Schools packs
Our school's pack include everything you need to discuss mental health topics in school, including guides for teachers, pupils and caregivers and lesson and assembly slides.
Anxiety booklet
This booklet is full of helpful tips and advice for schools, including supporting yourself, your pupils and your colleagues with anxiety when at school.
Healthy Relationships: With ourselves and our peers
This pack explores how pupils can build healthy relationships with themselves and their peers, and how having healthy relationships can support their mental health and well-being.
Loneliness: Finding our connections to feel less lonely
This pack explores what loneliness is, how it can affect our mental health, and the different ways we can connect with ourselves, others and the world around us to feel less lonely.
Body Image: How we think and feel about our bodies
This pack explores what body image is, why it is essential for well-being, what factors can affect body image, and how we can develop a good body image.
Sleep: Finding our confidence with sleep
This pack explores what sleep is and how important it is for our mental health and well-being, what good sleep is the factors that affect it, and how we can promote good sleep for ourselves.
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Kindness: Why Kindness Matters
This pack explores what kindness is and the emotions connected to it, how kindness can benefit our own and others’ mental health and well-being and the different ways we can show kindness to ourselves and others.
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Nature: Connecting with the world around us
The pack explores how connecting with nature can be good for our mental health and well-being, how we all have different levels of access to nature and the different ways we can all connect with nature in our own way.
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More resources for schools
Healthy Relationships fundraising school pack
This fundraising pack has been designed to support our schools Healthy Relationships campaign. It features events aimed to help build connections with ourselves and others, including some events created and designed by young people.
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Well-being and Fundraising schools pack
Our well-being and schools fundraising pack is designed to give young people 8 Top Tips for managing their well-being and mental health.
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Wear it Green Day fundraising pack
Wear it Green Day is our flagship school’s fundraising event for Mental Health Awareness week, but you can hold one at any time of the year.
More about Wear it Green DayPeer Education Project (PEP)
PEP is a secondary school-based educational programme that aims to give young people the skills and knowledge they need to safeguard their mental health and that of their peers.
Resources for education staff
Healthy Relationships: With ourselves and our peers
This guide for school staff explores how to support pupils in building healthy relationships with themselves and their peers, and how these relationships can affect their mental health. It also includes resources for school staff to support their mental health and well-being.
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Loneliness: Finding our connections to feel less lonely
This guide for school staff explores what loneliness is, how it can affect our mental health, and the different ways we can support pupils to connect with themselves, others and the world around them to feel less lonely.
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Loneliness: A guide for teachers and education staff
This guide, developed in partnership with Education Support, explores the concept of loneliness, what it is, the different types of loneliness, and some ways to support ourselves and our peers.
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Sleep: Finding our confidence with sleep
This guide for school staff explores what sleep is and how important it is for our mental health and well-being, what good sleep is and the factors that affect it, and the ways we can support pupils to promote good sleep for themselves.
Download the guide
Kindness: Why Kindness Matters
This guide explores what kindness is and the emotions connected to it, how kindness can benefit our own and others’ mental health and well-being and how we can support pupils to show kindness to themselves and others.
Download the guide
Nature: Connecting with the world around us
This guide for school staff explores how connecting with nature can be good for our mental health and well-being and the different ways we can all connect with nature, in the classroom and across the school.
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Body Image: How we think and feel about our bodies
This guide for school staff explores what body image is, why it is essential for well-being, what factors can affect body image, and how we can support pupils to develop a good body image.
Download the guide
Online learning and professional development courses
We offer a series of online learning courses accessible to anyone who wants to learn more about their mental health and how to support the well-being of others.
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Rethinking Rest
This resource has been designed to be used by staff within education supporting children and young people. However, the content is relevant to anyone wanting to find out more about the different types and ways to rest.
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Prioritising your mental health and well-being as school staff
This online webinar was held on 4 November 2021. It was designed to be an opportunity to reflect on how you look after your mental health and well-being, find tips on building more opportunities for rest in your daily schedules, and where to go for more support.
