Children’s Mental Health Week Resource - Connection, disconnection and digital wellbeing

Children’s Mental Health Week - 6-12 February 2023
Children’s Mental Health Week presents our membership community with the opportunity to have a meaningful conversation about mental health and to discuss where children and young people can access support promptly.

This year’s theme is ‘Let’s Connect.’ It is about making meaningful connections. People thrive in communities, and this connection is vital for our wellbeing. When we have healthy connections – to family, friends, and others – this can support our mental health and our sense of wellbeing.

For Children’s Mental Health Week 2023, we’re supporting Place2Be by encouraging our membership community to connect with others in healthy, rewarding and meaningful ways. 

In celebration of Children’s Mental Health Week, we are releasing some great, free resources, which will help you participate this week. Take a look:

Connection, Disconnection and Digital Wellbeing
Lisa Blackett, a wellbeing and leadership coach discusses our ever-increasing world of digital connection and why it is so crucial for educators to be able to ‘switch off.’ She investigates the damaging impact of being constantly connected, both for the individual and the organisation. 

We also have two resources which can be found below.

Therapeutic Tools to Support Wellbeing in Schools
This article from Dr Tina Rae featured in our bi-monthly members’ magazine, nasen Connect. Join Dr Rae (a child psychologist specialising in children’s mental health) as she contemplates the impact of the pandemic on mental health and how schools can use therapeutic tools to support pupils’ mental health and wellbeing.

Breaking Taboos by Providing Inclusive Sex Education for All
Johanna Aiyathurai (CEO of Learn and Thrive) looks at the impact of relationships and sex education (RSE) on children and young people with SEND, and how it needs to be prioritised as a foundation block for greater independence and healthy relationships.

This resource was last reviewed in February 2023.