“Healthy Me” is a vibrant and engaging mental health promotion programme aimed at children which explores emotional/mental health, healthy lifestyle choices and pathways to effective support through imaginative and interactive play and song.
Healthy Me positively promotes mental health and social and emotional well-being in children and has a strong focus on prevention and self-help.
Healthy Me aims to:
- Promote social and emotional well-being through problem-solving, coping skills, conflict management and managing feelings,
- Improve the emotional and social well-being and resilience of children.
- Encourage help-seeking behaviour in children and help them identify sources of support
- Improve children’s emotional literacy,
- Challenge stigma and discrimination in relation to mental health and social and emotional difficulties
- Promote the equality of mental health with physical health
- Encourage joined up, multi-agency working in relation to the support of children with mental health needs,
- Improve knowledge of sources of advice and support for children regarding mental health.
- Enable early identification of children experiencing mental distress.
- Support the transition from primary to secondary school.
- To encourage adults to think about their own mental health needs.
Healthy Me is refreshing and fun.
| Target age group |
8-11 year olds |
| Training necessary? |
To be delivered by AMH MensSana |
| Session time |
3hrs, minimum |
| Teaching notes available? |
Yes |
| Information on sources of support? |
Yes |
| Interactive? |
Yes |
| Supplementary materials available? |
Yes |
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Action Mental Health
