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Delicia Raveenthrarajan is a motivational speaker and activist. Delicia has a strong fervor for helping others and is an active volunteer internationally as well as a passionate motivational speaker. Delicia’s public speaking journey started at a very early age but she started pursuing speaking professionally at the age of 12 in 2013. Delicia’s experience ranges from her work with ME to WE, to schools, universities and places of work, to conferences, summits and events. Delicia has worked across North America and around the world in order to share her story and advocate for young people. Delicia specializes as a Mental Health speaker and has worked as a mental health advocate and speaker since 2016.
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Mental Health Speaker
Delicia has worked as a mental health speaker since 2016. What started as a few small conversations in her community about ending the stigma, soon turned into an international platform to share her story to young people, educators, parents and fellow advocates. In addition to speaking, Delicia began to run workshops as well as publish articles on youth mental health and well-being with platforms such as Teen Vogue. Delicia has also recently collaborated with WE on the launch of their WE Well-Being Program.
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Delicia's mental health speeches are often geared towards:
student audiences educator training and workshops government policy conferences and events advocate and activist well-being parent audiences general awareness |
About "Your Student With a Story"
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This video is based off Delicia's "Letter to a High School Teacher From an A+ Student with a Mental Illness," penned to educators that she has crossed paths with. As a high functioning student, dealing with mental health challenges, Delicia often faced roadblocks in the education system due to stigma and a lack of education and adequate resources. Subsequently, she turned her frustrations and challenges into a story that would help those around her better understand her realities. This letter was later published, acting as a resource and example for educators who work with students on a daily basis, all of whom have their own stories. After seeing the journey of her letter come to life, Delicia worked in collaboration with the Toronto District School Board in order to turn her letter into a video, telling her story and asking educators to go forward with an open heart and mind.
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