Lives Worth Living co-ordinator Paul "Pup" Chamberlain. Photo / Toni Williams
Money raised from a pre-season Crusaders-Hurricanes rugby match at Ashburton Showgrounds will help mental health and wellbeing services in Mid Canterbury.
The $7300 raised, through the sale of tickets and the contribution by Crusaders management, will go towards Lives Worth Living programmes such as Waves, a post-suicide programme to start
in February, and to the development and implementation of a best-practice prevention programme due to start in March.
It will allow a prevention programme and can be tailored to all situations and groups whether it is farmers, students or elderly people.
Lives Worth Living is a part of Safer Mid Canterbury.
Lives Worth Living co-ordinator Pup Chamberlain likened the prevention programme to being the mental wellness equivalent that first-aid training gave to physical needs.
