, although that is critical, it is ultimately the ability to live a full and normal life. To just be regular. So '}},
{ timecode: 2522, handler: 'blob', id: 177, data: {text: 'you can see why our efforts cannot be limited to the laboratory or the manufacturing plant or even the doctor’s office. We must work with mental health professionals and with the broader '}},
{ timecode: 2533, handler: 'blob', id: 178, data: {text: 'community to help patients manage depression, schizophrenia, or other diseases in a way that allows them to live their lives fully and getting help is the very first step. So, as an example, one of '}},
{ timecode: 2549, handler: 'blob', id: 179, data: {text: 'Lilly’s initiatives in mental health is directly related to the panel discussion later today on military and veterans affairs. Last year the Lilly Foundation announced a one million dollar grant '}},
{ timecode: 2561, handler: 'blob', id: 180, data: {text: 'to two organizations working together to provide free mental health services for returning soldiers and their families. The grant to the American Psychiatric Foundation in partnership with Give an '}},
{ timecode: 2574, handler: 'blob', id: 181, data: {text: 'Hour was used to recruit and educate volunteer mental health professionals who will become part of a network aiming to bridge the gap in mental health services for soldiers returning from service as '}},
{ timecode: 2587, handler: 'blob', id: 182, data: {text: 'well as for their families. With that I would like to thank you very much for your time and attention and for your dedication to improving the lives and health of African Americans. We at Lilly '}},
{ timecode: 2601, handler: 'blob', id: 183, data: {text: 'strongly support the efforts of the NBCSL to focus on this vitally important issue and to initiate a dialogue in the African American community. In your tireless efforts you are true champions for '}},
{ timecode: 2615, handler: 'blob', id: 184, data: {text: 'people of this country and we at Lilly are proud to support you in these important endeavors. We look forward to the privilege of working with you in the months and the years ahead and I wish you a '}},
{ timecode: 2626, handler: 'blob', id: 185, data: {text: 'very productive conference today. Thank you so much. REPRESENTATIVE CALVIN SMYRE: Alecia and Nate we want to especially and thank you all. We had a dinner last night with Bart Peterson and we’ve '}},
{ timecode: 2644, handler: 'blob', id: 186, data: {text: 'met your chair and CEO John Lechleiter and it’s just been a marvelous relationship over the years. Nate has been an outstanding representative for the company and I expressed that to Bart last '}},
{ timecode: 2659, handler: 'blob', id: 187, data: {text: 'night as well as I have done with John and all the members in here including our president Mary Coleman from Mississippi, knows of the immense respect we have for Nate Miles and for your company '}},
{ timecode: 2672, handler: 'blob', id: 188, data: {text: 'because not only do you preach corporate social responsibility but you practice it. The fact that you are all here this morning and committed the resources for us to be able to have this type of '}},
{ timecode: 2684, handler: 'blob', id: 189, data: {text: 'dialogue on this type of issue over the years in mental health and we know the barriers and the stigmas in our communities and for you to be here today we wanted to express our deep appreciation from '}},
{ timecode: 2694, handler: 'blob', id: 190, data: {text: 'the National Black Caucus of State Legislators. We are 600 members strong, 42 states, including the District of Columbia and the Virgin Islands so thank you again. Let’s give her a round of '}},
{ timecode: 2704, handler: 'blob', id: 191, data: {text: 'applause again. Thank you.'}}
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