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Mental Health Awareness Week - 9 to 15 May: Kooth

Mental Health Awareness Week is an annual event when there is an opportunity for the whole of the UK to focus on achieving good mental health.

The Mental Health Foundation started the event 21 years ago. The event has grown to become one of the biggest awareness weeks across the UK and globally.

The theme for this year's Mental Health Awareness Week is loneliness. Loneliness is something we can all experience from time to time and is different for everyone.

A YouGov poll (2019) of 13 to 19-year-olds found 69% said they felt alone “often” or “sometimes” and 59% feel like they “often” or “sometimes" have no one to talk to. Supporting young people in recognising when they are feeling lonely, understanding their thoughts and feelings, and identifying the supportive connections they have, is really important.

With this in mind, there are a range of ways in which Kooth can support this week - all for free - such as:

  1. Kooth assemblies, where we talk about mental health and present a tour of the Kooth website to show young people what support is available to them (live or pre-recorded).
  2. A range of workshops such as stress and anxiety, wellbeing, male mental health, anger awareness and anti-bullying.
  3. Training staff in understanding Kooth, so they feel confident signposting young people to the service if they have any concerns about a young person. This training can be carried out after school hours, during staff meetings or inset days and involves a live tour of the website.

Please contact Karen Dawber if you have any queries at kdawber@kooth.com, or with any dates that you would like to book in. These can be done virtually or in person.

Mental Health Awareness week resources are available for you to use should you wish:

If you require physical resources, such as Kooth posters or small cards, you can have these posted to you free of charge - all you need to do is complete the short order form and/or please feel free to use our Resource Hub. Everything on there is free for you to download and print.

Kooth is free, safe, anonymous and available for children and young people in Kent from the ages of 10 to 25 and can support a young person should they be placed on a waiting list, not meet thresholds for support or as an additional support alongside other services.

Kooth - Chat, listen, share, understand. We can all feel lonely at times. And that's okay. Mental Health Awareness Week - 9 to 15 May. Join our mental health and wellbeing community today to chat with a professional and connect with peers by using kooth.com - logo