Schools & young people

VInspired launch ‘Making Time for Your Mind’ campaign with Mindapples

We’re very proud to announce today that Mindapples is supporting a new national campaign by youth volunteering charity VInspired to encourage people all around the UK to take more time for their minds. The campaign, led by VInspired in partnership with Mindapples and our friends at Action for Happiness, uses the Mindapples “5-a-day for your mind” concept […]

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V Inspired's specially-designed Mindapples cards

Mindapples in action: Schools in the US

This autumn Mindapples had its American debut, brought to middle and high school students in Helena, Arkansas. Dan Berstein, mental health advocate and founder of MH Mediate, introduced the concept to 8 classes of students aged between 12 – 18 years during classroom presentations discussing the topic of mental health. Dan presented the mindapples idea […]

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Listening to the young

What is it like to be a young person with mental health issues? Three teenagers who have found it hard to forge their sense of identity as young people with mental health issues. “It is time professionals stopped treating people as disordered statistics, and instead saw us as people. Ordinary humans, who just happen to […]

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