{"id":353981,"date":"2026-03-23T15:19:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T15:19:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/353981\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T15:19:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T15:19:19","slug":"over-12700-seek-mental-health-support-fbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/353981\/","title":{"rendered":"Over 12,700 seek mental health support \u2013 FBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/mental-health.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>[File Photo]<\/p>\n<p>More than 12,700 people sought help for mental health and social issues through Empower Pacific between 2023 and late 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Counsellor Reshmi Singh says the organisation responded to 12,758 cases across its seven operational sites, with referrals coming from hospitals, communities, families and the organisation\u2019s 24-hour helpline.<\/p>\n<p>She adds major issues reported to counsellors include mental health conditions such as anxiety and depression, relationship and family conflicts, child protection concerns, alcohol and drug abuse and gender-based violence.<\/p>\n<p>Singh states that many more cases remain unreported, as stigma and fear continue to prevent people from seeking help.<\/p>\n<p>Article continues after advertisement<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"viti-plus-link-article\" href=\"https:\/\/www.viti.plus\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Stream the best of Fiji on VITI+.  Anytime.  Anywhere.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"[File Photo] More than 12,700 people sought help for mental health and social issues through Empower Pacific between&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":60063,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[163,85,46,522,523],"class_list":["post-353981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-health","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-mental-health","tag-mentalhealth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=353981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353981\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}