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A first-of-its-kind service has been launched to provide support to Glasgow primary and secondary school children who are finding it difficult to… ....
Updated Heather Rankine, Rosshall Academy pastoral care teacher (blue top) pictured with pupils who are all mental health ambassadors at the school. Photograph by Colin Mearns.14 May 2021.For GT, see story by Cat Stewart.. A MENTAL health support system for Glasgow’s young people has already helped save one life. And now a roll out of the Togetherall scheme will include everyone in the city aged up to 24 as part of a focus on making Glasgow a nurturing city. Barry Syme, City Principal Psychologist, said work in schools in crucial to give pupils supports to help prevent problems escalating. Last year Glasgow became the first education department to invest in Togetherall, an online platform giving mental health support to 16 to 18-year-olds. ....
Each one of these stories is an individual tragedy of a loved life ended too soon. But with each story we started to form a wider picture of an issue affecting our city but one that people were still uncomfortable to talk about. We decided, to coincide with Mental Health Awareness Week, to write a week-long series of stories looking at that still-taboo subject - suicide. Our team wanted to be as sensitive and responsible as we possibly could so we ve been liaising with the media team at Samaritans Scotland to ask for guidance and advice on our reporting. One of the biggest things we want to achieve this week is getting people talking. ....