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Education Dept. spearheads suicide awareness initiative
— gets support from Miss Guyana-World
In an attempt to help tackle suicide, a mental health challenge which too often manifests in the society, the Department of Education of Region Three has introduced a Suicide Awareness programme.
Lisa Punch interacts with students at Thursday’s forum.
The initiative, according to Guidance and Counselling Officer, Kevin Reddy, of the Guidance and Counselling Unit of the Education Department, is one designed to help students learn to recognise the signs of depression and other indicators that can lead to suicide.
At a forum hosted at the East Bank Essequibo Parika/Salem Secondary School on Thursday students were enlightened to where counselling and other help could be accessed.
Thursday’s forum was graced by Miss Guyana-World, Lisa Punch, and her POTS team. POTS is the acronym for Prevention of Teen Suicide, a platform that Punch has embraced as part of her ‘Beauty with Purpose’ campaign.
Punch and team, according to Reddy, were able to highlight a number of crucial factors that can help to arrest the suicide challenge.
“They highlighted the importance of talking to someone if they are facing any personal problem…” said Reddy as he disclosed that students were also granted photo opportunities with the Beauty queen as a bonus.
Similar activities spearheaded by the Region Three Department of Education were held at the Vergenoegen and Zeeburg Secondary Schools and also gained support from Punch.
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