Supporting Children’s Mental Health Week
Children's Mental Health Week is a mental health awareness week that empowers, equips and gives a voice to all children and young people in the UK.
Now in its 10th year, the theme of 2024 is ‘My Voice Matters’. This is a core belief here at imabi, underpinning our entire ecosystem.
In this blog, we’re sharing how our Inspire platform supports children and young people with their wellbeing in schools across the UK.
What is Children’s Mental Health Week?
This year, Children’s Mental Health Week takes place between 5th and 11th February. The awareness week was initially launched in 2015 by Place2Be, a children and young people’s mental health charity with nearly three decades of experience working within UK schools.
Each year since, hundreds of schools, children, parents and carers have taken part. Children’s Mental Health Week plays a part in a bigger goal: that no child or young person has to face a mental health problem alone.
What is imabi Inspire?
imabi Inspire is an all-in-one platform for creating healthier and happier educational environments, supporting both students and educators alike.
The platform already has more than 20,000 users and has been instrumental in saving the lives of two children to date.
Empowering students with the latest guidance, as well as the ability to feedback and highlight any concerns, imabi Inspire helps staff and safeguarding teams foster a deeper understanding of the wider culture within their educational communities.
How does Inspire support student wellbeing in schools?
We are all aware of how important it is to ensure students feel safe and able to report their concerns, with access to support wherever and whenever they need it. This is what imabi Inspire provides.
Making this process easier can also be the difference between students getting help and not, especially when considering that traditional reporting methods (such as emails or suggestion boxes) are becoming increasingly obsolete.
Beyond its utility as a reporting tool, the platform supports hosting guides on a range of mental health topics. These play an important role in helping children and young people to understand when the time has come to ask for help.
For more information about safeguarding in schools, and how our imabi Inspire platform can help, please contact a member of our team.
Alternatively, why not read our previous blog to discover how Barking Abbey School is using imabi Inspire?
