Suicide prevention day (10.09.2023)special 

programmes

TIME: 10.30 am – 11.45 am

 The counsellor Shruti BS interacted with B.Sc. IC (S3) students and she reported that building rapport with this team  was easy. She discussed the importance of Suicide Prevention Day  and the various reasons behind suicide as per the population statistics of suicide. Later, the counsellor discussed the theme "creating hope through action “, the importance of implementing action plans to prevent suicide in our society, and the importance of WHO’s intervention strategy ‘LIVE-LIFE’. The counsellor wraps up the session by discussing the various self-care strategies.

Time: 11.45 pm – 12.45 pm

Second session was with M. Com (S1 & S3) students.

This group was a little more serious. They were totally new batch to JEEVANI project. The counsellor gave a brief introduction of the project. As a part of building rapport, the counsellor asked them about their college life, future goals, and about their faculties. Rapport building was not easy with this group because all of them had ego-defence mechanisms. However, with the partial rapport with the students, the counsellor discussed the relevance of suicide prevention day, population statistics of suicide, and the importance of the theme, ‘creating hope through action’. The counsellor ended the session by discussing the importance of building resilience among emerging adults.

Time: 2.45 pm – 4.00 pm

A general awareness special session on suicide prevention was held for students in the college seminar hall to round off the day. Smt. Preetha M V, the jeevani teacher in charge, gave an introductory statement, and  first-year BA economics student Smt. Haira offered the vote of thanks. 56 student benefited this session.