Mental Health Education
Our lifelong learning programme
Our Mental Health Education programme starts in primary schools, putting key building blocks in place, teaching pupils the importance of understanding feelings, building confidence & resilience and developing healthy coping tools. This work continues in secondary schools and into the community, providing lifelong mental health education and training.
Our reach
First Steps: Primary Education Programmes
Laying the foundation for emotional resilience, self-awareness, and healthy coping strategies.
Managing Change: Secondary Schools Sessions
Providing tools that can reduce the impact of poor mental health on young people’s development, education and support networks.
Lifelong Learning: Across the Community
Our versatile formats suit a range of learning needs across the community from workplaces to parents, teachers and community groups.
Primary Education Programme
By introducing mental health education at each stage, we can equip pupils with the tools to understand their emotions, build resilience, and support one another. Just as we nurture literacy and numeracy, teaching wellbeing from the start helps create confident, compassionate learners who are better prepared for life both inside and outside the classroom.
Secondary Schools Sessions
Young people experience all sorts of change in their teenage years, including physical, emotional and social shifts, all of which can affect their mental health and wellbeing. Effective mental health education provides tools that can reduce the impact of poor mental health on young people’s development, education and support networks.
Across the community
Each facet of our community has its own mental health challenges. Workplaces are seeing the impact of poor mental health on productivity and retention, front line services and third sector organisations need to adapt for service users who are experiencing poor mental health and teachers are trying to support and educate young people while managing their own wellbeing.
We work across the Manx Community and recognise the unique needs of the Isle of Man, understanding the challenges that being an island community brings, but also celebrating the strengths – how our community supports each other, and how each of us can choose to make a positive impact that then ripples out.
Our education impact
2025/26 Academic year so far
8,397
children & young people interacted with across primary and secondary settings
Between September and Easter
889
primary school sessions delivered to 4,063 primary pupils
Between September and Easter
215
secondary sessions delivered to 4,334 secondary students
Between September and Easter
362
local & international delegates trained on one of our mental health training courses
2,416
children and young people reached in Children’s Mental Health Week 2026
(In addition to existing sessions)
350
students accessed sessions to help them with exam stress
Between September and Easter
176
hours of 1-1 coaching delivered through Enable Potential
as part of the Making Work Worthwhile initiative
3,104
compliments given by year 4s to their peers with ‘compliment ice creams’
Between September and Easter
