Know yourself - Grow yourself - Children's Mental Health Week 3-9 February, 2025

31^st January 2025

Children's Mental Health Week 2025 will take place from 3-9 February 2025. This annual event shines a spotlight on the importance of children and young people's mental health. This year the focus will be the theme ‘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.

In the past children's personal development was thought to just happen, however we now know differently. In the UK, in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, help with well-being for children and young people has never been more needed, with one in four teenagers aged 17-19 identified as having a mental health difficulty, an increase from one in six in 2021.

Shockingly, in 2024 the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) ranked the UK’s 15-year-olds with the lowest average life satisfaction in Europe. Despite these depressing statistics, it’s important to remember that help is available, so personal growth and empowerment is a possibility for everyone. Sometimes we just need a little bit of support along the way!

This is where DRCS’s recently relaunched service for children and young people comes in, providing 1;1 therapy for children, young people or parents as well as services for schools, school staff and other professionals working with children. Browse our website at https://drcs.org.uk/ for information about our talking therapy services, it is just a click away.

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