World Jenny's Day
World Jenny's Day uses performing arts and the arts to normalise conversation around depression, suicide (particularly in teens) and their solutions.
Also calledWJD
Observed byWorldwide
TypeInternational
Significance
  • World Mental Health Day
  • Teen Mental Health
  • Suicide Awareness
  • Suicide Prevention
Date10 October
Next time10 October 2024 (2024-10-10)
FrequencyAnnual
First time2020 (2020)
Related toWorld Mental Health Day, National Suicide Prevention Week

World Jenny's Day is an awareness day that takes place every year on 10 October, since 2020. It was founded by Jenetta Barry,[1] who lost her sixteen-year-old daughter, Jenny, to suicide.[2] The day was chosen as Jenny died on World Mental Health Day

Whilst bringing awareness to teen suicide - and suicide in general - World Jenny's Day specifically addresses the de-stigmatisation of conversation around suicide, and to normalise conversations between people around mental health and suicide prevention.

WJD makes use of the arts and performing arts as a way to convey their messaging, which happens throughout the year, with festivities culminating on the 10th of October.

Endorsements

Through its various fundraising initiatives and its campaigns, WJD is actively endorsed by UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak[3][4] as well as British Gold paralympian Karen Darke MBE.[5]

Darke - as an ambassador to WJD, rode with similarly physically diverse athletes, in August 2023, on her modified arm-powered tricycle across the "Roof of Africa" as a fundraiser for WJD.[6]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Leitelmayer, Ollie (17 October 2021). "Oxford mum who blamed herself for daughter's suicide starts charity to help others". OxfordshireLive. Retrieved 15 July 2023.
  2. ↑ "'The last conversation I had with my 16-year-old daughter was a screaming row'". OK. 9 October 2021. Retrieved 16 July 2023.
  3. ↑ "Supported By Rishi Sunak – The Amazing Mother of Daughter Suicide Victim Changing the World". Psychreg. 10 July 2023. Retrieved 15 July 2023.
  4. ↑ "PM Rishi Sunak Supports and Endorses World Jenny's Day". World Jenny's Day. Retrieved 15 July 2023.
  5. ↑ Shah, Niyati. "Join Karen Darke on Kilimanjaro Hike & Kenya Safari". Voice of Specially Abled People. SAP. Retrieved 15 July 2023.
  6. ↑ "Karen Darke MBE - Paralympic Cyclist - World Jenny's Day Safari Cycle Fundraiser". Youtube. World Jenny's Day. Retrieved 15 July 2023.
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