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几天前，我带着我两岁的小孙女索菲亚去海滩。她拉着我的手玩了一会儿，很快就想把我推开，自己去“乘风踏浪”，我不得不紧紧地跟着她，牢牢地抓住她，才能保证她的安全，结果我的手机掉进了海里，幸好后来捞上来了:)
那一刻，我意识到海浪的力量有多么强大，一个不留神，我的手机，我的小索菲亚就会被海浪卷走，正如我们的孩子，当心理健康危机的海浪席卷过来时，他们如果得不到有效的支持，他们的生命就可能会被带走。感谢上帝，感谢所有关爱孩子的祖父母、父母、邻居、朋友、倡导心理健康的社会工作者们，是你们共同的努力，保障了我们孩子的安全。让我们联起手来，共同创建这个WAVES社区，这样我们就可以和孩子们一起站在冲浪板上，互相支持着，朝着健康的、充满希望的远方前进。谢谢大家！
This experience made me think of how powerful life’s WAVES can be, and how easy it is to be swept away, phones, my little Sophia, our children, be swept away by suicides if they were to face the powerful WAVES of mental health challenges by themselves, without support. Thank God for grandmas, parents, neighbors, friends, advocates, and caring people like you! We are in this together to keep our children safe. Let’s all be part of the WAVES Village, be that support, so we can ride WAVES with our children. Hopefully they will be on a surf board one day, standing up, toward wellness. Thank you!
—— UCA WAVES精神健康项目总监陈健
Lily Chen, Project Director, United Chinese Americans (UCA) WAVES
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