{"id":409520,"date":"2026-05-03T07:58:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T07:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/409520\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T07:58:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T07:58:08","slug":"plaques-unveiled-across-torbay-to-encourage-mental-health-chats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/409520\/","title":{"rendered":"Plaques unveiled across Torbay to encourage mental health chats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The initiative formed part of the Torbay Suicide Prevention Action Plan with the aim to make it easier for people to access help, project leaders said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They said it hoped they would encourage people to &#8220;reach out in whatever way feels right for them&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Speaking to someone in person or by phone, sending a text, reading a story of hope, or accessing guidance on how to support others,&#8221; they added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The council said it wanted to install plaques on existing benches across the area. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It added that plaques had been sent to Torquay, Paignton and Brixham rugby clubs, along with pubs across the Bay.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Tranter said: &#8220;Sharing stories of recovery and hope is a proven protective factor.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The initiative formed part of the Torbay Suicide Prevention Action Plan with the aim to make it easier&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":409521,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[134,554,555,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-409520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-health","tag-mental-health","tag-mentalhealth","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=409520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409520\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/409521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}