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Your mental health matters. This page offers tools and strategies to help you manage stress, build resilience, and navigate challenges. Whether you're looking for ways to cope with daily pressures, strengthen relationships, or boost your confidence, you'll find practical guidance to support your wellbeing. Explore self-care techniques, learn…, Adolescent skills:, Emotion regulation Stress management Mindfulness Problem solving Drug and alcohol knowledge Relationship and friendship skills Assertiveness Understanding who I am  , Key adolescent resources, Adolescent voices, Tips for adolescents, Embedded video follows Embedded video follows Embedded video follows, Social media campaigns for and with adolescents, Social media for adolescents, Magnificent Mei podcast, Change can be overwhelming! Hop on the adventure train with Magnificent Mei as she explores her new town, school and makes new friends. Get helpful tips on how to deal with stress and anxiety as Mei learns to embrace the changes in her life, builds new friendships and learns positive ways to support her mental health. Listen here, Global: #OnMyMind campaign, View this post on Instagram   Opening up about your mental health struggles with someone you trust is a sign of strength. Share what’s on your mind - you don't have to do this alone. Reach out to someone who will listen and support you - together, you can find a way forward. 💙 #OnMyMind #MentalHealthAction @zzurichfoundation, Nigeria: Yes, Girl! Podcast, The ‘Yes! Girl’ Podcast! highlights the voices, stories, aspirations and issues that matter most to adolescent girls while promoting their active participation and leadership. Through 10 episodes, featuring three adolescent hosts and expert guests, the podcast explores themes including healthcare, self-care, confidence, digital inclusion,…, Malaysia: #LoveYourself campaign, #DidYouKnow that self-love means caring for both your body and your mind? It all begins with understanding mental health—our emotional, psychological, and social well-being. Mental health shapes how we think, feel, and act, and it plays a big role in how we handle stress and make decisions. When you #LoveYourself , you realise that mental health…, Zimbabwe: Suicide prevention month campaign, This Suicide Prevention Month, Zimbabwean youth advocates Denzel and Skye Josphats share an important message: talk about mental health and the challenges youth are facing before it's too late., Colombia: JuanDa’s lets talk about mental health campaign [ESP], View this post on Instagram View this post on Instagram, "If someone invalidates your feelings, it doesn’t mean that what you’re feeling isn’t important.", 🤲🏻 In our society, emotions are often labeled as "good" or "bad," when in reality, all emotions are valid and necessary for better understanding ourselves and achieving greater emotional wellbeing. 🙂‍↔️🙂‍↕️, When have you felt that your emotions or feelings were invalidated?, 🤔 #WeDoTalkAboutMentalHealth #EmbraceYourMind, Latin America and the Caribbean: #EnMiMente podcast [ESP], #EnMiMente podcast, Stress, anxiety, grief... We all experience difficult feelings. But sometimes, these can be overwhelming. The good news is that we don't have to face them alone. Mental health experts share practical tips to help us recognize our emotions, find moments of calm, and cope with difficult situations. This is a safe space to help us take care of…

The Caring for the Caregiver (CFC) package trains frontline workers (FLWs) to attend to caregivers’ emotional and practical support, to encourage both family and community strengthening, and to advocate for early child development and gender transformation. It targets all caregivers, and the content of CFC is largely suitable for the needs of…

A presentation by Dr. Joanna Lai, Dr. Faraaz Mahomed, Dr. Sarah Skeen, and Marcy Levy outlining the strategies, tools and approaches to increase knowledge and skills of caregivers and teachers to support adolescent mental well-being. The approach is based on multisectoral collaboration across communities, families and individuals. 

REPSSI seeks to leverage its data to provide insight into what adolescents psychosocial and mental wellbeing looks like across 11 East and Southern Africa countries (Angola, Eswatini, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe). The data enables us to compare and contrast contextual similarities and…

This study engaged with 582 young people, of these 352 were girls, in four countries to understand their insights, experiences, and recommendations, and explore how the resulting findings can be channeled into policy, programming, and professional practice across East Asia and Pacific. The Young and Resilient Research Centre (Y&R) at Western…

Key domains and sub- domains of HAT: Emotion: which encompasses Interventions focusing on emotional regulation, stress management, and mindfulness. Cognition: which encompasses Interventions focusing on problem-solving and drug and alcohol knowledge Social: which encompasses Interventions focusing on Interpersonal skills and assertiveness  

Information on how to promote, talk about and support adolescent mental health and well-being. The guide covers various topics, such as communicating with adolescents, the facilitator–adolescent relationship, the facilitator’s own well-being, and how to help adolescents who need additional mental health support. The guide also includes learning…

This technical brief provides guidance to UNICEF Education staff on mental health and psychosocial support programming in education. It aims to create a shared understanding among education colleagues about mental health and psychosocial support across all settings where UNICEF works – from humanitarian to development contexts. This document…

Adolescents who engage in substance use, including alcohol, cannabis and other substances are at increased risk of violence have higher likelihood of both externalizing (such as aggression, and conduct issues) and internalizing (such as depression, anxiety) problems experiencing injuries unsafe driving4, risky sexual behaviors5 and untimely death…

13- year old Mei and her friends Yasmin, Addo and Pablo are navigating the ups and downs of their first year as official “teens”. Nicknamed “Magnificent Mei” by her grandmother, Mei doesn’t always feel magnificent these days. Living in a world with many twists and turns, Mei and her friends must learn how to deal with their feelings, navigate…

The training is designed for in-person delivery with groups, and the groupenvironment is a critical resource for participants to share knowledge and provide mutual support. However, we envisage that future iterations of the programme could use different delivery methods. The overall aim of the caregiver support workshops is to: Increase knowledge…