Children's Mental Health week 2025: What is the week about?

This year Children's Mental Health Week takes place from 3 February - 9 February.

Every year, for the past 11 years, the week is organised and run by the children's mental health charity Place2Be.

It is all about helping young people speak up and feel empowered to talk about mental health.

Each year the week has a theme, and this years is 'Know yourself, Grow yourself' and is all about encouraging you to build self awareness.

What is Children's Mental Health Week?

The first ever Children's Mental Health Week took place in 2015 and was launched to shine a spotlight on the importance of children and young people's mental health.

The week was designed to encourage more people to start talking, spread the word and raise money to help fund services to support children's mental health.

As well as to make sure anyone struggling knew they were not alone.

Across the UK lots of schools and communities get involved and hold special events or assemblies to mark the week. Maybe your school is doing something?

What does the 2025 theme 'Know yourself, Grow yourself' mean?

Place 2 Be have linked up with Disney's Inside Out 2 this year

"Know Yourself, Grow Yourself" is all about how we can build and grow our resilience by understanding ourselves and recognising our emotions.

By understanding who we are, we can find out what makes us feel happy, or sad, or anxious, or scared - or maybe all of them at once!

The charity have linked up with the well known movie Inside Out 2 this year.

The Inside Out 2 characters can help you understand how different emotions might make you feel.

What is Mental Health?

Mental health describes our emotional, psychological, and social wellbeing.

Everyone has mental health - it effects how you feel and think, and sometimes how you act and cope with things going on in your life.

It is completely normal for us all to feel all sorts of emotions. We all feel sad, angry or worried sometimes.

But when those feelings won't go away and they start to really affect day-to-day life, that is when there might be a problem.

Some people can experience mental health problems, which can massively affect their thinking, mood, and behaviour.

Mental Health:

What is a mental health problem?

Inside My Head: What is anxiety disorder?

What is depression?

What is anxiety?

Why is it hard to talk about mental health problems?

Mental Health reports

Advice if you are worried about talking about mental health problems

If you are worried about your mental health or are finding it difficult to talk about how you are feeling, there is lots of support out there.

The first thing you should do is speak to an adult that you trust about it. That might be a parent or family member, a family friend or even a teacher at school.

If you're not sure who you would like to talk to, ring Childline on 0800 1111 who will be able to help you with how you are feeling, or visit www.childline.org.uk, external.