About Children’s Mental Health Week
What is Children's Mental Health Week?
Place2Be's Children's Mental Health Week is a mental health awareness week that empowers, equips and gives a voice to all children and young people in the UK. Place2Be launched the week in 2015 to encourage more people than ever to help us reach our goal that no child or young person has to face a mental health problem alone.
The week’s focus is Know Yourself, Grow Yourself, with the aim to equip and empower children and young people across the UK to embrace self-awareness and explore what it means to them.
This year we're partnering with Here4You, supported by The Walt Disney Company and the Inside Out 2 characters to explore our theme Know Yourself, Grow Yourself..
We're partnering with Here4You, supported by The Walt Disney Company!
Place2Be’s Children’s Mental Health Week has joined forces with Here4You to explore the importance of self-awareness and expressing emotions.
Here4You is supported by The Walt Disney Company, and through the characters of Pixar’s Inside Out and Inside Out 2, the resources encourage children and young people across the UK to discover how getting to know who they are can help them build resilience, grow and develop.
On our website and in some of our resources and activities, you'll find Joy and the characters from Inside Out 2 help explore our theme Know Yourself, Grow Yourself.
Take a look at our free resources
From assembly slides and top tips, to school resources - our fun and exciting activities will help you take part in the week!
Take a look at our resourcesThe theme for Children's Mental Health Week 2025 is 'Know Yourself, Grow Yourself'
During Children’s Mental Health Week 2025 we will be encouraging children, young people and adults to embrace and build self-awareness - allowing them to grow and develop.
Know Yourself, Grow Yourself will focus on how understanding who we are and what makes us tick can help us build resilience, grow and develop.
The more we understand about ourselves, the more we're prepared to tackle life's ups and downs. Our in-school counsellors help children and young people in the UK cope with some of the most challenging times in their lives. By helping them get to understand and accept themselves, they start to build self-awareness. This allows them to develop the skills they need to cope with what life throws at them.
During Children’s Mental Health Week we want to celebrate children and young people embracing self-awareness and forming strong connections with others.
About Place2Be
Place2Be is a children’s mental health charity that provides counselling, mental health support and training in UK schools. We believe that children should not have to face mental health problems alone.
Our variety of different mental health and counselling services are available for schools across the UK. We also offer mental health training for school staff, support for parents and families, as well as counselling qualifications for anyone wanting to become a counsellor.
Place2Be equips people with the skills and experience they need to support children and young people.
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