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Kent schools came together for mental health
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200 children attended Kent County Council's Big Mental Health Conversation exhibit.
Henry Luck reports
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It's a topic that often goes under the radar, but more young people are opening up about it.
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To mark World National Health Day, Kent County Council invited pupils and students
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to Maidstone's Dettling Showground to show them the importance of emotional well-being
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for its third annual big conversation event.
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World Mental Health Day was established in 1992 by Richard Hunter,
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who was the Deputy Security General of the World Federation of Mental Health.
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It has the goal of spreading awareness on the topic of emotional and psychological well-being.
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It's very important because I think young people are especially susceptible
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to vulnerability around mental health, and especially young men and boys don't
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tend to talk about things like this. So to have the ability to all come together
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and really be open about how we find our mental health and what we can do to improve it,
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it's really useful for students and I think it's a great event for them.
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A marketplace with organisers such as MIND were displayed,
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alongside therapy pets and mindfulness workshops.
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Standing behind me is the pony Taffy, and she's serving as a therapy pony
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here at Dettling Showground. Ponies are often used as therapy pets
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because of their calming nature.
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Supporting Kent County Council is the NHS, who have seen more and more young people
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using their services in the past year.
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So we are getting more and more children using our NHS services,
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so it's really important that we work together with other partners to ensure that we are providing
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as many services to as many children as possible.
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Kent County Council's also trying to fund a new therapeutic support service
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to report the current counselling service for children and young people,
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hoping to continue breaking down barriers.
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What we're finding is that there are too many young people for us to offer that service
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in a very sensible way. They're having to wait, and it's a one-to-one counselling service.
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So we're consulting with young people about perhaps offering a slightly different
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service, whereby we're looking at group work, therapeutic work,
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and there'll still be one-to-one counselling, but a much greater spectrum of mental health support.
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Henry Luck for KMTV in Maidstone.
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