Dorset Mind has been awarded sizeable funding from the National Lottery to help expand their support programme for young people’s mental health across Dorset. The charity will receive the grant over three years. This will enable them to roll-out its programme to nine middle schools and eighteen secondary schools. In addition, they will deliver a range of support groups and train ambassadors to raise awareness amongst their peers.
The ‘Dorset Mind Your Head’ programme is a whole-school approach to mental health support. This means that the charity not only supports and educates the students – they help increase the parents’ and teachers’ understanding of mental health. They are then also able to support their students’ emotional mental health and wellbeing.
In total, the charity aims to help 19,500 young people, 3,300 parents and 5,700 staff in schools; and an additional 648 young people at other community-based support groups as part of the ‘Connected Minds’ programme.
