We love supporting the Happy Days Project as part of Commitment to support everyone as part of our The National Lottery Community Fund Northern Ireland
Our games based approach to mental health was originally built on working with adolescents, and we had recommendations to branch out and expand to new audiences, as mental health issues do not discriminate.
We love the engagement, the meaningful conversations about mental health, which are so beneficial in helping us understand the challenges people with different abilities face and to discuss solutions to help them overcome them.
Great to be invited to Qub Dance phenomenal night in Mandela Hall.
What a Show and fundraising for TAMHI #mentalhealthawareness
Hope you liked the custom keyrings
Huge thanks to all involved
Talk in Herbert Smith Freehills today to Belfast and online to the London Office was well received.
Great to have opportunities to showcase our work. #mentalhealthawareness
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Outstanding Mental Wealth Games session in @St John’s Bosco Newry
Feedback
“They loved it ,, we had a wee cuppa first and spoke about the Take 5 Steps and they gave some examples and we had a very relaxed discussion on how we can promote the take 5 messages, done a wee warm up , then done holding me back but they had to overturn the cones and shout out the Take 5 step underneath then on the way back they had to shout out an example of a take 5 step ,, then we done Target a Take 5 ,, each cone with a ball on it had a take 5 step and they had to knock all the balls off”
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Games session in Kilcoo County Down for Kilcoo GAC , as we delivered a session for coaches.
Feedback
” All games had purpose and meaning behind and they would find these easy and fun to deliver to kids.
Your own experience with mental health and struggles in your community gave them good insight.
They really enjoyed participating and totally different expectations to what they thought they would be attending today.
Most coaches kids themselves and are learning about the struggles and to have the tools and equipment now to deliver simple effective fun ways to get them to talk will be a great start for the club.”
Great to be invited to be a guest speaker to over 100 members from European universities, then we were able to showcase one of our games in action.
Thank you Our Generation for asking Mickey to be a on the panel
We’re delighted to have held our official launch yesterday at New Forge, Belfast.
Thanks so much to everyone who came along and to all of our speakers: Department of Education NI Minister Paul Givan MLA, Paul Beattie from the Special EU Programmes Body – SEUPB,
Dr. Claire Campbell from Ulster University, David Babington, of Action Mental Health, and all of our panel members Adam, Stephen, Micky and Sinead for sharing with us.
Special thanks to Cool FM‘s Curtis McCosh for hosting the event and to the very talented Cori Strain for treating us to a performance of ‘Unwritten’ which was a fitting closer!
“Today is where your book begins….”
#GrowingUpBetterTogether#PEACEPLUS
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This is anti bullying week.
Here at Barn Youth Academy we want all our players to feel supported. Bullying won’t be tolerated.
Our friends at Tamhi Tackling Awareness of Mental Health Issues have created this very useful information for us to share. Please discuss this with your children so they can speak out if it’s happening to them.
There are great contacts on this post and remember you can talk to coaches, our mental health champion, our wellbeing committee or a Barn Youth committee member.