56 THE WEBSITE PRIORITISING CHILDREN’S MENTAL HEALTH A legacy of the Heads Together campaign, ‘Mentally Healthy Schools’ offers free guidance and resources for parents, teachers, and professionals.
People can have a strong reaction to the term, ‘mental health’,” explains counselling psychologist Rina Bajaj. “Often people think about extremes, but just like our physical health, we all have mental health - and of course it’s on a spectrum. “With the Mentally Healthy Schools website, the focus is on early intervention, and thinking about health holistically, in order to help people better understand and promote children and young people’s mental health and wellbeing.”
Mentally Healthy Schools launched in 2018. It was developed in partnership between the Anna Freud Centre, Young Minds, Place2Be, and The Royal Foundation as a legacy project of the Heads Together campaign. The free website offers a reliable source of quality-assured information, advice, and practical resources for parents, carers, teachers, and professionals - all created by clinicians and education professionals. The Anna Freud Centre - a mental health charity for children, young people, and their families - run the site.
