Support for at-risk youths

An underlying and undetected mental health epidemic is causing young at-risk people to turn to alcohol, drugs and, possibly, suicide.

But a community group in Co Cork is helping to buck the trend in identifying, and assisting at-risk second- and third-level students along with their families.

The group, backed by professional people who offered their services voluntarily, is currently assisting more than 200 families in the greater Kinsale area which encompasses five neighbouring parishes.