Mental Health and Wellbeing Support

We know that the teenage years can be difficult for our young people at the best of times, but since the Covid Pandemic life has become even harder for many of our young people.

• 20% of adolescents may experience a mental health problem in any given year. This has increased since the Covid pandemic with the young minds survey in 2020 finding that 69% of young people described their mental health as poor.
• 50% of mental health problems are established by age 14 and 75% by age 24.2.
• 10% of children and young people (aged 5-16 years) have a clinically diagnosable mental problem3, yet 70% of children and adolescents who experience mental health problems have not had appropriate interventions at a sufficiently early age.
• Over a quarter of young people said that mental health support was LESS now than before the Covid pandemic began.
• Poor mental health, left untreated, can lead to a lifetime of difficulties.

(Source mentalhealth.org.uk and youngminds.org.uk)

Within our program, we offer support to any of our young people who may be struggling. While we are not trained councillors; we listen and can direct our young people to our many partner organisations who are able to provide the appropriate level of support. Most importantly however we provide a safe place where our young people can explore who they are and what’s important to them and access support services if needed.