Urban Villages - Focus Magazine {Issue 11)

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Healthy Me & Provoking Thought Recently, the Action Mental Health team have been busy building relationships and delivering its OUR Generation, ‘Healthy Me’ and ‘Provoking Provoking Thought supports young people and their key contacts with mental and emotional wellbeing programmes. They have a range of activities that are tailored to suit group

‘Healthy Me’ was successfully piloted to P1 children. A teacher at Mercy PS commented, “I thought that it was going to be like all other courses that we had done before. This programme is beautiful and so fitting for these times. I love how it approached emotions and children’s mental health.”

Thought’ programmes in the North Belfast Urban Village area, through a mix of physical (when allowed) and online sessions. Healthy Me is a lively engaging mental health programme aimed at children. It explores emotional and mental health, healthy lifestyle choices and pathways to effective support through imaginative and interactive play and song.

needs. The workshops are friendly, positive, interactive and informative. A P4 teacher commented on the ‘Healthy Me’ programme “The children’s sessions were amazing, parents got in touch to tell us their children loved it! I also got ideas and the language was so child friendly and appropriate for children to understand.”

For more information contact Action Mental Health T: 028 9182 8494 or E: ogteam@amh.org.uk

Urban Villages Initiative | Focus Magazine Issue 11