TUCEE commence s*x and career counselling for JHS

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The Technology Ubiquity, Counselling and clean Environment in Education (TUCEE) has begun a sex and career counselling for Junior High school(JHS)students,

This is to resist negative pressures and overcome vices associated with adolescence.

The counselling seminar, under the theme: ?Empowering the next generation to create a fulfilling future? is aimed at providing the students with ample information on sex pressures and career choices.

Mrs Cecilia Tutu-Danquah, Chief Executive Officer of TUCEE, who said this at a day?s seminar for over 200 students from five schools in the Ashaiman municipality of the Greater Accra region over the weekend, noted that counselling services were crucial in the formative years of adolescence.

She observed that due to ineffective guidance and counselling in schools, teens become confused in their career choices and tend to engage in social vices.

Homosexuality and abortion cases among teens were on the rise, but it appears society has ignored the issues that affect the very foundations of the nation?s future, she said.

She said a sure way to achieve quality universal education for societal transformation was to promote quality and comprehensive person-centred guidance and counselling programmes in schools and communities.

She told the Ghana News Agency that the sad reality was the confusion students go through when choosing their programmes or courses to study at the Senior High School or the University.

Mrs Tutu-Danquah said as part of efforts to mitigate the situation, TUCEE was organising series of transformational seminars to guide and counsel students on negative pressures and vices of the 21st century.

The programme is targeted at the youth between the ages of 11 to 16 years, in both private and public schools across the country.

According to her, public schools are purported to have counsellors, but, most of them seemed dormant while most private schools woefully lacked stationed counsellors, culminating in unprofessional, unproductive and unprincipled counselling services.

In December last year, TUCEE unveiled a scheme designed to set up guidance and counselling centres in schools and communities across the country.

The Chief Executive Officer had expressed worry over the fading of Ghanaian traditions that allow community members to accept, support, discipline and guide children.

She decried parents? busy schedule, which does not allow them to guide, discipline or support their wards, forcing such children to turn to peers and strangers when confronted with psychological and societal challenges.

Mr Ibrahim Baidoo, Ashaiman, Chief Executive Officer of the Ashiaman Municipal Assembly advised the students to take their lives seriously and emulate responsible people in society.

He said the Ashaiman Assembly would create an enabling environment for the young ones to harness and apply their full potential towards national development.

The students were taken through topics such as illegal abortion, engaging in pre-marital sex, as well as the need for them to work towards set goals and priorities to become responsible adults. GNA

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