YFC High School Based Homecoming 2017: Jesus - in Him Alone

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The school year is about to end and to cultivate this school year with a grand and cool hype, CFC Youth for Christ Metro Manila – High School Based Program gives you the annual High School Based Homecoming 2017 entitled “Jesus: in Him Alone”. The event will take place on February 25, 2017 at the St. Mary’s Academy of Caloocan City, from 8:00AM to 5:00PM with a registration fee of 50 Pesos.

This aims to gather all YFC high school students all over Metro Manila, who are privileged to be in their respective schools, and who are blessed to serve the people they encounter, in one thanksgiving school year ender party. It also enables the youth to build new relationships with other students of different high schools, and to bring back the flavor of old friendships. Come and join us in a party like no other where everyone can dance and have fun with their peers. However, what makes it unique is the fact that Christ is also made known to the students throughout the whole event.

Invite all your YFC friends and schoolmates. Let’s continue to bring God’s high to the schools and celebrate His greatness in our lives and feel at home.

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Hontiveros Pushes for Mental Health Education and Services in Schools

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Akbayan Senator Risa Hontiveros urged school administrators and student leaders to integrate mental health promotion and services in their schools to respond to the mental health needs of students.

In a forum organized by the Youth Coalition for Mental Health at the University of Santo Tomas (UST), Hontiveros said that students spend a lot of time in their respective schools. However, she said that most schools are ill equipped to handle the mental health needs of their students.

Hontiveros, Chairperson of the Senate Committee on Health and Demography, filed Senate Bill No. 1190 or the Philippine Mental Health Act. The proposed measure aims to integrate mental health services and programs in the public health system, including in the schools, to institutionalize campus-based interventions and awareness campaigns for mental health. She said that the Philippines is one of the few countries in the world without a comprehensive mental health law.

"Our schools should not only be institutions of learning but also places to nurture sound mental health," Hontiveros said.


Suicide

Citing government data, Hontiveros said that there are 7 Filipinos who commit suicide each day. Meanwhile, 1 in 5 young people have thought about suicide and took steps towards it. The senator also said that the number of suicide cases in the country has steadily risen over a period of 20 years from 1992 to 2012.

"Many Filipinos, especially our young ones are suffering from the silent burden of impaired mental health. This is clearly the result of the country's lack of a mental health policy to address this serious health concern. We cannot allow this to continue," Hontiveros said.



Mental health and social media

Hontiveros urged the youth to tap the power of social media and start the discussion on mental health so that it will not be discussed in "hushed voices".

"If social media can help shape social movements and create positive change, it can surely help us raise awareness on mental health and fight the stigma surrounding mental illness," she said, citing the We Are Social Singapore's data that there are 47 million active Facebook accounts in the Philippines.

"It's time we give voice to people with mental health needs who are silently suffering in the dark due to the lack of mental health law. We need to reach out to them and tell them that they are not alone, that they should not suffer silently in the dark," Hontiveros concluded.

Washington D. C. Politics Take Bizarre Turn in Sci-Fi Dramedy Braindead this February on AXN

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BrainDead, a satirical sci-fi comedy thriller that pokes fun on partisan politics, airs on AXN this February.

In the alternate reality of Washington D. C. politics, documentary filmmaker Laurel Healy (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) starts work as a congressional staffer for her brother, Democratic Senator Luke Healy (Danny Pino), to help him out at his senate office. There, she stumbles upon an alien conspiracy where space bugs are eating the brains and taking control of members of Congress and Capitol Hill staffers.

Laurel then becomes an unlikely heroine as she teams up with Gareth Ritter (Aaron Tveit), a staffer for Republican Senator Red Wheatus (Tony Shalhoub), Gustav Triplett (Johnny Ray Gill), an eccentric genius who discovers the cause of all the strange happenings, and Rochelle Daudier (Nikki M. James), a medical doctor who helps them unravel the bugs mystery.

Together, they embark on a mission to find out how to stop the space invaders from further infecting people and ultimately taking over the world.

BrainDead airs every Thursday at 10:40pm, first & exclusive on AXN.







AXN is available on Sky Cable Channel 49, Destiny Cable Channel 61, Cignal Channel 121, Dream Satellite TV Channel 20, G Sat Channel 51, and Cablelink Channel 38. AXN HD is available on Sky Cable Channel 247.