Title The Sam Project - awareness night for parents about mental health
Location  
Start Time 11/10/2018 7:00 PM
End Time 11/10/2018 8:30 PM
Description
As parents and educators, we all want our children to grow up to be happy, healthy and successful. There are more challenges today for both parents and especially children than ever before and these challenges are having an impact on us all. The mental health statistics in Australia tell a very sad story. One in 5 Australians on an annual basis has a mental health issue with 75% of those incidences starting during adolescence and suicide, which is typically a symptom of depression, is the biggest killer of young Australians.   The good news is that we can individually and collectively start the process of reducing these statistics, especially for our young Australians. Prevention, rather than treatment is the best approach. However, the greatest challenge to this approach is that there is a lack of real education on this topic, we don’t understand the causes or that there are early warning signs, what to do if you notice those early warning signs in yourself or others, how to get help for yourself or others, nor what to do to build a strong resilience to mental illness so as to reduce the likelihood of a mental illness . Building resilience is important to all Australians but its a particularly important topic for parents of infants and primary school children as its very important for us to have the knowledge and tools so as to help our children build resilience prior to them reaching adolescence. On the 11th October the school will host the Sam Project, who will be giving a mental health presentation at 7.00pm, where all of these issues will be addressed, including answering all of the many questions that you may have. The purpose of this notice is to encourage you to start organising yourself so that you can attend. There will be more information published as we get closer to the event.

 
If you require anything further from us please don’t hesitate to contact me.

 

 
Kind regards
 
Scott Harrod - Director
 

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All Day Event  
Recurrence  
Event Start Time 11/10/2018
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