Thursday 3 February – Time to Talk Day

Thursday 3 February – Time to Talk Day

Six of our young people have recently completed training to become a Mental Health Peer Educator.  For Mental Health Awareness Month (February) they have organised a number of activities to raise awareness of the importance of talking, how to support your mental health and will provide specific information on anxiety, depression, self harm and eating disorders.

Our newly qualified MH peer educators are :

Isabella, Miles, Esme, Ruth and Emma in S3 and Eilidh in S6, and you can identify them by the badge they wear.

These are some of their thoughts on what they undertook in their training and how they can support you in school.

Time to Talk Day is the nation’s biggest mental health conversation and it is Taking place on Thursday 3 February 2022, it’s the day that friends, families, communities, and workplaces come together to talk, listen and change lives.

In school today you will have the opportunity to take part in a variety of activities which encourage us to start a conversation around mental health and identify how we can support ourselves and others.

 

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