Creating awareness & helping to reduce stigma about mental illness, bullying and suicide in children and teenagers.
Tracey Maxfield is a retired nurse with over 36 years’ experience in gerontology, mental health, and dementia care. She is a regular guest on well-known author and radio host Peter Rosenberger’s show Hope For the Caregiver on Sirius radio. Tracey has written multiple articles on dementia care, medical research and mental illness/bullying in teenagers. She is the Purple Angel Dementia Ambassador for the Okanagan. B.C. and NAASCA Ambassador for B.C., Canada.
Escaping the Rabbit Hole: my journey through depression is Tracey’s first book and has received international rave reviews. Since the release of her book, Tracey has become a staunch advocate for Mental Illness and Mental Health Awareness and Bullying and completed the course, Bringing Mental Health to Schools.
Did you know that 1 in 5 children and teenagers have a mental illness and that 50% of all lifetime mental illnesses show signs by age 14 and 75% by age 24? If left untreated, there is a very high likelihood of high school dropout, being bullied, engaging in risky behaviours/substance abuse, joining a gang, committing a crime, becoming a bully, unemployment, suicide and death.
Binge Drinking Effects & How to Stop | Addiction Group June 3, 2021: Article reprinted with kind permission of AddictionGroup.org
When people think about substance abuse and addiction, they often imagine young adults living with this. While it’s true teenagers are at a higher risk for substance
https://www.cablecompare.com/blog/children-and-screen-time May 19, 2021: Reprinted with kind permission of Cablecompare.com
https://www.broadbandsearch.net/blog/cyber-bullying-statistics Reprinted with kind permission of James Miller of BroadBandsearch.net
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The Empowered Whistleblower with Dawn Westmoreland Listen to “Tracey Maxfield–Escaping the Rabbit Hole (Bullying)” on Spreaker.
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