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Beauty Queen Advocates for Kids on Capitol Hill

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(KCPW News) Hundreds of people roam the halls of Utah Legislature hoping to bend the ear of a state lawmaker. One young woman stands out. She's a beauty queen with a political platform. KCPW speaks with Miss Black Utah-USA:

 


23-year old Sarah Hogan is the current Miss Black Utah USA. She grew up in Orem and is in the last year of her master's program at Johns Hopkins University. KCPW's Julie Rose produced that piece.


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1. Tambra Stevenson said:

Providing health care coverage from the children of Utah is similar to the issue faced among children in the U.S. and the Gulf. Particularly community mental health preventive services for trauma, stress, depression, and anxiety as important when we think about the root cause to abuse, HIV/AIDS, suicide, homicide, intentional injuries, teen pregngancy to name a few. Researchers have become to better understand mental health; however we need more consumer mental health information, provider and services along with breaking the stigma. Possibly calling them crisis communication or behavioral health specialists might be more pallatable.

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