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Northern Ireland's £1.2bn mental health strategy has received just £9m in funding, committee hears – The Irish News irishnews.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from irishnews.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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A photo from the National Archives of Norway depicts the Armenian leader Papasyan seeing what's left after the horrendous murders near Deir-ez-Zor in 1915-1916. (Image: Bodil Katharine Biørn - National Archives of Norway/Wikipedia) Just one week prior to his 1939 invasion of Poland and the mass slaughter that followed, Adolf Hitler asked rhetorically, “Who, after all, speaks today of the annihilation of the Armenians?” Such a depraved sentiment indicates why it is so significant that President Joe Biden, this past Saturday, became the first US President to formally classify the persecution committed against the Armenian Christians in Ottoman Turkey from 1915-1923 as “genocide”.
Une femme sur dix a déjà fait une fausse couche, estime un nouveau rapport qui dénonce un phénomène trop souvent "minimisé" francetvinfo.fr - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from francetvinfo.fr Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Northern Ireland’s interim Mental Health Champion has urged people to reach out to those who might be struggling as she warned of the impact of the pandemic. Professor Siobhan O’Neill made the call as she joined Health Minister Robin Swann and chief medical officer Dr Michael McBride at their weekly Stormont briefing. Prof O’Neill said that while there was no indication suicide rates had increased during the Covid-19 crisis, there was data that indicated more people in Northern Ireland were having suicidal thoughts. She predicted that numbers seeking mental health services were set to increase. “There’s some research data coming through that’s telling us that more people feel suicidal, that many people feel that life is not worth living and people are losing hope, and that’s very, very worrying to hear that,” she said.
BBC News By Robbie Meredith Published media caption'They were left completely powerless' - Call for NI children to have mental health checks Things that "made life meaningful" have been taken from children and young people due to lockdowns and the coronavirus pandemic, according NI's mental health champion Professor Siobhan O'Neill. She said children should be offered mental health assessments this summer. It would be part of a large-scale wellbeing scheme. Prof O'Neill said children had been deprived of friend and teacher contact, as well sport and outdoor play. She told MLAs on Stormont's education committee she was "increasingly concerned about the mental health of our young people and the impact the pandemic has had on them".
BBC News 'They were left completely powerless' Close Things that "made life meaningful" have been taken from children and young people due to lockdowns and the coronavirus pandemic, according to NI's mental health champion Professor Siobhan O'Neill. She wants children to be offered mental health assessments this summer. It would be part of a large-scale wellbeing scheme. Prof O'Neill said children had been deprived of friend and teacher contact, as well sport and outdoor play. She told MLAs on Stormont's education committee she was "increasingly concerned about the mental health of our young people and the impact the pandemic has had on them".