According to Barbadian psychologist Shawn Clarke, an "alarming" number of Barbadian students are struggling with mental health issues.
The CEO/director of Supreme Counselling for Personal Development (SCPD) was speaking on Wednesday at the Hilton
The organisation Supreme Counselling for Personal Development is looking for private sector partnerships with the roll-out of its new self improvement programmes catering to young people.During a ceremony held at the Hilton Barbados on Wednesday, chief executive officer of the non-governmental organisation, Shawn Clarke, said that under the group’s Reach One, Save One initiative, Supreme Counselling has been assisting 1 570 students with personal development issues in six secondary schools across the island.However, Clarke said the organisation wanted to launch two new programmes under the Reach One Save One umbrella, which would strengthen the outreach services of the organisation and provide more self empowering opportunities for young people to access.The two new programmes, Family In Therapy (FIT), which focuses on the family and home and Community Assistance Programme (CAP), would engage at-risk youth at the community level in various activities.
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On Caribbean Wellness Day (September 10), the CEO of Supreme Counselling for Personal Development Shawn Clarke admits that he is "very concerned" about the number of suicides that have happened in Barbados for a small population of this size in recen