Explore all our resources designed to support schools, education staff, caregivers and young people to look after their mental health and wellbeing.
Contents:
School packs
Our school packs include everything you need to discuss mental health topics in your school.
Each pack includes lesson and assembly plans, and guides for staff, pupils, and caregivers.
Body image: How we think and feel about our bodies
This pack explores what body image is, why it is essential for wellbeing, what factors can affect body image, and how we can develop a good body image.
Body image school pack
Healthy relationships: With ourselves and our peers
This pack explores how pupils can build healthy relationships with themselves and their peers, and how having healthy relationships can support their mental health and wellbeing.
Healthy relationships school pack
Loneliness: Finding our connections to feel less lonely
This pack explores what loneliness is, how it can affect our mental health, and the different ways we can connect with ourselves, others and the world around us to feel less lonely.
Loneliness school pack
Sleep: Finding our confidence with sleep
This pack explores what sleep is and how important it is for our mental health and well-being, what good sleep is, the factors that affect it, and how we can promote good sleep for ourselves.
Sleep school pack
Kindness: Why kindness matters
This pack explores what kindness is and the emotions connected to it, how kindness can benefit our own and others’ mental health and well-being and the different ways we can show kindness to ourselves and others.
Kindness school pack
Nature: Connecting with the world around us
The pack explores how connecting with nature can be good for our mental health and well-being, how we all have different levels of access to nature and the different ways we can all connect with nature in our own way.
Nature school packThe resources are really 'plug and play' which is fantastic... Wonderful to have resources/info packs for students, staff and parents.
Thank you for sharing and providing these resources. At a pressing time to be working in mental health for children & young people, these resources saved my team a lot of time and energy and supported the needs of our educational settings.
The Peer Education Project (PEP)
PEP is a secondary school-based educational programme that aims to give young people the skills and knowledge they need to safeguard their mental health and that of their peers.
All the resources needed to deliver the project in your school are freely available.
PEP mental health curriculum resources
The lessons
Explore the 13 pre-prepared lesson plans and PowerPoint slides, supporting your pupils to increase their mental health literacy.
The assemblies
Explore the 6 pre-prepared assembly plans and PowerPoints, supporting your school to shine the spotlight on key mental health topics.
School fundraising packs
Healthy relationships fundraising school pack
This fundraising pack has been designed to support our schools' 'Healthy Relationships' campaign. It features events aimed to help build connections with ourselves and others, including some events created and designed by young people.
Download the healthy relationships fundraising pack
Wellbeing and fundraising school pack
Our wellbeing and fundraising pack is designed to give young people 8 top tips for managing their wellbeing and mental health.
See the wellbeing and fundraising pack
Wear it Green Day fundraising pack
Wear it Green Day is our flagship school fundraising event for Mental Health Awareness Week, but you can hold one at any time of the year.
More about Wear it Green Day
Resources for education staff
Healthy Relationships booklet
This booklet provides helpful tips, advice, and signposting for schools on healthy relationships with ourselves and others.
It focuses on how to support yourself as staff, and help your pupils and your colleagues build healthy relationships.
Loneliness booklet
This booklet provides helpful tips, advice, and signposting for schools on loneliness.
It focuses on how to support yourself as staff, your pupils, and your colleagues with feelings of loneliness.
Loneliness guide
This guide, developed in partnership with Education Support, explores the concept of loneliness, what it is, the different types of loneliness, and some ways to support ourselves and our peers.
Find out more
Sleep booklet
This booklet provides helpful tips, advice, and signposting for schools on sleep.
It focuses on how to support yourself as staff, your pupils, and your colleagues with developing good sleep health.
Kindness Matters booklet
This booklet provides helpful tips, advice, and signposting for schools on kindness.
It focuses on how to support yourself as staff, your pupils, and your colleagues with self-kindness and gratitude.
Connecting with Nature booklet
This booklet provides helpful tips, advice, and signposting for schools on connecting with nature.
