Growing strong
Action for Children's Growing Strong campaign
highlights the huge impact emotional wellbeing has on young
people's futures.
We want to ensure that every child and young person has the
self-esteem, resilience and social skills they need to succeed in
life. We want the most disadvantaged children in the UK to have the
inner strength to overcome the difficulties they face.
What is emotional wellbeing?
Emotional wellbeing means having the inner
strength, resilience and
self-esteem to cope with life's problems and make
the most of life's opportunities.
We need to talk about:
- why children in the
UK have low emotional wellbeing compared to other
countries in the developed world
- real children,
not stereotypes
- why children make harmful
choices that can affect their future
- why one in 10 children in the UK
has a mental health problem
- why childhood no
longer seems to be a happy and carefree time
We need to listen because time and
time again children tell us they just need someone to talk to
before things go badly wrong.
We are campaigning for:
Children don't grow strong on their
own. We want all children and young people to have:
- support from
families, friends, schools and public services
- opportunities to
talk about their feelings with the people who
influence their lives
- structured
activities that can help them learn and grow
- positive images,
role models and aspirations
Read Action for Children's '10
Steps to Growing Strong'
We will:
- make sure we build children's inner strength
and emotional wellbeing
- develop and promote new ways of building inner
strength and emotional wellbeing for the most vulnerable children
and young people
- increase knowledge of what helps children to
grow strong and put pressure on everyone who can
affect children's lives to put that knowledge into practice
- develop new campaign calls as our research
programme progresses
- campaign for services that reach the most
vulnerable children in time to prevent their problems from
worsening
- work with other charities to build children's
inner strength and wellbeing
- give children and young people a chance to speak
out about what helps them to grow strong
Find out about our Growing Strong successes so
far.
Join us
Together we can improve the
emotional wellbeing of the UK's most vulnerable children:
- register with our
website to receive campaign updates by email
- make a
donation