Resources for parents and caregivers
Healthy Relationships: With ourselves and our peers
This guide for parents and caregivers explores how to support children and young people in building healthy relationships with themselves and their peers, how these relationships can affect their mental health. It also includes resources for parents and caregivers to support their mental health and well-being.
Download the guide
Loneliness: Finding our connections to feel less lonely
This guide explores what loneliness is, how it can affect our mental health, and the different ways we can support our children and young people to connect with themselves, others and the world around them to feel less lonely.
Download the guide
A young parent guide to loneliness
The Mental Health Foundation and The Lullaby Trust have developed this top tip guide to support young parents who may feel lonely.
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Body Image: How we think and feel about our bodies
This guide explores what body image is, why it is essential for well-being, what factors can affect body image, and how we can support our children and young people to develop a good body image.
Download the guide
Sleep: Finding our confidence with sleep
This guide explores what sleep is and how important it is for our mental health and well-being, what good sleep is, the factors that affect it, and the different ways we can support our children and young people to promote good sleep for themselves.
Download the guide
Kindness: Why Kindness Matters
This guide explores what kindness is and the emotions that are connected to it, how kindness can benefit our own and others’ mental health and well-being and the different ways we can support our children and young people to show kindness to themselves and others.
Download the guide
Nature: Connecting with the world around us
This guide explores how connecting with nature can be good for our mental health and well-being, how we all have different levels of access to nature, and how we can support our children and young people to connect with nature in their own way.
Download the guide
Time for Us
A resource developed during the COVID-19 pandemic, designed for anyone with caring responsibilities for children and young people, provides some practical activities to help start conversations about our feelings and mental health.
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Resources for children, young people and young adults
Top tips: Healthy relationships with ourselves
Here are some top tips for how to have a healthy relationship with yourself. These include resources and activities to support you to connect with yourself and prioritise your needs.
Top tips: Healthy relationships with our peers
Here are some top tips for how to have a healthy relationship with your peers. These include resources and activities to support you to connect with your peers and understand your needs and theirs in relationships.
Top tips: Healthy Relationships posters
Here are some posters of our healthy relationships top tips that you can display in school.
Top Tips: Poster Series
Here are some top tips posters for how to support your mental health and well-being. These posters were written and designed by a young person involved in the Peer Education Project.
Top tips: Looking after yourselves during exams
Here are some top tips to help you look after yourselves and support your well-being during exams.
Fundraising and Well-being Pack – colleges and universities
Our well-being and fundraising pack aims to provide students with our '9 Top Tips' for managing their well-being and mental health. We have also included some fundraising ideas for them to take part in.
Loneliness: Finding our connections to feel less lonely
This guide for pupils explores what loneliness is, how it can affect our mental health, and the different ways we can connect with ourselves, others and the world around us to feel less lonely.
Nature: Connecting with the world around us
This guide for pupils explores how connecting with nature can be good for our mental health and well-being and some top tips on how we can connect with nature.
Kindness: Why Kindness Matters
This guide for pupils explores what kindness is and the feelings that are connected to it, how kindness can benefit our own and others’ mental health and well-being and some top tips on the different ways we can show kindness to ourselves and others.
Body Image: How we think and feel about our bodies
This guide for pupils explores what body image is, why it is essential for well-being, what can affect body image, and some top tips on how we can develop a good body image.
Sleep: Finding our confidence with sleep
This guide for pupils explores what sleep is and how important it is for our mental health and well-being, what good sleep is and what can affect it, and some top tips on the different ways we can have good sleep for ourselves.
Healthy Relationships
When we think about the relationships we have, we often think about those that involve other people, however, even if we may not be aware of it yet, we also have a relationship with ourselves. This relationship with ourselves includes how we speak and act towards ourselves as well as the ways in which we look after ourselves.
#BehindtheBooks
The #BehindtheBooks university campaign aims to help uni students talk about their mental health, realise when they’re struggling, and provide tips on coping and normalising uni life's ups and downs.
A student guide to loneliness
It explores loneliness and its links to mental health. It provides tips for students with ideas on how to get involved and raise awareness in communities, at school, college or university.
What’s up with everyone?
A hub of advice on how to cope with perfectionism, loneliness and isolation, independence, social media, competitiveness and how to seek help.