Explore all our resources designed to support schools, education staff, caregivers and young people to look after their mental health and wellbeing.
Contents:
School packs
Our school packs include everything you need to discuss mental health topics in your school.
Each pack includes lesson and assembly plans, and guides for staff, pupils, and caregivers.
Body image: How we think and feel about our bodies
Healthy relationships: With ourselves and our peers
Loneliness: Finding our connections to feel less lonely
Sleep: Finding our confidence with sleep
Kindness: Why kindness matters
Nature: Connecting with the world around us
The resources are really 'plug and play' which is fantastic... Wonderful to have resources/info packs for students, staff and parents.
Thank you for sharing and providing these resources. At a pressing time to be working in mental health for children & young people, these resources saved my team a lot of time and energy and supported the needs of our educational settings.
The Peer 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.
All the resources needed to deliver the project in your school are freely available.
PEP mental health curriculum resources
The lessons
The assemblies
School fundraising packs
Healthy relationships fundraising school pack
Wellbeing and fundraising school pack
Wear it Green Day fundraising pack
Resources for education staff
Healthy Relationships booklet
It focuses on how to support yourself as staff, and help your pupils and your colleagues build healthy relationships.
Loneliness booklet
It focuses on how to support yourself as staff, your pupils, and your colleagues with feelings of loneliness.
Loneliness guide
Sleep booklet
It focuses on how to support yourself as staff, your pupils, and your colleagues with developing good sleep health.
Kindness Matters booklet
It focuses on how to support yourself as staff, your pupils, and your colleagues with self-kindness and gratitude.
Connecting with Nature booklet
It focuses on how to support yourself as staff, your pupils, and your colleagues with finding a connection to nature.
Body Image booklet
It focuses on how to support yourself as staff, your pupils, and your colleagues with body image.
Anxiety booklet
It focuses on how to support yourself as staff, your pupils, and your colleagues with anxiety.
Rethinking Rest 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 wellbeing of others.
Resources for caregivers
Healthy Relationships booklet
Loneliness booklet
A young parent guide to loneliness
Body Image booklet
Sleep booklet
Kindness Matters booklet
Connecting with Nature booklet
Time for Us
Resources for young people
Top tips for young people: Healthy relationships with ourselves
This booklet provides helpful tips, advice, and signposting for young people on developing healthy relationships with themselves.
Top tips for young people: Healthy relationships with our peers
This booklet provides helpful tips, advice, and signposting for young people on developing healthy relationships with their peers.
Top tips for young people: Loneliness
This booklet provides helpful tips, advice, and signposting for young people on how to look after themselves and others when experiencing loneliness.
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 for young people: Exams
This booklet provides helpful tips, advice, and signposting for young people on how to take care during exams.
Top tips for young people: Sleep
This booklet provides helpful tips, advice, and signposting for young people on how to develop good sleep health.
Top tips for young people: Kindness
This booklet provides helpful tips, advice, and signposting for young people on how to express self-kindness and gratitude.
Top tips for young people: Connecting with nature
This booklet provides helpful tips, advice, and signposting for young people on how to connect with nature.
A student guide to loneliness
It explores loneliness and how it 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.
Top tips for young people: Body image
This booklet provides helpful tips, advice, and signposting for young people on healthy body image.
Fox's story: being disabled and the feeling of isolation, together with being queer and trans
Healthy Relationships
This campaign talks to young people about healthy relationships; what's important, how they recognise, build and maintain healthy relationships, and how relationships can affect our mental health and wellbeing.
#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.
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.
Getting support
Support for education staff
Education Support – Education Support provides mental health and wellbeing support to teachers and education staff in schools, colleges and universities. Call free on 08000 562 561 to speak to a qualified counsellor. They will offer you immediate, confidential emotional support.
Support for caregivers
In England and Wales, contact Family Lives.
In Scotland, contact Children 1st Parentline.
In Northern Ireland, contact Parentline NI.
Across the UK, you can contact Family Action’s Family Line – they specialise in supporting parents facing complex issue.
Young Mind’s Parent Helpline and Webchat provides advice and support for parents and caregivers who are worried about a child or young person.
Little Lullaby – a service of The Lullaby Trust, provides a space where young parents and parents-to-be can chat, tell their story and support each other through pregnancy, birth and beyond. Find out more about Little Lullaby and how you can get involved (PDF).
Support for children, young people and young adults
The Mix – a UK-based charity that provides free, confidential support for young people under 25. Young people can get support from the trained team, either by phone, webchat, or email.
Shout 85258 – a free, confidential, 24/7 text-messaging support service.
Samaritans – a UK-based charity that provides support at any time, from any phone for free. Call free on 116 123 or email [email protected] .
Young Minds is a mental health charity for children, young people and their parents, making sure all young people can get the mental health support they need. They offer advice and resources on their website.
Childline is here to help anyone under 19 in the UK with any issue they’re going through. Call ChildLine on 0800 1111 to speak to a counsellor, they’re there to listen and support you with anything you’d like to talk about. Or you can have a 1-2-1 counsellor chat online. They also offer advice and resources on their website.