Mental health awareness club opening membership to all Schuylkill Haven High School students
Reading EagleSep 16, 2022
Sep. 16—A popular club that aims to shatter the silence surrounding suicide, depression and other issues facing teens is opening its
The meaning of Aevidum — "I've got your back" — is also the club's goal of offering support and positivity for students suffering from mental health issues.
Aevidum plans to hold activities that spread a message of hope, according to the handful of students and adult club advisers who spoke to the board.
The club was created in 2003 by students at
Aevidum will sponsor activities that focus on promoting positivity, like having students trace their hand and write a positive message on it, then hanging the tracings around the school to show that we're all in this together, said
"I joined Aevidum because I personally know a lot of people who have struggled with different mental illnesses, and I want to educate people," Muth said.
"We anticipate quite a large number of students (will join)," said
Movie nights
Also at Wednesday's meeting, Dr.
"We don't have anything locally to run movies," Morgan noted.
Morgan said community movie nights in the 450-seat auditorium could be a fundraising opportunity for student groups that could work the concession stand.
She said the auditorium's projector screen has been replaced and a new projector is slated to be installed. She said she was able to obtain a license to screen movies from major production companies.
Morgan said she hopes to have the auditorium's rigging inspected in time for a district-sponsored holiday movie night.
"We're thinking maybe
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