We have to do something about mental health policy.

Thank you very much.

I thank her for once again being here to help.

Thank you very, very much. I want to thank the entire panel.

I thank Alan for being here with us.

Thank you very much. Well, we are going to call up the third panel so that we can hear finally this panel, some experts in this area both here in the New York area as well as in other parts of the country.

Therefore, the mental health implications, and I applaud you for conducting this hearing, must be included in the general response that addresses security, preparedness, intelligence and public health.

I look forward to this hearing.

I think that is absolutely right, and I especially like what you said in your testimony about training for all those daily situations that come up that people need to know how to respond to.

But I sadly have to tell you nine months later many of these high risk children and teens are getting worse, not better.

A plan of action has to be put into effect now for the weeks surrounding September 11, 2002.

We need to determine if we are doing all we can in Government to help cope with this trauma.

I am very honored that Chairman Kennedy was so interested in this subject that he authorized this important field hearing

I am just going reiterate a point that was made.

I just want to ask each of you to give us your top priority for us to follow up with.

Well, maybe one of the things we can work on is getting a better idea of how the Teens for Teens program works in the Red Bank High School and see if there are some models that we could use right here.

There is not a more important issue for our metropolitan region than making sure that our children and their health is attended to.

I really want to underscore that, because clearly with the increased emphasis on preparedness and homeland security our front line soldiers, who are our fire, police, emergency first responders, are going to be expected to do a lot, and if…