By PRIOVOLOU AGELIKI | PSYCHOLOGIST
Dear friends,
Thank you for supporting our efforts dedicated to give help to young people impacted by self-harm, providing a safe space to talk, ask any questions and be honest about whats is going on with their lives. Please stay by us. We motivate professionals to come and help us covering as many people as possible. Kids and Youth are deep in selfinjury.
Our Services: Speaking & Conferences for kids, teens and families, Training professionals, Delivering meals and essentials, Giving therapies in public schools.
It is important to inform you, that there are no more psychologists in any public school in Greece due to the reduction of the number of employees in the public domain. Thus professors and teachers have to face any psychiatric, nevrotic, depressive case of students by themeselves.
We try to cover as fast as possible all public schools .to get the precise needs of each school. Unfortunately the average of children suffering from mental deseases, or selfharm nevrosis are more than 68% in Athens. We found schools with a percentage of 85% of selharmers, borderline or dipolar behavor,
Training professionals is urgent. Greece never experienced before the economic cirisis such a death tentance or depression in yourh. Training professionals such as psychologists, therapists and teachers, is the fastest way to cure the explotion of selfinjurey and mental deseases in our country. It is contradictory with the mentality and the mediteraenean life the impact that selfinury reflects in the society in total. The economic crisis, put for the first time in our country, under question the most basic human needs.
Insecurity is the base of the day life. Children live practicaly alone when parents are runing to cover with a pure income, new taxes, the moment where unemplyonment keeps on raising fast. There is no visible futur for the majority of the families. 1/4 of the population is affected by suicidal behavor or panic crisis, mental deseases... Selfinjury is mostly affecting the ages between 12-25 years old kids and youth.
HUG POINT is a point we try to creat in schools to keep informing kids where and how to find solutions. We try to keep contact with all kid's needs even the days we are not at their school. IT'S EXTREMELY difficult to approach all parents when they dont' have time to share with their kids. Thus, we take advantage of our charity shop, where 12 hours per day 2-3 psychologists are ready to give help to any kid who asks for.
It is an emergency need for youth to rebuild a safe environment to keep suicidal thoughts away of kids lives.
We believe that we should face Youth's health united in all countries. We believe that youth suffers in all countries that experienced the economic crisis.
Please support our efforts. United we can help youth
Open your HUG with us for youth.!
warm regards,
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