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FOR the past two years, a partnership of youth and mental health services, led by the Murray Industry and Community Education Employment Partnership, has hosted a youth mental health forum in Albury.
The forum is aimed at helping young people to understand depression and other mental illness and overcome the difficulties and stigma they present.
Guest speakers, a panel of health professionals and community leaders guide 150 students through ways they can help themselves and their peers.
But the partnership and other NSW-based organisations are set to lose their federal funding before the end of the year, putting at risk the future of the event next year.
Next month’s third forum will go ahead at the Albury Entertainment Centre, partly due to a sponsorship deal with WAW Credit Union, which secured $1600 towards its costs.
Congratulations must go to WAW for helping the forum, with marketing manager Linda Butler saying it was an easy decision to support such a worthwhile cause.
Hopefully that is the same attitude that prevails when remaining organisers go looking for support to ensure the event goes ahead next year.