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Resources for Parents
Mental Health Awareness Week 2025
At St. Anselm’s Catholic Primary School, we are proud to recognise Mental Health Awareness Week 2025, which this year focuses on the theme of “Community”. A strong community provides connection, support and a sense of belonging—important foundations for good mental health and wellbeing.
The Mental Health Foundation has published helpful guidance on the power of community and its role in supporting emotional wellbeing. You can explore more about this year’s theme and how community helps improve mental health here:
Resilience Webinars for Parents and Carers
The short videos accessible via the below link are a must watch for any parent or carer in Kent to learn about how to support their child to be resilient and how to be a resilient parent themselves. Each video covers a topic on how to build resilience. Click the links to view a specific video, or scroll down to view them all.
Kooth Online Parent Session
Supporting Your Young Person’s Mental Health
We’re pleased to invite parents and carers to a free online support session delivered by Kooth, a trusted digital mental health platform for young people. The session will offer practical advice on how to support your child’s mental health and wellbeing.
Date and time will be confirmed upon registration.
Online session – free to attend
To sign up, please fill in the form here:
Parent Session Sign-Up Form
Children's Healthier Eating Toolkit
The Office for Health Improvement and Disparities (OHID)'s new childhood nutrition campaign has launched. The campaign focuses on using the NHS Better Health Food Scanner app to help families make healthier food swaps.
This toolkit contains ten different activities to help you support families to make positive changes to their diet, with a particular focus on making healthier swaps. Activities are easy to run with children aged 4-11, with some activities suitable for children as young as 2, and require minimal preparation and no expert knowledge.
Make sure you also download and watch the Food Scanner App demo animation to find out more, as well as downloading the Food Scanner app itself so you can see how it works and test out the new swaps and augmented reality (AR) features. You can do so for both iPhone and Android.
Directory of Services and Trusted Resources for Families
Place 2 Be
Parents and carers play an important role in their child’s mental health. Place2Be's expert team have developed and recommended resources to help parents support their child's wellbeing.
YoungMinds is the UK’s leading charity committed to improving the emotional wellbeing and mental health of children and young people. Just as people’s bodies can become unwell, people’s minds can become unwell too. Mental health problems are more common than you might think – three children in every classroom have a mental health problem. Young Minds offer information to young people and children about mental health and emotional wellbeing. If you need to talk, they can let you know about organisations that listen, plus they offer online support and info.
Childline is the UK’s free helpline for children and young people. It provides a confidential telephone counselling service for any child or young person with a problem. You can visit the Childline Explore section for advice and information on a range of topics. Also, you can get support on the online message boards.
Freephone 0800 1111 (24 hours and the call won’t show on your phone bill)
Samaritans volunteers listen in confidence to anyone in any type of emotional distress, without judging or telling people what to do.
Call 0116 123 (24 hours, 7 days a week)
Online community information, help and support for anyone affected by eating disorders.
Call 0845 634 7650 (Monday to Friday evenings, from 4.30pm to 8.30pm, and Saturdays, 1.00pm – 4.30pm)
Kidscape are the first charity in the UK established specifically to prevent bullying and abuse. The website offers advice and practical skills on how to deal with bullying.