chiefs of staff. general charles brown, jr., and the pentagon controller testify about the defense department's 2025 budget request. what the senate armed services committee hearing on c-span3, c-span now, our free mobile app, or online at c-span.org. on wednesday, president biden and first lady jill biden post a state dinner honoring japanese prime minister fumio kishida. watch guest arrivals live beginning at 3:30 p.m. eastern on our website, c-span.org, or c-span now, our free video at. and later we will feature highlights from the evening including the prime minister's white has arrival and toasts given at the dinner. what the white house state dinner wednesday on the c-span networks. ♪ >> more than 3200 students from across the country participated

in a 20 year anniversary of c-span's studentcam documentary competition. this year we asked students, in the next 20 years, what is the most important change you would like to see in america? or over the past 20 years, what has been the most important change in america? all this month, we are featuring our top 21 winning entries. this year's second prize high school west winner is a student from mountain view california where c-span is available. there winning documentary which talks about mental health education in schools is titled "mental health educated people >> understanding mental health challenges. >> access to resources, developing false information. >> and so do future generations. ♪ >> the current state is, in a word, abysmal.

many of our illnesses and psychiatry emerged during childhood and adolescence. >> we know how troubling and how challenging covid was for for our youth in terms of isolation. >> you know, not having traditional schooling, not being able to see their friends the way they normally would, not being able to engage. >> teen mental health tanked and has never caught back up at the baseline. >> it's a huge challenge and they feel this stigma. people suffering from mental health problems and concerns have long been named and shamed. >> the average delay between symptoms and treatment is 10 years. youth deserve access to mental health care and i believe the solution lies in schools. 20 years from now mental health , education should be part of the curriculum in eighth grade across the u.s., before they

enter the realm of high school so students are ready. the curriculum would offer digital citizenship training, discuss the different mental challenges to debunk false information online, and include peer-to-peer discussions about topics such as social comparison, academic stress, how to get access to health care, and how to work with the peer in crisis. >> uni require physical health education. >> simply put, schools are a gateway to needed services that otherwise might be inaccessible to many young people. >> one of the things i think is important is just helping young people identify mental health issues and their friends, their classmates, their peers to . >> it needs to incorporate the lived experience and realize he traverses resilient and each of us is vulnerable so as to not perpetuate "us versus them." >> i do think the conversation about time will be a challenge. i think we will need to have a conversation about how do we make time. >> 40 5% of teens have reported

using social media constantly. >> so teens are also typically more likely to be at risk of negative impacts from social tools. students need digital citizenship skills to participate fully in their communities. to really make smart choices online and in life. >> today, at best, the curriculum is limited to videos the students are forced to participate in. let's give students a semester course, as this would not mean simply file requirement and following a federal law, but required students to interact with their teacher and peers, so the information no longer goes in one ear and out the other. > i think it's really important to acknowledge that it is a really substantive way of delivering care for a wide range of folks and not sort of well, we just don't have enough trained professionals. >> why in school?

at the that is for reading, writing, arithmetic or stimulus white chocolate mental-health? because education about ourselves and overcoming struggles that all humans have is part of our education too. >> how people view psychiatry is literally no different. if that is sufficiently widespread, then these practices that claim there is parity but don't actually deliver parity will just become unacceptable. >> we tend to put mental health issues in a box and forget that when a young person is wrestling with mental health issues, that's going to have an impact across-the-board. >> because mental health challenges are something we all go through at one point in time in our lives. if the situation arises in your life, it is not as scary because it is something you already practice with classmates or with a lesson plan that you are following. >> i also want to see us get

engaged with young people at earlier times in their lives and before problems get out of control. >> so that people feel like they have the skills that they need and that training they need to be able to intervene and help out when they could tell that that student, that youth is struggling. >> accountability could be heavily addressed by setting these types of norms and expectations in our own instruction and exhibitions in our schools. >> sb 224 has started requiring

some of this prescribed curriculum.

>> this week is the opening of the impeachment trial of alejandro mayorkas. only the second cabinet member in u.s. history to be impeached

by the house. house impeachment managers led by homeland security committee chair delivered the two articles of impeachment to the senate. refusing to comply with immigration laws and breach of public trust. the senate will be sworn in as jurors. senate minority leader mitch mcconnell says the chamber is expected to vote on whether to dismiss or kill the impeachment charges. live coverage wednesday on c-span two, on c-span now our free mobile video app and online at c-span.org. >> c-span now, a free mobile app featuring your unfiltered view of what's happening in washington, live and on-demand. keep up with the days biggest events with live streams of floor proceedings -- floor proceedings, white house events, the courts, campaigns and more from the world of politics, all at your fingertips. you could stay current with the latest episodes of washington