Busan Gijang-gun Provides Mental Health Screening Service for Young and Middle-aged Small Business Owners

Busan Gijang-gun, the Gijang-gun Small Business Association, and the Youth Startup Hub Center Station K are collaborating to protect the mental health of young and middle-aged small business owners in the region.

On the 6th, Gijang-gun announced that on the 3rd, it signed a business agreement with the Gijang-gun Small Business Association and the Youth Startup Hub Center Station K at the Gijang-gun Mental Health Welfare Center to support mental health services for young and middle-aged small business owners in the area.

Through this agreement, the Gijang-gun Mental Health Welfare Center will provide mental health programs and education to members of the Small Business Association and young and middle-aged entrepreneurs affiliated with Station K. In addition, various supports such as linking high-risk groups through mental health screenings (including QR) and counseling interventions will be promoted.

Officials from Gijang-gun, the Small Business Association, and Station K at the Youth Startup Hub Center are signing a business agreement to support mental health screening services for small business owners.

An official from the Gijang-gun Mental Health Welfare Center said, “We will actively support continuous mental health services to improve the mental health of young and middle-aged small business owners exhausted by the prolonged COVID-19 pandemic and to prevent suicide.”

The county health center has been operating the Mental Health Welfare Center under consignment to Haeundae Paik Hospital since 2018. It promotes welfare improvement for local mental illness patients and various suicide prevention and mental health promotion projects, and anyone residing in Gijang-gun can use the services free of charge.

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