{"id":9952,"date":"2022-04-29T14:35:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-29T13:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/?p=9952"},"modified":"2022-05-03T14:48:08","modified_gmt":"2022-05-03T13:48:08","slug":"digital-platform-promotes-mental-wellbeing-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/digital-platform-promotes-mental-wellbeing-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital Platform Promotes Mental Wellbeing Service"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image alignright\"><figure class=\"alignright size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"350\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/kooth-event.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9953\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/kooth-event.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/kooth-event-210x300.jpg 210w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><figcaption>Jennifer Shergill from Kooth chatting to a BES student<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>With the mental health of young people a top priority at Bridgnorth Endowed, a leading digital mental wellbeing service was invited to hold an event in school on Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jennifer Shergill from Kooth West Midlands ran a lunchtime drop-in session to promote the platform to students and explain how Kooth can help to support their mental health and wellbeing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The session offered students the chance to ask questions, pick up a card, and learn more about the service and how to sign up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kooth is a free, safe and anonymous place for 11 to 24-year-olds to find online support and counselling through a range of helpful features and tools.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By signing up, young people can get access to articles and personal stories, discussion boards, one-to-one chats with counsellors, tools to track how they&#8217;re feeling, and much more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mrs Tristham, who heads up the pastoral programme at BES, said: \u201cSince the pandemic, schools across the nation are seeing an increase in students struggling with mental health issues so it&#8217;s essential that we signpost the very best support that\u2019s out there.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cKooth offers a fantastic service to young people and it was hugely beneficial for our students to be able to chat to a member of the team during this week\u2019s event.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the mental health of young people a top priority at Bridgnorth Endowed, a leading digital mental wellbeing service was invited to hold an event in school on Wednesday. Jennifer Shergill from Kooth West Midlands ran a lunchtime drop-in session to promote the platform to students and explain how Kooth can help to support their &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/digital-platform-promotes-mental-wellbeing-service\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Digital Platform Promotes Mental Wellbeing Service&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9961,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74],"tags":[2,153,127,154],"class_list":["post-9952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-school-events","tag-bridgnorth-endowed-school","tag-kooth","tag-pastoral","tag-wellbeing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9952\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}