It focuses on how to support yourself as staff, your pupils, and your colleagues with finding a connection to nature.
Body Image booklet
This booklet provides helpful tips, advice, and signposting for schools on body image.
It focuses on how to support yourself as staff, your pupils, and your colleagues with body image.
Anxiety booklet
This booklet provides helpful tips, advice, and signposting for schools on anxiety.
It focuses on how to support yourself as staff, your pupils, and your colleagues with anxiety.
Rethinking Rest guide
This resource has been designed to be used by staff within education supporting children and young people. However, the content is relevant to anyone wanting to find out more about the different types and ways to rest.
Download the guide
Online learning and professional development courses
We offer a series of online learning courses accessible to anyone who wants to learn more about their mental health and how to support the wellbeing of others.
Resources for caregivers
Healthy Relationships booklet
This booklet provides helpful tips, advice, and signposting for caregivers on how to support children and young people with developing healthy relationships.
Download the booklet
Loneliness booklet
This booklet provides helpful tips, advice, and signposting for caregivers on how to support children and young people with feelings of loneliness.
Download the booklet
A young parent guide to loneliness
The Mental Health Foundation and The Lullaby Trust have developed this top tip guide to support young parents who may feel lonely.
Find out more
Body Image booklet
This booklet provides helpful tips, advice, and signposting for caregivers on how to support children and young people with body image.
Download the booklet
Sleep booklet
This booklet provides helpful tips, advice, and signposting for caregivers on how to support children and young people with developing good sleep health.
Download the booklet
Kindness Matters booklet
This booklet provides helpful tips, advice, and signposting for caregivers on how to support children and young people with expressing self-kindness and gratitude.
Download the guide
Connecting with Nature booklet
This booklet provides helpful tips, advice, and signposting for caregivers on how to support children and young people with connecting with nature.
Download the booklet
Time for Us
A resource developed during the COVID-19 pandemic, designed for anyone with caring responsibilities for children and young people, provides some practical activities to help start conversations about our feelings and mental health.
Download the guide
Resources for young people
Top tips for young people: Healthy relationships with ourselves
This booklet provides helpful tips, advice, and signposting for young people on developing healthy relationships with themselves.
Top tips for young people: Healthy relationships with our peers
This booklet provides helpful tips, advice, and signposting for young people on developing healthy relationships with their peers.
Top tips for young people: Loneliness
This booklet provides helpful tips, advice, and signposting for young people on how to look after themselves and others when experiencing loneliness.
Top tips: Poster series
Here are some top tips posters for how to support your mental health and well-being. These posters were written and designed by a young person involved in the Peer Education Project.
Top tips for young people: Exams
This booklet provides helpful tips, advice, and signposting for young people on how to take care during exams.
Top tips for young people: Sleep
This booklet provides helpful tips, advice, and signposting for young people on how to develop good sleep health.
Top tips for young people: Kindness
This booklet provides helpful tips, advice, and signposting for young people on how to express self-kindness and gratitude.
Top tips for young people: Connecting with nature
This booklet provides helpful tips, advice, and signposting for young people on how to connect with nature.
A student guide to loneliness
It explores loneliness and how it links to mental health. It provides tips for students with ideas on how to get involved and raise awareness in communities, at school, college or university.
Top tips for young people: Body image
This booklet provides helpful tips, advice, and signposting for young people on healthy body image.
Fox's story: being disabled and the feeling of isolation, together with being queer and trans
Healthy Relationships
This campaign talks to young people about healthy relationships; what's important, how they recognise, build and maintain healthy relationships, and how relationships can affect our mental health and wellbeing.
#BehindtheBooks
The #BehindtheBooks university campaign aims to help uni students talk about their mental health, realise when they’re struggling, and provide tips on coping and normalising uni life's ups and downs.
What’s up with everyone?
A hub of advice on how to cope with perfectionism, loneliness and isolation, independence, social media, competitiveness and how to seek help.