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12 IV. WHO WE ARE The Ad Hoc Committee for Youth At Risk In 2013, the Lexington School Committee formed the Ad Hoc Committee for Youth At Risk to address concerns regarding Lexington youth aged 3 to 22 whose mental or physical health is at risk because of unhealthy stress originating from physical, emotional, social, cultural, and academic sources that may adversely affect them and their families. Members of the School Committee elected to create the Ad Hoc Committee because of its own concern for the effects of stress on students, as well as its acknowledgment of concerns expressed by the community. The Ad Hoc Committee for Youth at Risk was charged by the School Committee "with recommending policies, goals and programs to address the issue of youth at risk due to stress". When the School Committee established the Ad Hoc Committee, it noted that this is a community issue that transcends the schools and which requires a collaborative response by the community as a whole. Therefore, the Ad Hoc Committee was constituted to include representatives from not only the Lexington Public Schools (administration, Ad Hoc Committee for Youth At Risk teachers, principals), but also from a Lexington community-based program serving youth at risk, Members Representing Laurie Atwater Business concerned community groups, parents of Lexington William Blout,co-chair Therapists students, Lexington students, a Lexington-based Katie Boudreau Teachers therapist, and a community business leader, as well Linda Chase School Administration Constance Counts Community Programs as liaisons from the School Committee and School Tammy Darling Teachers Guidance. Other parties who were invited but did Adam Goldberg School Principals not participate included liaisons from the Youth Sion Kim Harris Parents Eileen Jay Parents Services Council, the Lexington Human Services Serena Luo Students Department, the Human Services Committee, the Alana Martel Students Lexington Health Department, the Lexington Police Ann Redmon Community Groups BJ Rudman,co-chair Community Groups Department, the Town Recreation Department, and Valerie Viscosi School Administration the Board of Selectmen. Liaisons The Ad Hoc Committee which was established as a Alessandro Alessandrini School Committee one-year committee met monthly, and later weekly, Margaret Coppe School Committee from November 2013 through November 2014. Its Tessa Riley Clare School Guidance work culminates with the submission of this report Kathleen Cardona PTO Bettina McGimsey PTO and a companion presentation to the School Committee.