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Children's Mental Health Week

Children's Mental Health Week

Children's Mental Health Week 2025

Children's Mental Health Week 2025 will take place from 3-9 February 2025.

The theme for 2025 is focus is Know Yourself, Grow Yourself, with the aim to equip and empower children and young people across the UK to embrace self-awareness and explore what it means to them. We want children and young people to discover how getting to know who they are can help them build resilience, grow and develop.

We're partnering with The Walt Disney Company!

Place2Be’s Children’s Mental Health Week has joined forces with Here4You to explore the importance of self-awareness and expressing emotions.

Here4You is supported by The Walt Disney Company, and through the characters of Pixar’s Inside Out 2, the resources encourage children and young people across the UK to discover how getting to know who they are can help them build resilience, grow and develop.

On our website and in some of our resources and activities, you'll find Joy and the characters from Inside Out 2 help explore our theme Know Yourself, Grow Yourself.

Find out more and get our free resources and activities on our Children's Mental Health Week website


 

About Children's Mental Health Week

Place2Be launched the first-ever Children's Mental Health Week in 2015 to empower, equip and give a voice to every child in the UK. It has since become a well recognised event, with hundreds of schools and colleges participating across the UK (and beyond!) as well as hundreds of children, parents and carers.

Every year, Place2Be’s expert team develops free resources to help people participate in the week devoted to children's mental health. Our highly adaptable Children's Mental Health Week resources include things like:

  • assembly guides
  • group activities
  • show and tell activities
  • top tips
  • fundraising packs 
  • posters.

Visit Place2Be's Children's Mental Health Week site


Previous Children's Mental Health Weeks

Take a look back at our Children's Mental Health Week themes and resources from previous years.

2024

Our theme for Children's Mental Health Week 2024 was My Voice Matters. During the week, which ran from 5-11 February 2024, we encouraged children and young people to express themselves and feel empowered to work together to create a positive change for their wellbeing.

Look back at 2024

Take part in the week

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Schools and youth groups

Assembly guides, activities and more to help you take part in the week.

Resources for schools and youth groups
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Families, parents and carers

Tips, resources and activities to help your family take part in the week.

Resources for families, parents and carers
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Get involved and fundraise

Help us reach our mission our goal that no child or young person has to face a mental health problem alone.

Get involved in the week
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Get in touch about Children's Mental Health Week

If you have any questions about Children's Mental Health Week, please call us on 0207 923 5506  or email events@place2be.org.uk


News & blogs

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Place2Be releases for Children’s Mental Health Week 2025

Place2Be’s Children’s Mental Health Week 2025 will encourage children and young people to embrace and build self-awareness.

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A group of four young children dressed up and smiling at the camera for 2024 Children's Mental Health Week Express Yourself day.

Children’s Mental Health Week 2024 raises over £68,000 for Place2Be

Schools, organisations, and individuals took part in Children's Mental Health Week, helping raise £68,000 for Place2Be.

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A group of 5 politics students from Ark King Soloman Academy, standing outside Downing Street with their teacher and CEO of Place2Be, Catherin Roche

Young people urge the Prime Minister to commit to long-term funding for in-school mental health services

Place2Be joined students from our partner school, Ark King Solomon Academy, calling for mental health support in schools.

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