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Here you will find captivating case studies, disruptive discussions, and thought-provoking blogs that will equip you with a deeper insight into our charity and what we’re about.

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Being young has never been more difficult

Being young has never been more difficult

How do we turn things around? How can we help our young people from feeling hopeless to feeling hopeful? When our youth understand that it is human and normal to experience the full spectrum of emotions AND secondly that their wellbeing (their capacity to feel confident, motivated, clear-headed, calm, grateful and optimistic) is innate/ built-in.

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Mental health support for children ‘lacks ambition’, BBC article – iheart’s response

Mental health support for children ‘lacks ambition’, BBC article – iheart’s response

Mental health support for children ‘lacks ambition’ a recent article from the BBC which covered the government plans for mental health support teams to be in a third of schools in England by 2022-23, saying that this plan lacks ambition and needs to be stepped up.

“Children’s wellbeing expert Lord Layard urged the Commons education committee to push for a national rollout before the end of this Parliament.”

Upon reading this article and Lord Layard’s comments, I wrote this response.

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‘Children’s mental health: Huge rise in severe cases, BBC analysis reveals’ – iheart’s response

‘Children’s mental health: Huge rise in severe cases, BBC analysis reveals’ – iheart’s response

The BBC recently published an article ‘Children’s mental health: Huge rise in severe cases, BBC analysis reveals’. Of course this is not news to iheart, and so we have written a response to this article. So … what do we do about it? Keep banging the drum? Keep telling everyone how big the problem is? Keep allowing fires to break out all over the pace? Isn’t that just more of the same?

For us, at iheart, the innovative mental health education charity, this just isn’t good enough. Our children are indeed suffering. And while we may be more ‘aware’ of this suffering than ever before, the problem continues to get worse. Not better.

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Top 5 benefits of being an iheart facilitator

Top 5 benefits of being an iheart facilitator

Meet Thomas Brosnan, a mental health professional with over twenty years experience as a Teacher, Addiction Specialist and Psychotherapist and, more recently, an iheart facilitator. We recently sat down with Thomas as he told us his top five benefits of being an iheart facilitator. “When I think of the benefits of becoming an iheart facilitator, the first thing that comes to mind is how the programme has significantly enhanced my life by highlighting the truth that I have everything I need inside me to thrive.”

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Living in a topsy turvy world

Living in a topsy turvy world

In one of Roger Hargreaves adorable Mr Men books, we meet ‘Mr Topsy-Turvy’. We learn how, for this unfortunate character, everything is either upside down, inside out or back to front – in fact, it’s always topsy-turvy! As a result, life is very challenging for Mr Topsy-Turvy and everyone around him. He talks backwards; walks ‘up’ the ‘down’ escalator; gets off the wrong side of the train; and generally creates havoc wherever he goes. And to top it off, the poor chap has no idea why he creates such bedlam! For most of my childhood, teens and early adult life, I felt a lot like Mr Topsy-Turvy.

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Interview with Debbie Fisher, iheart senior trainer

Interview with Debbie Fisher, iheart senior trainer

About six years ago I heard Terry Rubenstein, iheart’s founder, speak at a conference in London about how to find resilience in the most challenging situations and I was so impressed. I was a teacher in a school at the time and realised this would be so valuable to be able to teach these concepts to my students. So my involvement goes back to the very beginning in 2016. A group of us realised that it would be very helpful to reach younger people to prevent lots of suffering before they became older. That way, we could be preventative, instead of managing people’s problems as adults.

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