The Hamilton County Reporter
WESTFIELD, Ind. (The REPORTER) — Westfield Excessive College’s Robbie’s Hope Membership is welcoming everybody to the IMMI Convention Heart on Could 14 with an evening to find out about teen psychological well being and suicide consciousness.
Attendees will have the ability to hear from a number of scholar audio system from WHS and hearken to highschool performers play. A wide range of appetizers and desserts shall be out there to company. Don’t overlook to position bets on the silent public sale gadgets, too.
The host for the night shall be Westfield’s personal Robbie’s Hope Membership members. Common ticket admission is $25, and you may reserve a desk with eight chairs for $200. Sponsorship ranges embody: “Its OK to Not Be OK” with one reserved chair for $250, “H.O.P.E Maintain On, Ache Ends” with two reserved chairs for $500, “A Smile is the Shortest Distance Between Two Folks” with all eight chairs reserved for $1,000, and “In a World The place You Can Be Something, Be Form” which is the title sponsor for $2,500. All cash raised goes again to the membership and worldwide group, Robbie’s Hope.
Westfield Washington Faculties (WWS) Coordinator of Social and Emotional Studying, Kyler Miller, tells the significance of adults having conversations with adolescents about psychological well being.
“We’re excited to assist our scholar leaders working exhausting to raise the dialog round psychological well being to interrupt the stigma of in search of assist,” Miller stated. “The Psychological Well being Gala in Could shall be an effective way to deliver our group collectively to listen to instantly from our college students as we search to strengthen the net of assist for all.”
Members of the scholar authorities have aided Robbie’s Hope Membership in organizing the upcoming occasion. WHS Scholar Physique President Cooper Tinsley applauds the scholars’ exhausting work.
“I think about myself fortunate to attend a college and reside in a group that prioritizes psychological well being,” Cooper stated. “Organizations such because the WHS chapter of Robbie’s Hope have created a tradition that permits college students to ask for assist and be snug sufficient to simply accept it. I stay up for attending this Gala to assist my friends and their endeavors to get rid of psychological well being stigma.”
For those who or a neighborhood enterprise can be curious about supporting this occasion via the silent public sale, attain out to analiecee@gmail.com. Donating gadgets comparable to reward playing cards or different gadgets for the silent public sale can be an effective way to point out assist and promote your native enterprise.
“College students supporting friends even within the darkest moments is such a present,” WWS Coordinator of Household & Neighborhood Engagement Ashley Knott stated. “The Robbie’s Hope Membership is student-led, and we’re very pleased with their initiative to see the sunshine.” Tickets might be bought at bit.ly/RobbiesHopeGalaRegistration. The Westfield Schooling Basis is a 501(c)(3) non-profit group supporting WWS college students and employees. Click on the hyperlink above to hitch college students and construct consciousness round teen suicide via the WHS Robbies Hope Membership.
About Robbie’s Hope Membership
Robbie’s Hope Membership is a membership at Westfield Excessive College devoted to elevating consciousness and eradicating the stigma round teen psychological well being. The nationwide group, Robbie’s Hope, began a number of years in the past when a younger boy, Robbie Eckert, died by suicide. His mother and father started this group to assist educate different adults and stop them from feeling the identical loss they did. With the assistance of the worldwide group, Robbie’s Hope is attempting to chop teen suicide charges in half by the yr 2028.
