Giles described the interactions she had with her peers as “eye opening.” “I even got to go into a breakout room where we talked about how our parents don’t necessarily recognize our mental health struggles and I never really talked with someone else my age about my personal experience and their personal experience,” the teenager intimated. Giles, a California teenager, is one of the Children’s Partnership’s youth panelists. “I had never been surrounded by a group of people with the same experiences and the same struggles regarding mental health, regarding being a person of color,” said Samantha Giles.