Connacht TribunePublished 18 hours agoon April 23, 2022 Galway players and doctors Liam Silke and Owen Gallagher with Michael Geraghty, Galway Football Chairperson at the launch of West Be Well.The senior footballers of Galway and Mayo may be preparing to do battle on the path to All-Ireland glory on Sunday – but they are also uniting to help launch a new programme to help with mental health.West Be Well is a combined initiative of the HSE and the Connacht Council along with Community Healthcare West to actively promote positive mental health and wellbeing.And the Connacht Council – with both the Galway and Mayo County Boards – is using the big clash in Castlebar to officially launch a new partnership.Recently established, the West Be Well group collaborates with the HSE Connecting for Life – Ireland’s national strategy to prevent suicide – the Children and Young People’s Services Committee and Mindspace Mayo.One of the first initiatives of its kind, it promotes timely, safe, evidence-based mental health messages and local and national mental health supports and services by the HSE or other state-funded organisations as well as mental health and suicide prevention education and training programmes and events.It does so across a multi-channel…
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