Jan 18 - Childline Launches Mental Health Competition
Childline Gibraltar has launched a competition to help raise awareness about mental health issues and emotional difficulties affecting young people in Gibraltar.
Schoolchildren in years 6-11 are being invited to submit either a poem, a photograph, a story or a picture about any mental health topic or indeed mental wellbeing to Childline by 20th January 2017. The idea is to exhibit the winning entries at a presentation ceremony on 8th February 2017 during Children’s Mental Health Week, and eventually collate them into a publication.
The locally-based charity has seen a very significant increase in contacts received from service users concerning a wide variety of issues such as self-harm, anxiety, depression and eating disorders with well over a third of all calls last year concerning a mental health topic.
A spokesperson for Childline said: “We are delighted that the Department for Education is supporting us to promote this competition in local schools. Like the NSPCC in the UK, we are receiving regular reports of mental health issues such as self-harm, even at middle school level, and this is of great concern to us.”
Entries can be submitted via participating schools or directly to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., where further information and full competition rules can also be obtained. If your school has not yet received information about the competition and you would like to take part, please contact us on the above email address or call 200 43503.
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