Childcare, primary schools to teach about suicide, mental health

Depression and loneliness

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Three-year-olds in childcare and students from preschool and kindergarten upwards will be taught about suicide awareness and mental health as part of a $53 million Mental Health in Education program to be announced by the Turnbull government today.

More streamlined “postvention” strategies, with crisis teams deployed to schools when a suicide occurs, will also be put in place to prevent contagion suicides as childhood mental health issues soar.

 

More on the Daily Telegraph website.

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By Heba Kassoua
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Source: The Daily Telegraph

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