Guide Digital: Mental Health Literacy for All training programme launches

Action for Children’s innovative Guide scheme to build mental health literacy and resilience in secondary pupils is now available in digital form for all professionals, volunteers and community groups supporting young people across Wales.

The programme was developed in Canada and provides a complete set of online resources proven to increase the understanding of mental health and mental disorders, decrease the stigma of mental illness and increase the ability to seek help.

Action for Children brought the evidence-based initiative to high schools all over Wales in 2018 and have been funded by Welsh Government to broaden the scheme out on a digital platform free until March 2021.

Chris Dunne oversaw the establishment of the Guide in Wales for Action for Children and said: ‘We have had excellent feedback since bringing the Guide to our Welsh schools and it has now been adopted by schools in every corner of Wales. We’re delighted Welsh Government has funded Guide Digital until March next year, giving access to this critical tool in improving mental health literacy for more of our young people.

‘We have also moved quickly to include additional modules focussing on the many mental health challenges presented by our experience, response and recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic. This programme is proven to increase mental health literacy, challenge stigma and support our young people to be better informed when confronting these issues. At a time when our mental health is being challenged like never before, this is a great opportunity to access this excellent course for free and give the young people and ourselves the tools we all need to build knowledge and resilience.’

For more information and booking enquiries, please email: GuideDigital@actionforchildren.org.uk