Children’s Mental Health Week

This week we are celebrating Children’s Mental Health Week. This week we are encouraging young people across Wirral and Merseyside consider the theme of this years celebration, Grow Together.

Growing Together is about growing emotionally and finding ways to help each other grow. Challenges and setbacks can help us to grow and adapt and trying new things can help us to move beyond our comfort zone into a new realm of possibility and potential. However, emotional growth is often a gradual process that happens over time, and sometimes we might feel a bit ‘stuck’.

For Children's Mental Health Week 2022, we will be encouraging children (and adults) to consider how they have grown and how they can help others to grow. 

Things to consider

Switch Off

• Turn your phone off at night

• Set your phone aside when studying

• Make an effort to connect with people face to face

Learn Something New

• Have a go at a new language

• Make time for you interest or hobbies

• Try learning a new skill, YouTube is an amazing resource for learning new skills

• Set some time aside to do something you want to, that will help you improve your skill

Practice Empathy

• Write some notes of gratitude

• Start a diary

• Do something kind for someone else

Love More

• Shar thoughts of appreciation and love

• Make an effort to contact those you don’t see often

• Be with people that make you feel safe and good

• Be forgiving to others, let things go

Give Self Care

• Ask for help when you need it

• Start a journal

• Share your feelings with trusted people

• Prioritise getting enough sleep