Clovis High School students recognized for artwork on mental health

CLOVIS, Calif. (KFSN) -- In conscionable a fewer days, a billboard successful eastbound cardinal Fresno volition look precise different.

As drivers caput northbound connected Clovis Avenue toward Clinton Avenue, they'll spot the artwork of Clovis High freshmen, Avi Nguyen and Mailene Gorospe.

"It was precise shocking and amazing, and it was precise unexpected," Nguyen said.

Avi and Mailene were 1 of 50 contention entries. Their poster ended up being chosen by different Clovis Unified students arsenic the winners of the 2nd Annual Mental Health Awareness Poster Contest.

In their poster, determination are 2 bears hugging and comforting 1 another.

Those bears are wrong a circle, which the students accidental correspond the bubble immoderate whitethorn enactment themselves successful erstwhile struggling with their intelligence health.

But connected the extracurricular of that bubble, beingness is inactive filled with beauty, represented by the flowers, hearts and butterflies.

Avi and Mailene's connection is conscionable arsenic almighty arsenic the art... "My struggles don't specify me, they refine me."

"A batch of radical contiguous specify themselves arsenic what they're atrocious at, oregon what they're not that bully at," Gorospe said. "We conscionable truly privation to instrumentality that connection and alteration it. We tin refine ourselves. It tin beryllium better."

As Fresno County Department of Behavioral Health looks for much ways to proceed their speech surrounding intelligence health, the part manager says it's refreshing to spot the younker usage their voice.

"It besides highlights the enactment that a batch of our acquisition partners, successful this case, Clovis Unified, person done to interruption the stigma and commencement uncovering ways to get kids to speech astir acceptance," Ahmad Bahrami said.

Throughout Mental Health Awareness Month, students connected astir of the district's campuses volition big wellness fairs, walk retired resources and fto their classmates cognize they person support.

The billboard is acceptable to spell up connected Tuesday, and it volition beryllium determination for the full period of May.

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