May’s Kooth and Qwell Newsletter for Local Services Durham & Tees Valley
Welcome to May’s Kooth and Qwell Newsletter for local services, informing you of new developments, resources and exciting content coming up this month on Kooth and Qwell.
#MentalHealthAwarenessWeek falls this month (15th-21st), providing the perfect opportunity to talk about the stigma of mental health with children, young people and adults, and the importance of breaking the silence.
Read on to see how you can get involved in our #MHAW2023 campaign, learn about our Qwell resource collections, view our exciting free mental health webinars in May and June, and much more!
Live webinars
For professionals supporting young people and/or adults, we are running free webinars that explain how Kooth and Qwell can offer support:
To view our bank of past webinars focused on topics like ‘HowKooth and Qwell can Support Neurodiverse and SEND Users’, click on this link to our Vimeo account.
Mental Health Awareness Week 2023
This year’s theme for #MHAW is “anxiety”, and we’ve put together lots of new community discussions and content on Kooth to support young people and adults who may be struggling, starting with our ‘What is anxiety and how can we cope’ live forum on 15th May.
We’d really appreciate anything you can do to help us spread the word throughout the week to young people and adults in your local area. Simply use the templates we’ve created in the below guides:
Via email to parents and carers
You can also find some quick and easy guides for promoting Qwell, our service for adults throughout Mental Health Awareness Week below:
Kooth has commissioned its own report into workplace satisfaction and the factors impacting wellbeing, productivity, staff retention, morale and growth.
Click on the link to see what our key research indicated and how Kooth can support the mental health and wellbeing of adults, where they work, live and play!
Why not take some time to explore our resource collections for adults on Qwell?
Our collections consist of carefully selected content focused around a variety of mental wellbeing topics like men’s mental health, the cost of living, exploring neurodiversity and grief and loss.
Free digital resources
Check out our range of FREE digital resources available to all professionals, including information on our upcoming live forums and discussion boards this month on Kooth.
