Mikeysline in Inverness sets up new service for secondary school children By Val Sweeney
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Updated: 10:45, 30 January 2021
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A NEW service is being piloted in the Highlands to help young people experiencing emotional distress or mental issues.
It is being launched by suicide prevention charity, Mikeysline, at the start of Children s Mental Health Week and will be mainly aimed at those of secondary school age.
The new service starts on Monday and aims to encourage young people to reach out for support if they are struggling with difficult thoughts and feelings and their mental health in general.
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We re making this important information available without a subscription as a public service. But we depend on reader support to do this work. Please consider supporting independent journalism in Alaska, at just $1.99 for the first month of your subscription. A factory trawler joined a growing list of seafood processors and vessels in Alaska’s Aleutian Islands that have experienced COVID-19 outbreaks recently. Twenty members of the 40-member crew on the factory trawler Araho, owned by the O’Hara Corp., tested positive for the virus, the City of Unalaska said Friday. Upon arrival in Unalaska from Seattle on Wednesday night, a couple of crew members reported symptoms of COVID-19, according to Unalaska city manager Erin Reinders, who said testing began when the vessel arrived. She said there’s a plan being developed to coordinate care of people who tested positive and what to do with the others.
COVID-19 has hit another processing plant operated by fishing giant Trident Seafoods this time aboard one of the corporation's massive factory trawlers,
Trident Seafoods reports 266 total virus cases at Aleutian plant plus small outbreak on vessel in Dutch Harbor Published January 28
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We re making this important information available without a subscription as a public service. But we depend on reader support to do this work. Please consider supporting independent journalism in Alaska, at just $1.99 for the first month of your subscription. Trident Seafoods is reporting COVID-19 cases among more than a third of the roughly 705 workers at the company’s remote Akutan processing plant, which is North America’s largest. The company on Thursday reported 266 workers tested positive for the virus this week with nearly all testing complete.