Pattaya will train volunteers and educational personnel how to support at-risk children and keep them out of danger.
Deputy Mayor Vichien Pongpanit said Dec. 8 that teachers and administrators from Pattaya’s 11 public schools, Banglamung School and Photisampan Pittayakarn will attend the Jan. 5-7 workshop at the Gazebo Resort in South Pattaya along with public-health volunteers.
The goal is to train the adults to cultivate, guide and provide advice to children in hopes they use good examples to succeed in life.
Teeraphon Srichan, director of the Pattaya Welfare Department, said the volunteers and teachers will be trained to monitor at-risk youths and detect when a crisis might develop, be it in the family, among friends or from outside influences.
Youths, Teeraphon said, are considered at risk when they are neglected or abused at home, get involved with drugs or become distracted by the vices in society.
