Children's Mental Health
Celebrating Mental health week lets young people know that how they feel matters and they deserve to feel supported.
Protecting our mental health is easier than you might think. We can all do it every day, and with simple activities that help us feel OK, we’re better able to cope with life. It’s like brushing your teeth daily – important in preventing problems. It’s the same for our mental health. It can also be fun!
The theme for Children's Mental Health Week 2026 is 'This is My Place', and our aim is to support the systems around children and young people to help them feel they belong.
The more we understand about ourselves, the better we're prepared to tackle life's ups and downs. Helping children understand and accept themselves, means they start to build self-awareness. This allows them to develop the skills they need to cope with what life throws at them.
During Children’s Mental Health Week we want to celebrate children and young people building resilience, embracing self-awareness and forming strong connections with others.
https://www.childrensmentalhealthweek.org.uk/
Useful websites and resources
- Happier Minds - A mental wellbeing website for young people, parents/carers and school based staff in Dudley https://happierminds.org.uk/
- Place to Be https://www.place2be.org.uk/
- Mental Health https://www.mentalhealth.org.uk/
- BBC https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/childrens-mental-health-week/zk37bdm
- Young Minds https://www.youngminds.org.uk/
To support our recent involvement in Children's Mental Health Week, we asked our children to celebrate themselves and what makes them special and unique. We asked them to send us a picture of them doing something they enjoy or an interest/hobby they have.
The picture could capture them enjoying an activity such as a sport, baking, sewing, reading, being an artist/musician/scientist - anything that celebrates what they enjoy doing!
This is Me!
