This year's CWA Awareness Week will shine a light on the issue of mental health and support services in regional, rural and remote communities particularly as they relate to women and how everyone can make a difference.
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Branches are being urged to promote the important of starting a "Sconversation", an informal catch up with friends on a regular basis.
The organisation wants women - and men - to Start a Sconversation as a way of encouraging people to air their feelings and boost their mental well-being.
Members of the Port Macquarie CWA Evening Branch, with no scone cooking fans in their ranks, decided they would tweak the Sconversation and have a slice-a-thon instead.
The challenge was issued to various local identities to cook a slice better than the CWA ladies. Accepting the challenge has seen Leslie Williams MP, mayor, Peta Pinson and Port News editor Tracey Fairhurst throw their hats into the slice tin.
Branch members are excited to have teachers and students from Hastings Secondary College also accept the challenge.
Students are very keen to try out their cooking skills and have asked that money raised from their slices be donated to Headspace, a local organisation dealing with youth mental health.
Branch members will be manning an information stand in centre court at Port Central Shopping Centre from Monday, September 2-7.