South Burnie turned blue for mental health awareness

The Advocate

DFA club South Burnie traded brown and yellow for blue and brown on Saturday, June 28, in an effort to raise awareness for mental health, while honouring one of its own, Kyle Gray who died in 2020.

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00:00We lost Kyle. One thing we really wanted to do was break the stigma around suicide and mental

00:12health and just really have people open up and be able to talk and not only that to be remember

00:18some people wear masks and just to be kind no matter who they are because we never know what

00:23anyone's going through. We started in 2022 with the Speak Up Stay Chatty game and it's been five

00:29years since we lost Kyle. The family hasn't been at the club as much the last few years but it's nice

00:35to see the young boys take it on board and really promote it like Sean, Redman was the one behind

00:41getting the jumpers. Toyota sponsored them so it's really great that the whole community is getting on board.

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