HOLY CROSS OF BABAK

Brgy. Villarica, Babak District, Island Garden City of Samal

Government Recognition #169 s.1966
E-mail address: hcbabak1962@gmail.com
School Year 2020-2021

MENTAL HEALTH CARE PROGRAM

SCHOOL YEAR 2020-2021
Rationale: In this time of pandemic, mental health and well-being is a concern of all. Young individuals nowadays,
especially the students have boundless opportunities, nevertheless are also unprotected to an irresistible array of pressures,
expectations and difficulties that are part of existing in our multifaceted modern world and in this time of pandemic. Mental
health awareness is a significant matter for all educators, who are frequently the primary line of defense for their students.
Also, teaching professionals have recognized the influence that a student’s mental health has on learning and achievement.
Holy Cross of Babak is a Catholic institution that actively pursues the prevention of mental illness, as well as engage in
activities that help student’s better look after their mental health. The institution also upholds the welfare of all its students,
prevent psychological and psychosocial conditions and lessen the weight of mental diseases by cultivating access to quality
care in order to attain the highest possible level of health of the students in order for them to participate fully in the institution.

Specific Objectives Strategies/ Activities Time Frame Monitoring Desired

procedure Result/Outcome
To provide timely and 1. Information August 19, 2020  Online  Informed and
accurate information about dissemination for the attendance equipped school
COVID-19, its causes, parents, students,  Text brigades community.
effects, and the needed and the school  Letter to the
precautionary measures community parents,
necessary for the safety of  Conducting students,
the parents, students, and teachers and
teachers and staff in this disseminating staff
new normal setting. a video and
online
discussions
about COVID-
19, its
causes,
effects, and
the needed
precautionary
measures
 Online
discussion
about the
importance of
keeping our
body healthy
through
eating the
right food,
vitamins, and
proper
exercises to
boost our
immune
system.
To promote Mental Health 2. Stress management August 24, 2020-  Online  An emotionally and
Care Awareness to and coping April 15, 2021 attendance mentally prepared
prepare the parents, mechanisms for  Information students, parents,
students, as well as the students, parents, dissemination teachers and staff.
faculty and staff which is teachers and staff through text
essential to the new  Conduct brigades and
normal setting and in this online messenger
time of crisis discussion chat
about the  Letter to the
importance of parents,
maintaining a students, and
healthy teachers
lifestyle for
the school
community
 Provide video
presentation
of different
physical and
mental
activities for
the students,
parents, and
teachers and
staff
To create an essential 3. Orientation about the August 24-27, 2020  Online  Knowledgeable
action on how to prepare readiness on the Attendance via and all set parents,
the students, parents, school’s preemptive Facebook live students and
teachers and staff’s mental action on the new  Text brigade teachers in the
capabilities on the new normal way of delivering  Letter to the new normal setting
approaches and modalities the education parents,
in the new normal setting  Conduct an students and
orientation on the teachers
awareness of the
new normal setting
of delivering
education
To strengthen coverage of 4. Orientation about October 8-9, 2020  Attendance  Well-appointed
Mental Health Awareness Mental Health Sheet teachers in terms
for teachers to offer high Awareness  Outline of the of handling
quality service and  Conduct orientation Orientation students’ mental
monitoring to the students about the (essential health
significance of information, its
Mental Health significance,
Awareness to the and needed
faculty and staff of preparations)
the institution
 Provide necessary
information and
preparations on
how to cope up
when the students
are facing anxiety
conditions about
their academic
performance in
 this time of
pandemic
 To harness
capacities of
faculty and staff to
implement
promotive and
preventive
intervention in
mental health to
students.

To conduct advocacy 5. Computer Generated September 10-  Attendance  Well-informed and

activities such as Public Advocacy Information/ October 10, 2020 Sheet participative
Health Convention on Activities  Outline of the students in spite of
Mental Health,  Simulated Computer the new mode of
Observance of the World advocacy activities Generated education
Health Day, World Suicide in order for the Advocacy
Prevention Day, National students to actively Activities
Mental Health Week participate and be  Facebook
knowledgeable group page
about Mental
Health and Suicide
Preventions
To check and respond to 6. Virtual counseling October 5-April 21,  Messenger  To have a school
the status of the mental  Disseminating 2021 create rooms community with a
health and the well-being an online form  Google forms positive outlook
of the students, parents, to check the  Letter to the despite the
teachers and staff in this status of the parents, challenges in this
time of crisis mental health students, new normal setting
and the well- teachers and
being of the staff
students,
parents,
teachers and
staff in this time
of crisis
 Responding
through virtual
counseling
a. Individual
counseling
b. Group
counseling
To interconnect to parents, 7. Connect with August 24-April 21,  Messenger  Uphold teachers’
students, and colleagues others/Socializations 2021 groups rapport with
through enhancing  Conducting  Attendance colleagues and the
communicative Zumba and sheet for school community
competence other socialization
recreational
exercises and
disseminating
the videos
online
 Communicating
to parents and
 students
through
messenger
groups
To form a mentoring team 8. Peer mentoring for September 1-April  Attendance  Teachers welfare
vital to lessen the stress teachers 15, 2021 sheet and efficiency at
and enhancing the coping  Teachers will  Reflection/self- work
mechanisms of the be grouped and evaluation
teachers in this time of will be given papers
crisis. specific tasks;  Course outline
will conduct a of the program
meeting every
month or as
much as
needed. In the
groups,
everyone will
share his/her
thoughts and or
problems in
surmounting the
stress and
pressures of the
new normal
setting
 To alleviate the
stress, to give
resolutions, and
 to help ease the
problem(s)
faced by the
teachers in this
time of crisis

Prepared by:

Mark Dave F. Martizano

Shella May V. Rozano
Jeshell M. Villaabrille
Phoebe Gwyn Paulette G. Cuanas