Name: CITC provides mental health wellbeing sessions for young people
Uploaded: 0001-01-01
Description: City in the Community delivered its first face-to-face mental health workshop this week, as part of its new ‘Cityzens Giving for Recovery’ project.

City in the Community delivered its first face-to-face mental health workshop this week, as part of its new ‘Cityzens Giving for Recovery’ project.

The session, which was arranged during Children’s Mental Health Week, combined wellbeing worksheets with an ‘Emotional Snakes and Ladders’ workshop for students at East Manchester Academy*.

‘Cityzens Giving for Recovery’ embeds a new mental health curriculum into all CITC sessions for people aged 14 to 25, blending specially adapted football sessions with one-to-one mentoring and group workshops on mental health awareness.

Staff have also been trained to help identify, support, and refer potential mental health issues for any participant.

The project has been funded by City Football Group’s ‘Cityzens Giving for Recovery’ initiative, which aims to make a positive difference in response to the COVID-19 pandemic via targeted projects near each of City Football Group’s ten clubs.