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TVSDB Listening To Students About Mental Health Concerns

Friday, 26 August 2016 05:19

Student meetings about mental health have helped communicate key concerns to members of the TVDSB.

WOODSTOCK - All summer long students from various high schools in Woodstock have been meeting at Southside Park on Mondays. They talk about suicide prevention and brain storm ways to make things better for students.

Members of the Thames Valley District School Board have been attending the meetings as well and are learning a lot.

Mental Health Lead with the TVSDB Gail Lalonde tells Heart FM they now realize they have to a better job of informing students about the resources available to them.

"Every school has trained mental health professionals and every school has ASIST trained staff in addition to mental health professionals. But we learned very quickly from conversations with the students that they didn't know who those people were."

Lalonde adds the students have helped them with the launch of their new web site and social media platforms.

"The website needs to appeal to youth if we really want the youth to use it so we're launching our new website early next week. They have been invaluable in really picking it apart and saying, 'You know what this works and this doesn't work and if you put this here it will be more appealing, you'd catch our eye and we would be more likely to visit it.'"

The students and school board members are going to continue to meet at the park when school starts in September on Mondays at 3 p.m.

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