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A mental health project that began in 2019 is now being expanded to five more schools across the province, the Saskatchewan government announced on Thursday.
Aimed to provide students with more support for their mental health and well being, the “Mental Health Capacity Building” (MHCB) program provides more counselling staff in schools that hope to identify and intervene mental health issues students may be facing soon than later.
The province announced the program’s expansion at A.E. Peacock Collegiate in Moose Jaw.
A total of 15 schools are now part of the program.
“If we have services in our building where we can assist students and give them some strategies and techniques, that sense of belonging, that sense of well being, they’ll come to school and we’ll be able to address their academic needs as well, …
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