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Friendship and mental health

Talking to friends about your mental health, and supporting a friend who has a mental health problem.

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Shared housing and feelings of isolation at university

Morgan is a current university student who had a difficult time when living in shared university housing. Morgan talks about her experience to reassure you, you are not alone if you are going through similar struggles.

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Relationships: the missing piece of the wellbeing puzzle

Our animation explores relationships as the forgotten foundation of mental health and wellbeing.

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Change, loss and bereavement

We have all been through times of change including, for some, the profound loss felt when someone close to us dies. There are some things we can do to help.

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Peer Education Project (PEP) Overview

The Peer Education Project is a secondary school-based educational programme that aims to give young people the skills and knowledge they need to safeguard their mental health and that of their peers.

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Re:Connect and Time and Space

Re:Connect and Time and Space were unique peer support projects established for mental health carers, matched them with another person who had been through a similar situation.

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Peer Education Project Scotland

The Peer Education Project is a low-cost, evidence-based and effective approach to addressing the challenges children and young people are facing with their mental health and well-being.

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Digital peer support for people with Long Covid

The Mental Health Foundation and Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board took peer support online to support people with Long Covid in North Wales.

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Power of mentorship in feeling connected to university

Shannon began her university studies during the Covid pandemic. This had a large impact on her feeling connected to the university and her peers. In this piece Shannon writes about how creating a mentorship network helped her feel connected and empowered to others.

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Peer Education Project (PEP) - Wales

The Peer Education Project is a school-based programme that aims to give young people the skills and knowledge they need to safeguard their mental health and that of their peers.

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