Crisis sessions for schools: immediate help for traumatized students!

Crisis sessions for schools: immediate help for traumatized students!

On Sunday evening, a crisis meeting took place in Villach to initiate timely measures to support affected schools. In addition to school management and class directors, the State Office for State Security and Extremism Control as well as the crisis intervention team of the Red Cross. Education director Isabella Penz told ORF Carinthia that the main goal was to develop long -term support concepts. As early as Monday, crisis intervention teams will be present at several schools to help the students and teachers. The intervention teams are particularly focused on five schools in which witnesses need support for tragedy.

increasing needs for mental health

In an alarming context, the free school program "Strengthening", supported by AstraZeneca, is also expanded, such as the initiative sipcan . Over 100,000 children and adolescents in Austria show signs of depressive mood or already suffer from depression. While society is struggling with the consequences of pandemic and Ukraine War, Sipcan's reports alert: 22 % of girls and 10 % of the boys feel emotionally uncomfortable. The “Strengthening” program is intended to help promote psychological resilience and thus improve the health behavior of the students.

The initiative will continue in the next three school years and aim to offer schools comprehensive materials and support so that they can concentrate on the resilience of the students. AstraZenecas Country President Filippo Fontana emphasizes that a strong awareness of your strengths in children lems the foundation stone for a healthy growing up. Whether in Villach or in other parts of Austria, the urgency to react to the mental health of young people, is becoming increasingly clear.