Lifelong Mental Health Education – Tesco Stronger Starts
February 7, 2025
You can now support Isle Listen when you do your weekly shop! Vote for Isle Listen in store until 31st March 2025.
How it works:
- 1. Pick up a blue token when you check out
- 2. Vote for MCH Phycological Services (Isle Listen)
Read our mission summary here:
“Appropriate early education and support is now widely recognised as being the single most protective factor against developing lifelong mental health conditions. Starting in Primary Schools we want to put those key building blocks in place, teaching pupils the importance of understanding feelings and emotions. For Secondary School students, education needs to be more focussed around specific, age relevant issues, making young people more resilient and able to deal with the transitions they are going through, as well as understanding issues they will face throughout their lives. In the wider community, our mental health training gives individuals skills they can use to benefit their own mental health, as well as being able to better understand and support their colleagues, families and communities.
The Children’s Society found that ‘1 in 6 children aged 5-16 are likely to have a mental health problem’. As with most countries, the focus of Statutory services is not on early intervention and prevention, but instead budgets are focused on fire fighting the current problem, whilst further generations of young people don’t receive appropriate support and then the vicious cycle begins again. These issues continue to have an impact throughout people’s lives. Deloitte found poor mental health costs UK employers up to £56 billion a year with 1 in 6 of employees suffering from a mental health condition, while statistics from the Health and Safety Executive show approximately 51% of long term sick leave is due to stress, depression on anxiety.
We want access to mental health education to change the way that everyone on the Isle of Man approaches and talks about mental health, helping to avoid the unnecessary escalation of mental health problems and alleviating pressure on statutory services. The earlier we can inform and empower, the greater the long term impact.”
Don’t forget, you can also support us when you shop at Co-op, by selecting us as your member cause.
Thank you for your ongoing support, we can’t do it without you!
