Children's Mental Health Week is taking place on 7-13 February 2022. This year's theme is Growing Together.

Human beings change and grow– we do it all the time and in many different ways. Physical growth is easy to see as we grow from babies to children, teenagers to adults. We grow intellectually as we gain new knowledge, skills, and understanding at school, and beyond.  

Growing Together is about growing emotionally and finding ways to help each other grow. Challenges and setbacks can help us to grow and adapt and trying new things can help us to move beyond our comfort zone into a new realm of possibility and potential. However, emotional growth is often a gradual process that happens over time, and sometimes we might feel a bit ‘stuck’.

For Children’s Mental Health Week 2022, Place2Be is encouraging children (and adults) to consider how they have grown, what they need to help them grow, and how they can help others to grow too.  Watch the video below to learn more about the theme.

As parents and carers, you play an important role in your child’s mental health. Place2Be's website contains a wealth of information and resources to support parents and carers with this. 

https://www.place2be.org.uk/our-services/parents-and-carers/