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LE CONSEIL SCHOLAIRE CATHOLIQUE DU NOUVEL-ONTARIO

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SUDBURY – Le Conseil scolaire catholique du Nouvel-Ontario (CSCNO) has launched its Yellow Ribbon Campaign today in approximately 30 schools.

This campaign aims to inform students from Grade 7 to Grade 12 about the warning signs of suicide and provide them with ways to help or ask for help when a friend seems to be thinking about taking his own life.

In each school targeted by the campaign:

- An information booth has been set up

- A message has been read on the student radio

- Each class has written a message of hope or a positive thought

- Each adult in the school has received a yellow ribbon.

Each student has received a yellow card:

- It can be given to an adult to let him know that the student needs to talk and is having negative thoughts.

- It can be given to a friend to let him know that he does not seem to be feeling well and that he should be talking about it with an adult.

- It can be given to a friend to urge him to accompany the student to talk with an adult.

This initiative does not end on that day.

A campaign reminder will be heard weekly on the student radio and each school will pick one day per week where all staff members will wear their yellow ribbon, in order to remind the students that they are there to help them.

CSCNO Associate Director, Lyse-Anne Papineau, supports this initiative: "Our staff has always been concerned with our students’ well-being and success. Our wish is for them to develop at all levels, have confidence in themselves and become agents of change in their society. We are always there to help them, especially during difficult periods. We hope that the message they will remember from the Yellow Ribbon Campaign is that it’s okay to ask for help."

The Yellow Ribbon Campaign is an initiative of the Conseil scolaire catholique du Nouvel-Ontario, which was done in collaboration with the Club Richelieu Les Patriotes of Sudbury.

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