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Weather Alert

Weather Alert

...AN AIR QUALITY ACTION DAY HAS BEEN DECLARED...

The officials at the Indiana Department of Environmental
Management have called for an Air Quality Action Day on Friday
June 2 for the following Indiana counties...

Carroll, Warren, Tippecanoe, Clinton, Howard, Fountain,
Montgomery, Boone, Tipton, Hamilton, Madison, Delaware, Randolph,
Vermillion, Parke, Putnam, Hendricks, Hancock, Henry, Vigo, Clay,
Owen, Morgan, Johnson, Shelby, Rush, Sullivan, Greene, Monroe,
Brown, Bartholomew, Decatur, Knox, Daviess, Martin, Lawrence,
Jackson and Jennings.

This Air Quality Action day will be in effect from 1200 AM to
1159 PM.

An Air Quality Action Day means that a combination of the high
temperatures, light winds, and other factors, are expected to
produce conditions where high levels of ozone emissions may exceed
federally mandated standards.

Here are some recommended actions that the public can take to reduce
ozone forming emissions:

* Walk, bike, carpool or use public transportation.
* Avoid using the drive-through and combine errands into one trip.
* Avoid refueling your vehicle or using gasoline-powered lawn
equipment until after 7pm.
* Turn off your engine when idling for more than 30 seconds.
* Conserve energy by turning off lights or setting the air
conditioner to 75 degrees or above.

NCHS Grant for Youth Resiliency impacts local schools

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By the end of the current school year, more than 30,000 children will have been impacted by a North Central Health Services Grant for Youth Resiliency.

TIPPECANOE COUNTY, Ind. (WLFI) — By the end of the current school year, more than 30,000 children will have been impacted by a North Central Health Services Grant for Youth Resiliency.

NCHS awarded $6 million in grants to schools in an eight county area, including the Lafayette and Tippecanoe School Corporations. 

As part of Mental Health Awareness Month, Meridian Addiction and Recovery Center's Stafka Poweleit told us on News 18 at Noon earlier on Thursday that one of those tools involves helping children understand the language of talking through their emotions.

"When we see that a child is struggling, they may not be able to tell us what that means," Poweleit said. "So we need to help them understand what does it mean to feel stressed, what does it mean to feel frustrated, what is angry?  What is anxious, what is sad? So that when they're telling us what they're feeling, they can accurately tell us what it is."

North Central Health Services said the number of kids reporting at least one major depressive episode rose 71% from 2011 to 2017.

In 2015, the number of Indiana high school students who had seriously considered suicide was nearly 20% the third-highest rate in the nation.