Mental health program at CCHS offering summer activities for local youth
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It’s been a busy summer so far for the Mental Health Capacity Building Program based at La Ronge’s Churchill Community High School.
“It will be a year at the end of August that we’ve had it and it is all about creating more mental health in the curriculum, more teaching about mental health in the classrooms, in everyday life in the school and, eventually, branching out to the parents and the community,” program coordinator Emma Smallwood said.
“We will do presentations about stress, anxiety, drug use, alcohol use, depending on what is really needed in the schools. We look at surveys to see what students and teachers are struggling with, and then we try to navigate what we are going to present on that or what we are going to teach.”
Smallwood, along with program promoter Leah Fitch Halkett, run the program throughout the school year and during the summer as well. They were initially offering it this summer to Churchill students between Grade 7 and 12, but they’ve since opened it up to a broader demographic.
