Another year of Mental Health Champions is complete! We recently held another Mental Health Champions celebration event to mark the end of a successful year.
Our e-wellbeing Mental Health Champions (delivered in partnership with Brighton & Hove Public Health Schools) has had another brilliant year of empowering youth voice in schools and colleges across the city. For the first time, this year’s project included two primary schools, along with seven secondary schools and one college. Across the academic year, Champions have been working to create a youth-led action to improve wellbeing in their educational setting, such as creating a new wellbeing space, adapting policies to make students feel safer in school, and designing mental health support resources for students and staff.
Champions and staff were invited to the 2024 Celebration Event in Hove, where each school and college had their hard work showcased through a Video Presentation. Around 85 Champions and 15 school staff took part in fun group activities, including designing a new School of Belonging and building their own Play-Doh wellbeing space, and each received a certificate and e-wellbeing goodie bag for their amazing work during the project.
During the event, school leads and Public Health Schools staff were invited to a Staff Networking session, where they could meet with the other professionals and share their feedback about the project. Brackenbury Primary’s school lead said, “a great project to be involved in and thanks for today – the children have loved it”, while Patcham High’s school lead said, “I would really like to take the lead with Mental Health Champions now and say YES to signing up for next year. It has been a ride this year!”
We would also like to give a special shout-out to our Youth Ambassadors who did an amazing job on the day of taking photos, videos and supporting all the activities at the event.
e-wellbeing will be publishing the 2024 Project Summary Report shortly, which will include further information about the project, feedback from students and staff, and recommendations for next year’s project. To find out more about the project, click here.
And you can watch our highlights video from the event here:
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