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To promote mental health in teenagers and young adults in secondary school. To make sure students have access to information needed. To inform students on the factors in our life that affect our mental health.
Our Social Issue
The awareness of mental health in secondary schools in Ireland.
Why We Chose It
This can affect the next generations in the future like our kids and their kids. This could affect them by change in weather, no food production, no clean water and no wildlife. The changes in weather could be that the weather could get warmer in the summer and colder in the winter. It could also cause major weather events like hurricanes, violent storms, droughts, wildfire, floods, tornados, extreme heat (heatwaves), hail, lightning, damaging winds. No food production could affect future generations because of extreme weather conditions which makes it difficult to produce food so the crops could fail, etc.
Our Goal
There will be a video we made, shown to classes to help educate our students even further. Some areas of our town look very deserted and forgotten about with loads of rubbish and abandoned buildings around so we have brainstormed how we can improve in these areas of the town. We plan on inviting everyone local and having fun activities like bowling with plastic bottles and a drawing competition to show us what they know about littering and if we should implement some drawings on bins in local schools, this will make them aware of this worldwide issue.
Our Innovative Action
Completed a survey to gather information. Upcycling class for our Transition Year students. In this class students learn how to reuse waste materials such as wood to make furniture and shelving that is then used for organization around the school. We spoke with a local recycling organisation about the work that they conduct, with the hope of gaining knowledge and information about recycling in our area. We also collaborated with another secondary school in the area. We are planning a launch day in our town to raise awareness on littering.
Our Impact
We feel like the students we surveyed at the start of our project did not know much about upcycling or how to reduce, reuse and recycle but now we are confident they are more familiar with the topic and will be more focused on how to fix the littering problem we have and continue to spread awareness. We have also hit a bigger audience when we worked with primary schools because it is easier for them to learn this at a young age.