Day was held at Liceo No. 1 on mental health care
The first instance of the 2nd edition of the Welfare Program that aims at the care of mental health was carried out this Thursday, July 31 and was attended by dozens of students and teachers from the Department of the Secondary Education Centers.
The protagonists of this exchange space, which will have two more days from here at the end of the year, coincide with the need to multiply these types of initiatives.
“We are very happy with the day. This is the well -being project in its 2nd edition, something that is born in Cerro Largo at the initiative of the Department of Educational Coordination and Integration Unit and that has transcended borders of the department” The psychologist Karina Zaballa highlighted.
“We have received the good news that from the high school authorities requested the possibility that this initiative would be replicated in other departments, including in Montevideo.” broad.
“Here is all present secondary education, from the private ones to CECAP that is part of non -formal education. This implies nuclear to the gurises around coexistence to be able to speak of such an important issue as mental health” The National Coordinator of the Comprehensive Student Department argued.
Fundamental creation of areas of participation
Ramiro is a student of the Departmental Lyceum No. 1 and since last year he has been working on well -being. “We have made various workshops in which we have nourished with the participation of different professionals. We also learn and tial among us adolescents that are more or less the target group of this project” He told The Daily Professional.
“We have felt very comfortable, super well received, listened to mainly as representatives of adolescents and students. I feel that everything the professionals do as is the case of Karina to contain adolescents and students. Actually, the entire educational center” He stressed.
“It seems important to us that there are these types of activities. Adolescents and education team should be heard. Mental health would have to be promoted how to prevent behaviors such as suicide. They are issues to talk about. We must erase those taboos. Things do not have to keep things because if it does not end up having a bad time,” said Ramiro.
A task of health and education
Zaballa considered that the most important thing is the footprint that this program is leaving in adolescents and young people. “It is what we are looking for. We want to get certain taboos as Ramiro said that things are not spoken. Things are spoken and health has to be on the table.” He raised.
“When we talk about health, we refer to integral health and not just mental health,” he said. “There is also that that mental health is relegated. It is health in general and is not relegated, it is at the Education Board. We have achieved an excellent articulation with the Departmental Health Directorate, also with private health” projection.
The officials officials under certain dynamics. One of them was made by the students and referents of CECAP and another for Camcel. “This means that we achieved an articulation with both public and private health. The Licensed Marcos Caballero came with his team to work with us in this of continuing bridges and weaving containment networks because we can do not. “Teenage are issues to address them together” He ended up expressing the psychologist Karina Zaballa.
