Useful Mental Health Awareness Dates for 2026

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Useful Mental Health Awareness Dates for 2025

Prioritizing mental health is essential, and these dates offer opportunities to reflect, learn, and take action. Let’s make 2025 a year of awareness and change! 🗓️ Samaritans Brew Mondayđź“… 20 January 2025 Samaritans is reminding everyone to reach out for a cuppa and a catch-up with the people you care about. There’s always time for a […]
Safer Internet Day: Strategies for parents and schools to support children and young people’s wellbeing online

Going online is now an integral part of daily life for many people. As of 2023, there were 5.3 billion internet users worldwide. By 2028 it is predicted that 98% of the UK population will have access. To mark Safer Internet Day, we will be exploring in this blog how the online world mixes with […]
A Pastoral Worker’s Perspective on School Mental Health

Download this resource here (PDF) Minds Ahead have worked with partners to research, design and deliver innovative programmes that are the first of their kind: LEADERSHIP OF SCHOOL MENTAL HEALTH MASTERS SCHOOL MENTAL HEALTH SPECIALIST PGDIP OR MA MENTAL HEALTH PEER MENTOR PROGRAMME (LEVEL 2) Â Â Â Â Share this on social media: Facebook Twitter […]
A Senior Leader’s Perspective on School Mental Health

Download this resource here (PDF) Minds Ahead have worked with partners to research, design and deliver innovative programmes that are the first of their kind: LEADERSHIP OF SCHOOL MENTAL HEALTH MASTERS SCHOOL MENTAL HEALTH SPECIALIST PGDIP OR MA MENTAL HEALTH PEER MENTOR PROGRAMME (LEVEL 2) Â Â Â Â Share this on social media: Facebook Twitter […]
Is supporting mental health really a teacher’s job?

Teachers are under so much pressure already, is it appropriate to ask them to focus on mental health as well? Shouldn’t we be freeing up teachers to focus on academic teaching rather than spreading their attention ever thinner? Fears about teacher capacity are well-founded. Many teachers are overloaded. But to ask whether teachers have a […]
Five Myths about School Mental Health
The Five Myths about School Mental Health – the link to download this poster is below. Download Poster here (PDF) Minds Ahead have worked with partners to research, design and deliver innovative programmes that are the first of their kind: SCHOOL MENTAL HEALTH SPECIALIST PGDIP OR MA MENTAL HEALTH PEER MENTOR PROGRAMME (LEVEL 2) LEADERSHIP […]
School Mental Health in 20 Stats (Infographic)
Here is an infographic that tells the story of school mental health through stats and the link to download it as a PDF is below: Download Infographic here (PDF) Mental health qualifications to strengthen mental health in your school At Minds Ahead, we work exclusively with schools and educational settings supporting staff to improve their […]