A set of programs to improve the concept of mental health in the school community

To promote the concept of mental health and the development of health awareness, “Riyadh Education” presents a set of programs and activities aimed at increasing education that benefits members of the school community.
This initiative comes in partnership with the National Center for the Promotion of Mental Health.
Dr Hamad Al-Hajri, director of school health affairs, said the joint cooperation will include a number of areas, such as providing a package of programs and activities for Riyadh education employees. and their families to improve the concept of mental health, provide free psychological counseling, send phone messages, print and distribute specialized mental health brochures, organize health exhibitions and celebrate World Mental Health Day.
He added that the cooperation with the National Center for the Promotion of Mental Health is in the interest of both parties to activate their national and community role in advancing community services and improving the quality of healthy life, by distributing cooperation roles and joint tasks for each department. related to Riyadh’s education by virtue of its jurisdiction.
Al-Hajri pointed out that the National Center for Mental Health, in cooperation with Riyadh School Health Affairs in Education, seeks to promote mental health in the educational community, spreading culture and awareness of mental illness , their causes and methods of caring for them, and helping the mentally ill and their families to obtain curative and rehabilitative services, and the ambition to achieve To a better life, as an integral part of general health of the human being, by strengthening the means of prevention of the risks of mental disorders within the framework of preventive measures.