Children’s Mental Health Awareness week – 7-13 February 2022
This year's theme is Growing Together. Children's Mental Health Week is run by children's mental health charity to focus on the importance of looking after our emotional wellbeing from an early age.
Children’s Mental Health Week is an opportunity to shine a spotlight on the importance of children and young people’s mental health. By getting involved, you’ll not only be raising important awareness, but also vital funds to help more children and young people get the emotional support they need. As our lives continue to adjust following the impact of coronavirus, we know that children and young people need our emotional support now more than ever. In fact, research shows that up to 1.5 million children and young people across the UK need mental health support as a direct consequence of the pandemic.
Human beings change and grow – we do it all the time and in many different ways. Physical growth is easy to see as we grow from babies to children, teenagers to adults. We grow intellectually as we gain new knowledge, skills, and understanding at school, and beyond. It is about growing emotionally and finding ways to help each other grow. For Children’s Mental Health Week 2022, Place2Be is encouraging children (and adults) to consider how they have grown, what they need to help them grow, and how they can help others to grow too.
We will be encouraging children (and adults) to consider how they have grown, and how they can help others to grow, we will be doing this in assemblies throughout the week of 31 January.
Snowdrops event
Our partners in North Kesteven District Council have asked us to share with you an event on Sunday 6 February 2022. This is in partnership with the Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust. The Snowdrop Event aims to bring families together to remember those children that are no longer with us.
This year’s event is due to take place between midday and 3pm on Sunday 6 February at Whisby Nature Park. Snowdrop bulbs will be kindly provided by Pennells Garden Centre in North Hykeham and will be available on the day for a small donation. Volunteers will also be on hand to help with the planting.
All proceeds will be donated to Child Bereavement UK, which supports families and educates professionals when a baby or child of any age dies or is dying, or when a child is facing bereavement. Information on the charity is available via the link https://childbereavementuk.org/about-us/
