MOH Launches School Mental Health Literacy Project Training

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Channel: Greater Belize Media | GBM · 2018 · News & Politics

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The Ministry of Health kicked off its Mental School Health Literacy project. A training of trainers’ three-day workshop, in partnership with PAHO and the Ministry of Education, aims to help schools better address youth mental health in an efficient, effective and inexpensive way. The plan is to train other teachers to implement the programme at the start of the 2019 school year. The regional initiative, which includes Guatemala, is reporting significant successes. It will be target twelve to seventeen-year-olds in high-schools in Belize. News Five’s Andrea Polanco reports.

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