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As the need for effective mental health promotion in children is more important than ever we are excited to be launching our new Skills for Life as a Whole School Approach to Wellbeing Resource.

We’re excited to announce that we are now working with Bounce Together – the creators of an online mental health and wellbeing platform designed for schools, to help them measure wellbeing.

We are proud to have been part of the mental health and wellbeing festival for schools.

The theme of this year’s Children’s Mental Health Week is Growing Together and we have created a special activity inspired by our Skills for Life programmes.

In our new blog, we explore the link between wellbeing and movement in the Early Years with MOVE Europe: a charity that enables disabled children to gain independent movement through the MOVE Programme.

We are delighted to be working with fellow charity Bounce Forward to deliver their Department for Education quality assured course for Senior Mental Health Leads in 2022.

We met virtually with members of our partner organisations to celebrate our 20th anniversary and collectively reaching two million children.

Thanks to a new partnership between Partnership for Children, Premier Academy, Nairobi and SHOFCO, a Kenyan NGO, Zippy’s Friends is now running in two schools in the urban slum areas of Mathare and Kibera, Nairobi.

We wanted to share with you the work happening in schools around the world this year to promote positive mental health for children using the Skills for Life programmes.

Research on resilience shows that protective factors can protect children from harm and help them to bounce back from adversities such as the pandemic.

We’re very excited to be launching the latest addition to our suite of Skills for Life programmes - SPARK Resilience!