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About TeensAttackingMentalHealth

Location:

Matshabeng, Gaborone, Phase 2 00000, BW

Mission Statement

We are a teen intervention aimed at helping teenagers navigate issues of mental health pertaining to school, family and immediate environment which comprises of factors such as beauty standards, rape and SA etc.

Description

SCHOOL

Here, our focus will not only be on giving academic counsel unique to each student’s weaknesses and strengths as well as promoting and implementing new strategies to help enhance the school experience. It shall also be panned to mending the emotional and mental association that teens have with school by addressing topics such as burn out, validation, disappointment and stagnation; cultivating new talents whilst simultaneously not demeaning school and finding harmony with all aspects of their life; balancing the desire to succeed with the need to be present.

Immediate environment

Lastly, we will move on to their immediate environment which comprises of: toxic friends, overall validation and fear of judgement, beauty standards, cyberbullying, rape and SA as well as fitting in (mismatched block). Strategies such as partnerships with dermatologists, finding personal style matches, campaigns for stricter punishments for rape and SA, taking a hobby approach and other activities to cut screen time as well as '’Journey’’ program in which we help teenagers to unearth themselves whilst stabilizing the foundation of the unique and ever evolving path that is them; their character, aspirations etc. will be employed.

For family, counseling and individual advice will be employed as well as mediating povs of both parents and teenagers.