LIVE4LIFE
Korumburra Secondary College
RAISING AWARENESS
Live4Life is a mental health program raising awareness and is across Bass Coast and South Gippsland schools.
Our year 9 students (Mia, Marley, Janae, Gemma and Amelia) are the Live4Life Crew who are mental health awareness representatives. They have been working on this throughout the year, with a focus on making a difference in the school and community regarding youth mental health.
They created a mental health theme for the year, and it is “Check In, Reach Out” – this means checking in with your friends but also reaching out if you need to.
Our year 8 students completed 3 mental health first aid sessions in term 3. Wednesday 13th was about not only celebrating this, but as a refresher around what was presented and learnt in these sessions.
The action plan steps that are focused on are…
Look – for warning signs
Ask – how they are
Listen - up
Help - them connect with an adult
Your friendship – is important
Wednesday 13th was about raising awareness about mental health, and reducing stereotypes, which means removing negative thoughts, judgements and opinions away from mental health. The afternoon was a celebration of what the year 8’s have achieved as part of their Mental Health First Aid Training.
The activities that the year 9’s organised were food, a photo booth with face painting and glitter hairspray, positive chalk messages for everyone to write and draw, giant games and a spinning wheel with questions and prizes and a table set up for bracelet making and mindfulness colouring.
Congratulations to Mia, Marley, Janae, Gemma and Amelia for their great work. It has been a pleasure watching them grow in confidence and organise something for our year 8 students.
