Muju-gun Conducts School Tour Suicide Prevention Life Keeper Training Program

[Muju=Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Kim Han-ho] Muju County announced on the 13th that it plans to promote the health of children and adolescents by conducting school tour suicide prevention Life Keeper training education until November 30.

Life Keepers are trained individuals who quickly recognize suicide risk signals from family, friends, neighbors, and others around them and connect them to professionals. The education targets students of five local high schools, including Muju High School.

Muju County plans to invite Choi Gil-woong, a professional instructor for youth Life Keeper training, to visit each school 1 to 2 times (with up to 50 students per session) to conduct the training.

During this time, the training will include △‘Seeing’ education to identify verbal, behavioral, and situational signals implying suicide △‘Listening’ education to ask about actual suicidal thoughts and listen to reasons for death and reasons for living △‘Speaking’ education to share approaches and attitudes when discovering suicide risk and how to connect and refer to professional institutions.

In addition, Muju County will conduct smoking prevention and cessation education for kindergarten, elementary, middle, and high school students until December 24.

Considering the COVID-19 situation, both face-to-face and non-face-to-face education will be conducted, inviting professional instructors to lecture on topics such as ‘harm and diseases caused by smoking’.

Muju=Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Kim Han-ho stonepeak@asiae.co.kr

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