This meeting is being recorded and summarized.

Good morning.

It is 10 11 on Thursday, July 9th.

This is the Family's Task Force.

I'm Nancy Barr.

I co-chair this with Kathy Hallis, who's on the screen.

Fortunately, she couldn't be here in person today.

She usually is, which is a very important job taking care of grandchildren today.

So we'll give her a pass.

And we usually do go around and people can introduce themselves, you know, all the people who look here, but that does take a little bit of time.

So I think what we'll do just in the interest of time is if people who are remote can sort of put their put their name and and uh where they're from, and um if you want your contact information in case somebody else wants to get in touch with you, um that would be great.

And then people here around the table will uh most of whom will be many of whom will be presenting today.

So they'll be getting into this, but we'll just go quickly around to uh the folks, the other folks.

So uh starting David.

Oh my David West is a county.

Erica Pierce, Westchester County Legislator District 2.

Roland Branco, executive director at New Person.

Nancy Westwell, uh coalition coordinator and youth advantage of Newport Chaggerie Goldson, uh program director in the Westchester office of the New York Community Trust.

Lauren Perkins, I'm also a program director in the Westchester Office of the New York Community Trust.

I'm the executive director of Mount Key School Childcare Center and co-president of the Westchester Early Childhood Directors Association.

Brancing Schwarz, Vice Chair of the Board of Lois Brown's Children's Center, and the daughter of Lois Brown.

Oh nice.

Laura Rossi, Vice President, New York Community Trust, Westchester Office.

Joan Lloyd Shepherd, CEO and President, Lois Brown's Children's Center.

Uh Jewel Williams Johnson, legislator for the eighth district.

Um Theo the Marino, student at Rye High School.

Sadie Phil, student of my high school.

Alexandra DeMayo, student at Rye High School.

Thank you all for coming.

We, as I say, we have two a really um important and excellent presentations today, and I'm really excited to get started.

Um, and there's actually even sort of um, you know, there is sort of a relationship here because um our first group of of speakers, the students from Rye High School are going to be talking about the impact of um cell phones and social media um youth.

And um, and they've done a wonderful presentation um for younger students, and they're gonna talk about that today and share with us their thoughts and also what they're currently working on.

And that's a program that we're very interested in here at the Families Task Force because um we've you know been working on this uh disconnect to reconnect um initiative, which um we've spoken a lot about, and this really fits right into that because it's about you know disconnecting from screens, not just for you know, but for for people in your age group, which obviously you know that's important, but also for the very young children, children you know that we'll be talking about later on today.

Um when we talk about child care, and um, so it is it is relevant, and um and also frankly for adults, we all sort of need to it's it's it's very addictive.

We all have our phones handy and uh it's sometimes hard to break break away from it.

So um without further ado, oh, and I do want to mention that we also have uh remote today, um, legislator Shanade Williams.

Thank you for joining us.

And uh I will mention if everyone else uh they all introduced themselves in the chat.

Okay, fantastic.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Okay, so without further ado, I'm gonna turn it over to you ladies to talk about delay the school.

Thank you so much.

So for some more context, about like three months ago, me and Sadie and Alex and a few other students at Right High School, we gave a presentation to around 25 students and parents at the Rye Free Reading Room.

Um, this presentation that we're gonna be walking you through today, on basically trying to convince students on why they may want to consider delaying getting a phone and waiting until they're a little bit older.

And we had a lot of success with the presentation with lots of parents and students telling us that it really affected them because hearing this presentation, especially from older high schoolers is something that the younger kids can really look up to.

And after that, we actually went to Milton Elementary School and we gave a second presentation to around 120 more students, and it was very successful there too.

So we're here today to kind of show you guys the presentation and show the techniques we use in the presentation that help the students realize that you know social media can be a little bit dangerous, having a phone at a young age can be a little bit scary, and kind of how we convince them to delay getting a phone and why we think that's really important.

So we're just gonna be walking through the presentation.

It's called growing up with iPhones, takeaways from our experience.

So the entire presentation is very focused on our own experience that the younger students can kind of look up to that, and it's better like the statistics sometimes for young students because it speaks to them more.

So yeah, we can go to the next slide.

So at the beginning of our presentation, we always start by introducing ourselves, and we do this so that the presentation feels more relatable to the younger students, and so they're not just like who are these people that are presenting to us, but also for the sake of this presentation, we can also do that.

So some things about me.

I'm a rising senior, and my name's Fiona, and I go to Rye High School.

I'm also on the Rye Soccer and track team.

And I am a part of a few clubs like RIAC with Ms.

Pasquale, and I first got a phone in fifth grade, which had a lot of negative effects on me because I don't think I was completely ready for it, which we're gonna talk about later in the presentation.

And we always tell the students when we got a phone and some context about when we got social media as well, so that they can kind of hear that.

And we can go to the next slide.