What A Great Week
Hello World!
We recently had Mental Health Awareness Week, which was wonderful! We also had a panel called, ‘Suicide: Let’s Talk About It’. We had representatives from Avenue Community Centre, Saskatoon Suicide Support Group, an Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST) Facilitator, and Dr. Alex Wilson from the Department of Educational Foundations. The discussion was very interesting and each speaker’s topic overlapped well with the other speaker’s.
We also had a series of booths in the tunnel for the week and were handing out free apples, oranges, bananas, popcorn, condoms, lube, pamphlets, and buttons. The displays ranged from one for our Mood Disorder Support Group to a Canadian Mental Health Association Booth to a Feel good naked booth. We had lots of people asking questions and raised over $60 in donations to the Canadian Mental Health Association in Saskatoon (We were asking for pennies so $60 is a ridiculous amount of pennies). The week was very fun. I love working with the Peer Health Educators, they are all so wonderful and nice. It was also nice having my volunteers out in full force; they’re all very good at what they do!
Thank you to everyone who stopped by the tunnel or who helped out and made this week a success!
Alex
